WAN Contracts in Hampshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 51 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +35
Contract jobs citing WAN 18 63 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.41% 3.91% 5.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 14.00% 25.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 47
10th Percentile £396 £375 £274
25th Percentile £420 £397 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £494 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +9.72% +4.05%
75th Percentile £578 £579 £550
90th Percentile £659 £650 £593
South East median daily rate £450 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £32.49
25th Percentile - - £47.81
Median hourly rate - £67.02 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.87% +28.42%
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £67.02 £62.00
% change year-on-year -71.65% +8.10% +249.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 162 450 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.72% 27.95% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 162 162
10th Percentile £325 £266 £228
25th Percentile £456 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £694
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 73 38
10th Percentile £51.49 £17.69 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.09 £51.06 £42.44
Median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.30 £69.69
90th Percentile £69.38 £62.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Hampshire 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
Havant +4 4 £600 -16.08%
Portsmouth +13 3 £475 -13.24% 7
Basingstoke +7 2 £413 -28.26% 3
Eastleigh -2 2 £500 +42.86% 1
Winchester +3 1 £525 - 1
Southampton -2 1 £463 +8.82% 4
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Cloudflare
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) LAN
1 10 (55.56%) VPN
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) Wireless
4 4 (22.22%) MPLS
4 4 (22.22%) Network Security
5 3 (16.67%) BGP
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
5 3 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (16.67%) OSPF
5 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Network Architecture
2 4 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
2 4 (22.22%) Network Design
2 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 4 (22.22%) Service Design
2 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (11.11%) API Management
4 2 (11.11%) Application Packaging
4 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) CCNP
3 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (27.78%) CCIE
5 3 (16.67%) CCNA
5 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
2 4 (22.22%) Citrix
2 4 (22.22%) F5
2 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 4 (22.22%) Juniper
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 4 (22.22%) Zscaler
3 3 (16.67%) Mellanox
3 3 (16.67%) NVIDIA
4 2 (11.11%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) VMware