WAN Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 3.28% - 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £633 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £475 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 18.03% 8.51% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £194 - -
25th Percentile £350 £206 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £213 £278
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -23.42% -38.33%
75th Percentile £525 £219 £416
90th Percentile £563 - £466
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £213 £375
% change year-on-year +100.00% -43.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.72 £20.85 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.44 £21.90 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.73% -43.85% -
75th Percentile £27.16 £22.95 £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £26.44 £21.90 £48.75
% change year-on-year +20.73% -55.08% -0.51%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Oxford

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Oxford over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Oxford

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TETRA
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto