WAN Contract Job Trends in Norwich

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Norfolk > Norwich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norwich 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 17 15 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 -
Contract jobs citing WAN 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Norwich 0.84% 3.51% 10.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 28.57% 57.14%
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 - - -
Norfolk median daily rate £400 - £675
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.94 -
Norfolk median hourly rate - £13.94 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Norwich

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 Norwich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norwich 4.20% 12.28% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £268 - £228
25th Percentile £318 - £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £290
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.50%
75th Percentile £425 - £403
90th Percentile £440 - £574
Norfolk median daily rate £425 - £285
% change year-on-year - - -18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.94 -
Norfolk median hourly rate - £13.94 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -30.30% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Norwich

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Norwich

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Norwich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norwich citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Norwich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norwich citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norwich 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
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%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro