WAN Contracts in Reading

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 60 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing WAN 20 27 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 2.59% 3.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.20% 14.67% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 24
10th Percentile - £425 £366
25th Percentile - £438 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £688 £538 £618
90th Percentile £736 £570 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £480 £498
% change year-on-year +9.38% -3.52% +31.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £76.99 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.65% +153.85% -41.90%
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% +45.05% +65.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 184 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.49% 17.68% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 115
10th Percentile £205 £337 £164
25th Percentile £335 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £602
90th Percentile - £718 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £486 £467
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%

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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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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) Firewall
1 16 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (20.00%) MPLS
2 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) VoIP
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (10.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) ADSL
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) DSL
4 1 (5.00%) GGSN
4 1 (5.00%) GSM
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) LTE
4 1 (5.00%) SDH
4 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Information
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Information Security
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Operations
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Security
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Network Support
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Support
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Real Time Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Availability Management
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Line Management
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security
4 2 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (10.00%) Service Design
4 2 (10.00%) SIEM
4 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CCIE
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (10.00%) Nessus
1 2 (10.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Juniper
3 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler