WAN Contracts in Milton Keynes

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 25 41 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing WAN 6 3 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.47% 0.77% 3.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.00% 3.61% 30.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 25
10th Percentile £413 £303 -
25th Percentile £486 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -11.56% +134.42%
75th Percentile £622 £494 £556
90th Percentile £630 £528 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £583 £425 £481
% change year-on-year +37.06% -11.56% +134.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 83 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.56% 21.28% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 63 78
10th Percentile £309 £366 £410
25th Percentile £476 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £630 £585 £555
90th Percentile £674 £825 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.75 -
% change year-on-year -40.21% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) NGFW
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) VSAN
5 1 (16.67%) Network Security
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Adaptive Security
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Palo Alto
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint