WAN Contract Job Trends in Newport

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing WAN 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 2.22% - 3.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% - 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile - - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.97%
75th Percentile - - £578
90th Percentile - - £614
South Wales median daily rate £293 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -49.13% +43.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £82.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 22 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 11.11% 28.95% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile - £150 £293
25th Percentile £525 £185 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £220 £550
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -60.00% -1.79%
75th Percentile £575 £324 £600
90th Percentile - £373 £615
South Wales median daily rate £290 £300 £340
% change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £83.25 £39.25 -
25th Percentile £84.38 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% - -
75th Percentile £89.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £89.75 £54.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +68.42% - -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Newport

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware