WAN Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 1.60% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £232 - -
25th Percentile £272 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 - -
75th Percentile £445 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £275 £240 £375
% change year-on-year +14.58% -36.00% +7.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 9.63% 3.92% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £319 - £821
25th Percentile £433 - £821
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £823
Median % change year-on-year - - +99.39%
75th Percentile £503 - £824
90th Percentile £625 - £825
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £416 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -16.83% +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £51.43 - -
25th Percentile £72.75 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £48.56
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.75 £20.83 £19.24
% change year-on-year +23.62% +8.29% -8.40%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Lincolnshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Lincolnshire over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Lincolnshire

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
Lincoln - 2 £352 - 3
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Information Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) MCSA
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds