WireGuard Contract Job Trends in the South West

WireGuard
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring WireGuard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WireGuard 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.033% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

WireGuard 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 253 265 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.28% 15.60% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 186 365
10th Percentile £263 £300 £261
25th Percentile £400 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £675
90th Percentile £715 £688 £728
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 4 37
10th Percentile £12.75 £30.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £37.25 £59.23 £15.75
Median hourly rate £61.25 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +87.50% +308.16%
75th Percentile £73.16 - £70.66
90th Percentile £96.38 - £77.40
England median hourly rate £42.10 £35.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +17.75% +10.00% +71.05%

WireGuard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Video Analytics
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform