WAN Contracts in Gloucestershire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 0
Contract jobs citing WAN 7 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.65% 4.55% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.86% 25.00% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 8
10th Percentile £362 £299 £243
25th Percentile £386 £359 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £331
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +32.83% -5.36%
75th Percentile £725 £471 £497
90th Percentile - £533 £545
South West median daily rate £650 £488 £370
% change year-on-year +33.33% +31.76% -1.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 88 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.95% 18.18% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 68 61
10th Percentile £332 £296 £255
25th Percentile £475 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% +1.11% -
75th Percentile £660 £600 £575
90th Percentile £776 £700 £588
South West median daily rate £535 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.04%
75th Percentile £19.13 - -
90th Percentile £21.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +8.73%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Gloucestershire

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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 3 May 2024. 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
Cheltenham +8 6 £550 +37.50%
Gloucester +7 1 - - 1
WAN
South West

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) WLAN
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
General
1 1 (14.29%) Police
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Network Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Auditor
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CMDB
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Technology
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
4 1 (14.29%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto