WAN Contract Job Trends in Luton

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 2.96% 7.06% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 60.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £156 £499 -
25th Percentile £248 £515 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £555 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.93% - -
75th Percentile - £574 -
90th Percentile - £579 -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £400 £528 £325
% change year-on-year -24.17% +62.31% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £103.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 10.37% 11.76% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £63 £498 £301
25th Percentile £110 £513 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +10.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £400 £568 £556
90th Percentile £695 £576 £616
Bedfordshire median daily rate £375 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £82.05 - -
25th Percentile £85.13 - -
Median hourly rate £91.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.00% - -
75th Percentile £99.13 - -
90th Percentile £102.95 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £91.50 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +205.00% -42.86% +237.40%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Luton

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Luton over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Luton

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat