WAN Contracts in Northamptonshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.95% 0.39% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.69% 7.69% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £334 - £197
25th Percentile £356 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% +33.33% -27.71%
75th Percentile £446 - £388
90th Percentile £471 - £448
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £543 £350
% change year-on-year -7.83% +55.00% -6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 13 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 12.32% 5.04% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 23
10th Percentile £302 £451 £198
25th Percentile £358 £472 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +53.85% -26.97%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £471
90th Percentile £583 £586 £552
East Midlands median daily rate £442 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -11.68% +11.06% +15.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.86%
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £21.48
% change year-on-year -3.22% -33.57% +14.39%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Northamptonshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Northamptonshire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Northamptonshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Northamptonshire

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Northampton -4 1 £475 -5.00% 37
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Support Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) VMware