WAN Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring WAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.90% 1.48% 2.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 8.91% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £233 £533 -
25th Percentile £281 £544 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £275
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +109.09% -38.89%
75th Percentile £574 £594 £283
90th Percentile £686 £598 £450
East of England median daily rate £238 £559 £350
% change year-on-year -57.49% +59.64% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -77.93% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 88 101 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 19.73% 16.58% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 87
10th Percentile £253 £292 £269
25th Percentile £463 £406 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £698 £586 £738
East of England median daily rate £538 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +30.30% -8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 41
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £79.45 £65.75 £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £49.28 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.61% -24.18% +30.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Hertfordshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Hertfordshire

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Watford +6 1 - - 3
St Albans 0 1 £760 -
Hoddesdon - 1 £200 - 1
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Document Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Network Management
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Huawei
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow