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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing WAN 12 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.80% 2.77% 3.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.69% 14.41% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 13
10th Percentile £268 £260 £199
25th Percentile £303 £394 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -12.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £535 £528 £575
90th Percentile £549 £644 £585
South East median daily rate £450 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -13.21% +15.22% -

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 58 111 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 18.35% 19.20% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 81 108
10th Percentile £204 £203 £206
25th Percentile £259 £260 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -14.74% +62.39%
75th Percentile £506 £531 £700
90th Percentile £538 £663 £838
South East median daily rate £498 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile - - £28.35
25th Percentile £28.00 £57.50 £39.38
Median hourly rate £30.39 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.36% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £60.81 £62.50 £55.03
90th Percentile £70.16 - £62.55
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% -0.26% +76.92%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +1 5 £511 -4.88%
Woking +7 3 £325 -53.57% 3
Leatherhead +6 2 £388 -4.32% 1
Camberley -5 1 £425 -19.05%
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Akamai
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) DNS
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
5 1 (8.33%) MPLS
5 1 (8.33%) NGFW
5 1 (8.33%) OSPF
5 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) API Management
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Time Management
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Encryption
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco
1 4 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Arista
4 1 (8.33%) Aruba
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) Dell KACE
4 1 (8.33%) Meraki
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (8.33%) Wyse