WAN Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -58 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.38% 4.67% 2.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.86% 20.59% 33.33%
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
Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £245 £500
% change year-on-year +77.55% -51.00% +37.84%

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 105 68 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.38% 22.67% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 39 28
10th Percentile £399 £199 £235
25th Percentile £458 £220 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £650 £605 £605
90th Percentile £700 £695 £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £408 £430
% change year-on-year +13.36% -5.12% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +124.49%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing WAN

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 30 December 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 -55 3 £588 +170.51% 6
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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