WAN Contract Job Trends in London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 191 200
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 -19
Contract jobs citing WAN 211 170 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.39% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.25% 13.46% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 112 139
10th Percentile £350 £314 £198
25th Percentile £405 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £620 £591 £613
90th Percentile £738 £675 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £28.75 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £36.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £77.50 £40.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.75% +135.29% -73.85%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £20.88
90th Percentile - £56.75 £22.60
England median hourly rate £22.50 £33.75 £24.87
% change year-on-year -33.33% +35.71% -56.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,481 1,263 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.96% 10.33% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 813 1,122
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £710 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.38%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +134.40%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

WAN job vacancy trend in London

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in London

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Central London -13 28 £410 -24.49% 13
West London -24 5 £450 +9.09% 5
East London -9 3 £600 +2.56% 2
South London -18 1 £600 +33.33% 1
WAN
England

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.84%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.44%) Azure
2 36 (17.06%) AWS
3 25 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (9.48%) GCP
5 14 (6.64%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.64%) SaaS
6 11 (5.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.84%) PaaS
9 5 (2.37%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.37%) GitHub
9 5 (2.37%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.90%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.42%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 114 (54.03%) LAN
2 106 (50.24%) Firewall
3 76 (36.02%) SD-WAN
4 70 (33.18%) BGP
5 57 (27.01%) VPN
6 50 (23.70%) Network Security
7 44 (20.85%) OSPF
8 35 (16.59%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (11.85%) MPLS
10 24 (11.37%) DNS
11 21 (9.95%) Multicast
12 20 (9.48%) VXLAN
13 19 (9.00%) VLAN
14 18 (8.53%) Cisco IOS
15 17 (8.06%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (6.64%) EIGRP
17 13 (6.16%) DHCP
17 13 (6.16%) NX-OS
17 13 (6.16%) Wireless
18 12 (5.69%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.95%) Flink
1 2 (0.95%) InfluxDB
1 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
1 2 (0.95%) MySQL
1 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (0.47%) Power BI
2 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.79%) Git
2 6 (2.84%) JIRA
3 2 (0.95%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (16.59%) Finance
2 34 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.95%) Legal
4 17 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.16%) Financial Institution
6 12 (5.69%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.79%) Military
9 7 (3.32%) Law
9 7 (3.32%) Retail
10 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.42%) Local Government
12 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.95%) Banking
13 2 (0.95%) Billing
13 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (31.28%) Network Engineer
2 45 (21.33%) Architect
3 28 (13.27%) Senior
4 27 (12.80%) Network Architect
5 13 (6.16%) Operations Engineer
5 13 (6.16%) Security Engineer
6 12 (5.69%) Lead
7 11 (5.21%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.79%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (3.79%) Cisco Engineer
9 8 (3.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 8 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.32%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Network Security Architect
11 6 (2.84%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.84%) Security Architect
12 5 (2.37%) Network Manager
12 5 (2.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.90%) Jinja
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (1.90%) REST
2 3 (1.42%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.95%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.95%) CSS
3 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.95%) gRPC
3 2 (0.95%) HTML
3 2 (0.95%) Kafka
3 2 (0.95%) OpenAPI
3 2 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.95%) Swagger
4 1 (0.47%) Django
4 1 (0.47%) EDI
4 1 (0.47%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.47%) SAML
4 1 (0.47%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (32.23%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.32%) IoT
4 5 (2.37%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.37%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.42%) CCTV
6 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.42%) SCADA
7 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.95%) PKI
7 2 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.47%) CMDB
8 1 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.43%) Windows
2 20 (9.48%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.74%) Linux
4 8 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.42%) Android
5 3 (1.42%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.95%) VMS
6 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.17%) ITIL
2 28 (13.27%) Agile
3 26 (12.32%) Zero Trust
4 25 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (10.43%) Mentoring
7 21 (9.95%) Migration
8 18 (8.53%) Network Design
9 17 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (7.58%) High Availability
10 16 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (7.11%) Change Management
11 15 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.11%) DevOps
11 15 (7.11%) Load Balancing
12 14 (6.64%) CI/CD
12 14 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (6.64%) Network Architecture
13 13 (6.16%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.91%) Python
2 24 (11.37%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.27%) Bash
4 6 (2.84%) SQL
5 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.95%) C++
6 2 (0.95%) Java
7 1 (0.47%) C
7 1 (0.47%) Groovy
7 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (25.59%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (23.22%) CCNP
3 36 (17.06%) Security Cleared
4 29 (13.74%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.58%) CCIE
6 13 (6.16%) Degree
7 7 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.32%) CCNA
7 7 (3.32%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.32%) PMP
8 6 (2.84%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.37%) CCSE
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.42%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.95%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.95%) Project+ Certification
13 1 (0.47%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.27%) QA
2 7 (3.32%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.90%) NIST
4 3 (1.42%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.95%) PMO
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (13.74%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.32%) vSphere
5 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.95%) Firmware
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.47%) Squid
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (16.59%) Terraform
2 30 (14.22%) Ansible
3 23 (10.90%) FortiGate
4 20 (9.48%) Grafana
5 19 (9.00%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.90%) SCCM
8 4 (1.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (1.42%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
11 1 (0.47%) Salt
11 1 (0.47%) SCOM
11 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (52.13%) Cisco
2 64 (30.33%) Palo Alto
3 38 (18.01%) Microsoft
4 35 (16.59%) Fortinet
5 33 (15.64%) Arista
6 26 (12.32%) CheckPoint
7 23 (10.90%) Aruba
7 23 (10.90%) F5
7 23 (10.90%) Zscaler
8 20 (9.48%) VMware
9 18 (8.53%) Juniper
10 9 (4.27%) ServiceNow
10 9 (4.27%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.79%) Dell
12 7 (3.32%) Meraki
13 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.90%) Oracle
14 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
14 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.95%) SAP