WAN Contracts in South Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 43 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -15
Contract jobs citing WAN 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.34% 1.09% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.04% 6.76% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £308 £516 £199
25th Percentile £343 £525 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £240
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +170.83% -38.06%
75th Percentile £450 - £245
90th Percentile £480 £680 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £268 £513 £300
% change year-on-year -47.80% +70.83% -33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 74 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.03% 16.19% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 53 48
10th Percentile £185 £233 £194
25th Percentile £271 £430 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £403 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £9.80
Median hourly rate - - £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Sheffield +5 5 £400 -38.46% 8
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) DWDM
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) 4G
4 1 (20.00%) ISDN
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) PSTN
4 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Arista
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft