WAN Contracts in London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 181 196
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 +63
Contract jobs citing WAN 162 230 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.29% 1.29% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.32% 13.38% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 156 210
10th Percentile £278 £231 £249
25th Percentile £425 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.25% +2.82%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £650
90th Percentile £675 £775 £800
England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £50.38 - £29.00
25th Percentile £50.94 £16.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £20.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.43% -68.85% +51.16%
75th Percentile £58.44 £24.00 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £24.45 -
England median hourly rate £53.75 £24.69 £60.00
% change year-on-year +117.74% -58.86% +130.77%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in London

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in London

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in London

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 -10 19 £549 +15.47% 19
West London +20 13 £413 +47.32% 4
East London +14 7 £550 -2.22%
South London +11 6 £600 +33.33%
WAN
England

WAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.62%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (37.65%) Azure
2 40 (24.69%) AWS
3 20 (12.35%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (3.70%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.47%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.23%) SaaS
11 1 (0.62%) Akamai
11 1 (0.62%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.62%) GCP
11 1 (0.62%) GitHub
11 1 (0.62%) IaaS
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.62%) OCI
11 1 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (59.88%) Firewall
2 86 (53.09%) LAN
3 70 (43.21%) SD-WAN
3 70 (43.21%) VPN
4 51 (31.48%) Network Security
5 46 (28.40%) BGP
6 41 (25.31%) MPLS
7 36 (22.22%) Wireless
8 34 (20.99%) OSPF
9 31 (19.14%) DNS
10 27 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (11.73%) DHCP
11 19 (11.73%) TCP/IP
11 19 (11.73%) VLAN
12 17 (10.49%) IPsec
13 15 (9.26%) EIGRP
14 14 (8.64%) Internet
15 13 (8.02%) WLAN
16 10 (6.17%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (6.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (3.09%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) Git
4 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 34 (20.99%) Finance
1 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.32%) Banking
3 7 (4.32%) Legal
3 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.09%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.47%) Retail
7 3 (1.85%) Games
7 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Electronics
8 2 (1.23%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Local Government
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Back Office
9 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (32.10%) Network Engineer
2 24 (14.81%) Architect
3 21 (12.96%) Senior
4 15 (9.26%) Network Architect
5 12 (7.41%) Consultant
6 10 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.17%) WAN Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Lead
7 9 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Security Architect
8 8 (4.94%) Security Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) WAN Specialist
9 7 (4.32%) Network Consultant
9 7 (4.32%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Implementation Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Network Specialist
11 5 (3.09%) WAN Consultant
12 4 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.09%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.85%) JSON
3 2 (1.23%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.23%) RESTful
4 1 (0.62%) ADO
4 1 (0.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.43%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.85%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.23%) Anti-Spyware
6 2 (1.23%) CMDB
6 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.23%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 1 (0.62%) e-Health
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.62%) EPoS
7 1 (0.62%) PKI
7 1 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.81%) Windows
2 11 (6.79%) Linux
3 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.85%) Unix
4 3 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.23%) Android
6 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.20%) Network Monitoring
1 23 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (11.11%) High Availability
3 16 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (8.64%) Migration
5 13 (8.02%) ITIL
5 13 (8.02%) Network Architecture
6 12 (7.41%) Network Design
6 12 (7.41%) Network Management
7 11 (6.79%) Agile
7 11 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (6.17%) Change Management
8 10 (6.17%) Project Management
8 10 (6.17%) Security Architecture
9 9 (5.56%) Customer Service
9 9 (5.56%) Roadmaps
9 9 (5.56%) Runbook
9 9 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (4.94%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.73%) Python
2 11 (6.79%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.85%) SQL
4 2 (1.23%) Bicep
4 2 (1.23%) Perl
5 1 (0.62%) Bash
Qualifications
1 38 (23.46%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (18.52%) CCNP
3 21 (12.96%) CCNA
4 20 (12.35%) Security Cleared
5 15 (9.26%) Degree
5 15 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.56%) CCSA
7 8 (4.94%) CCIE
8 7 (4.32%) JNCIA
9 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.09%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.85%) CCSE
10 3 (1.85%) CISA
10 3 (1.85%) CISM
11 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.32%) SLA
2 4 (2.47%) GRC
2 4 (2.47%) NIST
2 4 (2.47%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) DICOM
3 2 (1.23%) HL7
3 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.62%) GDPR
4 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (14.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.47%) Firmware
5 3 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.62%) Docker
6 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (14.81%) Terraform
2 18 (11.11%) Ansible
3 16 (9.88%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.32%) SCCM
5 4 (2.47%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (2.47%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (1.23%) AppManager
7 2 (1.23%) CASB
7 2 (1.23%) Nagios
7 2 (1.23%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (0.62%) Icinga
8 1 (0.62%) Netcool
8 1 (0.62%) OpenView
8 1 (0.62%) OPNET
8 1 (0.62%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.62%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 75 (46.30%) Cisco
2 40 (24.69%) Palo Alto
3 36 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 35 (21.60%) Fortinet
5 25 (15.43%) Juniper
6 23 (14.20%) CheckPoint
7 20 (12.35%) F5
8 18 (11.11%) Meraki
9 17 (10.49%) SolarWinds
10 13 (8.02%) Arista
11 11 (6.79%) Aruba
11 11 (6.79%) VMware
12 5 (3.09%) Infoblox
13 4 (2.47%) Zscaler
14 3 (1.85%) Dell
14 3 (1.85%) Forcepoint
14 3 (1.85%) Mitel
14 3 (1.85%) Ruckus Wireless
15 2 (1.23%) IBM
15 2 (1.23%) McAfee