WAN Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 56 75
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.52% 1.74% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.70% 19.05% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £447 £363 £294
25th Percentile £456 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £444 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% +10.94% -11.11%
75th Percentile £496 £503 £475
90th Percentile £506 £526 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £458 £425 £388
% change year-on-year +7.71% +9.68% -18.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 63 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 11.08% 9.13% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 37 90
10th Percentile £235 £244 £274
25th Percentile £371 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £503 £575 £584
90th Percentile £542 £650 £676
West Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £13.87 £17.64
% change year-on-year +260.49% -21.37% -64.72%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Leeds

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (80.00%) Ethernet
4 5 (50.00%) Firewall
5 4 (40.00%) Wireless
6 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (10.00%) BGP
8 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
8 1 (10.00%) LAN
8 1 (10.00%) Network Security
8 1 (10.00%) OSPF
8 1 (10.00%) VLAN
8 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (90.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 9 (90.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (30.00%) F5
4 3 (30.00%) LogicMonitor