WAN Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 32 53
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.87% 2.87% 1.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.68% 14.89% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £413 £293 £362
25th Percentile £431 £300 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +25.00%
75th Percentile £531 £525 £725
90th Percentile £558 - -
South West median daily rate £565 £431 £650
% change year-on-year +31.01% -33.65% +40.54%

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 31 47 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.01% 19.26% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 35
10th Percentile - £222 £326
25th Percentile £205 £300 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -39.56% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £638
90th Percentile £618 £775 £720
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.92%
75th Percentile £12.69 - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £19.13
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £41.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.95% +3.49% +308.16%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

WAN job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Gloucestershire

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing WAN

WAN
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 15 June 2026. 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 2 £400 +35.59% 1
WAN
South West

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Manager
1 1 (33.33%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) NetScout
2 1 (33.33%) VMware