WAN Contract Job Trends in Heathrow

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Hillingdon > Heathrow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Heathrow requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Heathrow 20.00% 8.70% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £177 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.33% - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £450 £177 -
% change year-on-year +153.71% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Heathrow

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 Heathrow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow 40.00% 47.83% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile - £172 -
25th Percentile - £184 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £240 £388
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -38.14% -
75th Percentile - - £424
90th Percentile - £262 £455
Hillingdon median daily rate £425 £240 £228
% change year-on-year +77.08% +5.26% -46.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Heathrow

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Heathrow

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Daily Rate Trend in Heathrow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing WAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Heathrow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Telnet
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable