Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WAAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAAS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 704 850
Rank change year-on-year +112 +146 -199
Contract jobs citing WAAS 8 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.015% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.12% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
10th Percentile £286 - £460
25th Percentile £303 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £363 £530 -
90th Percentile £408 £538 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -20.00% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

WAAS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,643 7,361 9,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 12.33% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 4,789 6,330
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 478 360
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

WAAS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WAAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WAAS in the UK

WAAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WAAS in the UK

WAAS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAAS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAAS in the UK

WAAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WAAS in the UK

WAAS
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAAS within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
England +105 8 £325 -18.75% 1
UK excluding London +66 8 £325 -18.75% 1
North of England +34 7 £325 -18.75%
North West +29 7 £325 -18.75%
Work from Home +119 5 £325 -38.10% 1
South West +9 1 £325 -18.75%

WAAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft