WAN Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 17 7
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 -
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 1.51% 2.30% 6.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.00% 25.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £675
75th Percentile - - £688
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £375 £306 £555
% change year-on-year +22.45% -44.82% +58.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.94 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £30.00 £15.76
% change year-on-year -41.67% +90.36% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 5.03% 9.20% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £285 - £198
25th Percentile £359 - £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £285
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.57%
75th Percentile £522 - £308
90th Percentile £651 - £536
East of England median daily rate £495 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.97 -
Median hourly rate - £13.94 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.30% -
75th Percentile - £17.83 £20.14
90th Percentile - £19.58 £20.39
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £44.28
% change year-on-year +4.84% +40.02% -31.88%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Norfolk

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
Norwich -2 1 £400 - 3
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Presales Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Presales Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Social Media
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2B
1 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Presales
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Discovery
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Packer
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro