WAN Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 6 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 2.13% 15.04% 6.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 44.74% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £322 £338
25th Percentile £425 £360 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £424 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% +28.57%
75th Percentile £475 £487 £500
90th Percentile - £525 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £393 £271 £500
% change year-on-year +44.70% -45.75% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 10.64% 33.63% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 21
10th Percentile £369 £153 £181
25th Percentile £378 £178 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £210 £400
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% -47.50% -
75th Percentile £453 £275 £500
90th Percentile £466 £287 £569
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +13.61% -6.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £22.00
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £35.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +2.33%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Harrogate -3 1 £450 +51.26% 1
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE Data Center
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam