WAN Contracts in the South West

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 77 76
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing WAN 31 86 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.74% 2.61% 2.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.02% 15.52% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 60 69
10th Percentile £206 £469 £293
25th Percentile £300 £525 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +40.54% +16.35%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £615
90th Percentile £653 £726 £740
England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 6
10th Percentile - - £57.33
25th Percentile - - £60.81
Median hourly rate £11.91 £40.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.23% -52.94% +57.41%
75th Percentile - £74.06 £101.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £101.88
England median hourly rate £30.00 £24.87 £57.33
% change year-on-year +20.63% -56.62% +120.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 258 554 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.48% 16.83% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 355 338
10th Percentile £235 £300 £245
25th Percentile £383 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +12.18%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
England median daily rate £493 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 44 95
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.58 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.46%
75th Percentile £41.40 £71.56 £62.00
90th Percentile £55.56 £75.00 £77.65
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the South West.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +2 14 £450 -25.00% 10
Gloucestershire +28 7 £400 -27.27% 22
Wiltshire +1 3 £463 -28.85% 11
Dorset 0 3 £205 -70.71% 5
Somerset -3 3 £613 +25.64% 12
Devon +8 1 - - 22
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (16.13%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (90.32%) LAN
2 17 (54.84%) Firewall
3 10 (32.26%) VPN
4 9 (29.03%) DNS
5 8 (25.81%) BGP
6 7 (22.58%) VLAN
7 6 (19.35%) DHCP
7 6 (19.35%) VoIP
7 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (16.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (16.13%) Network Security
8 5 (16.13%) OSPF
9 3 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (9.68%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (9.68%) SAN
9 3 (9.68%) SD-WAN
9 3 (9.68%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (9.68%) Wireless
9 3 (9.68%) WLAN
10 2 (6.45%) MPLS
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Military
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Architect
2 8 (25.81%) Network Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Network Technical Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Technical Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Support
5 2 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Support
6 1 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Raspberry Pi
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Windows 10
3 3 (9.68%) Android
3 3 (9.68%) Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Mac OS
3 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Network Architecture
2 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
3 4 (12.90%) ITIL
3 4 (12.90%) ITSM
4 3 (9.68%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
4 3 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.45%) Budget Management
5 2 (6.45%) Business Development
5 2 (6.45%) Decision-Making
5 2 (6.45%) IT Governance
5 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
5 2 (6.45%) Server Management
5 2 (6.45%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (6.45%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (6.45%) Supplier Management
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) DV Cleared
4 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
5 4 (12.90%) CCNP
6 3 (9.68%) CCIE
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.45%) CCNA
7 2 (6.45%) JNCIE
7 2 (6.45%) JNCIP
7 2 (6.45%) MCSE
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) SCCM
2 3 (9.68%) AppManager
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Cisco
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.68%) Ivanti
4 3 (9.68%) Juniper
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.68%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.45%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.45%) Remedy
5 2 (6.45%) Veeam