WAN Contracts in Reading

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 71 60
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing WAN 5 20 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 1.68% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.81% 8.13% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £260 - £425
25th Percentile £275 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £419 £688 £538
90th Percentile £490 £736 £570
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £76.99 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.65% +153.85%
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -74.15% +11.36% +45.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Procurement Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Presales
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCDA
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Aruba
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) HP