WAN Contracts in Gloucestershire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 49 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing WAN 6 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.19% 2.10% 4.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 14.52% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £300 £373 £289
25th Percentile £344 £469 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £440
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +59.09% +25.71%
75th Percentile £525 £734 £478
90th Percentile - £750 £541
South West median daily rate £500 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -23.08% +33.33% +14.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 54 62 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.71% 14.45% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 68
10th Percentile £300 £342 £296
25th Percentile £494 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +25.00% +2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £694 £600
90th Percentile £730 £776 £700
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Gloucestershire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for WAN in Gloucestershire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Gloucestershire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Filton - 2 £300 -
Gloucester -1 1 £500 -31.03% 5
WAN
South West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) BGP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) FireEye
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Symantec