WAN Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 27 41
Rank change year-on-year -54 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.41% 5.11% 3.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.94% 21.54% 46.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £526 £209 £256
25th Percentile £547 £209 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £217 £593
Median % change year-on-year +170.51% -63.38% +7.82%
75th Percentile £622 £225 £635
90th Percentile £639 - £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £588 £217 £593
% change year-on-year +170.51% -63.38% +7.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 102 65 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.90% 23.72% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 26
10th Percentile £399 £209 £225
25th Percentile £458 £220 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £388 £430
Median % change year-on-year +34.65% -9.88% -18.10%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £614
90th Percentile £700 £697 £663
South Yorkshire median daily rate £522 £500 £430
% change year-on-year +4.35% +16.28% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing WAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Sheffield over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) FCoE
3 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) MVS
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) SRDF
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) ForeScout
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
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