WAN Contracts in Kent

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 19 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.90% 2.97% 3.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 21.43% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £416 - £225
25th Percentile £422 £203 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £205 £313
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% -34.40% +7.76%
75th Percentile £447 £254 £338
90th Percentile £449 £338 £378
South East median daily rate £450 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 28 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 26.67% 13.86% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 24
10th Percentile £160 £203 £265
25th Percentile £200 £328 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +1.49% +34.00%
75th Percentile £450 £518 £758
90th Percentile £615 £538 £831
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Kent

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Kent

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Kent

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Kent 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
Maidstone - 1 £450 - 3
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Structured Cabling
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Aruba
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto