WAN Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 32 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing WAN 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.09% 4.13% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.64% 29.03% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £433 £313
25th Percentile £513 £506 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +16.32% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £519
90th Percentile - £630 £538
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £574 £475
% change year-on-year -8.50% +20.79% -3.80%

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 47 31 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.28% 14.22% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 19 81
10th Percentile £130 £257 £356
25th Percentile £513 £476 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £630 £550
90th Percentile £642 £656 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £552 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +1.24% +3.81% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £34.69
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +45.45%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing WAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) IPv6
5 1 (20.00%) Multicast
5 1 (20.00%) SNMP
5 1 (20.00%) VoIP
5 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CCDA
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCIP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Arista
4 1 (20.00%) Aruba
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Meraki
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) VMware