WAN Contracts in Leicestershire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 28 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 2.55% 3.85% 4.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 35.00% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £521 - £185
25th Percentile £534 - £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £250 £395
Median % change year-on-year +124.00% -36.71% +13.67%
75th Percentile £658 - £450
90th Percentile £713 £344 -
East Midlands median daily rate £630 £315 £350
% change year-on-year +100.00% -10.00% -13.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leicestershire

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 20 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 16.56% 10.99% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 23
10th Percentile £224 £229 £187
25th Percentile £438 £250 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £334 £375
Median % change year-on-year +66.29% -11.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £388 £450
90th Percentile £656 £413 £519
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £434 £360
% change year-on-year +15.34% +20.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £14.82
Median % change year-on-year - - -65.13%
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.27 £22.26 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.89% +11.30% +33.33%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Leicestershire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Leicestershire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Leicestershire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Leicestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Leicester +8 3 £560 +31.76% 3
Loughborough - 1 - -
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki