WAN Contracts in Surrey

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 28 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing WAN 11 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.69% 1.70% 2.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.43% 10.64% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £294 £304 £250
25th Percentile £341 £363 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £405 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -12.43% +39.10%
75th Percentile £556 - £556
90th Percentile £663 £495 £575
South East median daily rate £450 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £67.02 £62.00
% change year-on-year -71.65% +8.10% +249.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 94 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 11.74% 16.01% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 71 73
10th Percentile £250 £190 £196
25th Percentile £285 £350 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £638
90th Percentile £523 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -61.11% -
75th Percentile £29.44 £43.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £32.03 £57.75 £62.55
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Surrey 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
Guildford +7 5 £600 +60.00% 5
Woking +2 3 £325 +71.05% 4
Camberley -9 1 £425 -10.53% 1
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Akamai
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall
5 1 (9.09%) MPLS
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) PSTN
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
2 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) IT Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Support Technician
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Officer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Support Officer
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) API Management
3 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) A+ Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
2 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Arista
3 1 (9.09%) Aruba
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Dell KACE
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Ubiquiti