WAN Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Stoke-on-Trent

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	6	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing WAN	0	5	0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent	-	14.71%	-
As % of the Communications & Networking category	-	45.45%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
Staffordshire median daily rate	-	£425	-

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	4	11	18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent	21.05%	32.35%	31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	6	12
10^th Percentile	£239	£170	£377
25^th Percentile	£298	£247	£408
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£344	£438	£475
Median % change year-on-year	-21.43%	-7.89%	+26.67%
75^th Percentile	£350	£569	£575
90^th Percentile	-	£688	-
Staffordshire median daily rate	£350	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	-22.22%	-	+38.46%