WAN Specialist Contracts in London

Wide Area Network Specialist (WAN Specialist)
England > London

The median Wide Area Network Specialist (WAN Specialist) daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 389 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Contract jobs requiring a WAN Specialist 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.011% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £479 £551 -
25th Percentile £488 £609 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £713 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.07% - -
75th Percentile £641 £809 -
90th Percentile £750 £864 -
England median daily rate £513 £713 -
% change year-on-year -28.07% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

WAN Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured WAN Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Specialist in London

WAN Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WAN Specialist in London

WAN Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN Specialist in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN Specialist in London

WAN Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, WAN Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring WAN Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) WAN
2 7 (87.50%) MPLS
2 7 (87.50%) BGP
3 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (75.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 5 (62.50%) FortiGate
4 5 (62.50%) OSPF
4 5 (62.50%) VPN
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) IPsec
6 3 (37.50%) Analytics
6 3 (37.50%) Network Security
7 2 (25.00%) VPLS
7 2 (25.00%) Network Management
7 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (25.00%) Multicast
7 2 (25.00%) IGMP
7 2 (25.00%) Network Design
7 2 (25.00%) CCIE
7 2 (25.00%) CCNP
7 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
7 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
7 2 (25.00%) Terraform
7 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

WAN Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
2 7 (87.50%) BGP
2 7 (87.50%) MPLS
3 6 (75.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (62.50%) OSPF
4 5 (62.50%) VPN
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) IPsec
6 3 (37.50%) Network Security
7 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
7 2 (25.00%) IGMP
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
7 2 (25.00%) Multicast
7 2 (25.00%) VPLS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCIE
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Fortinet