WAAS Contracts

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WAAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WAAS over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 558 660
Rank change year-on-year +10 +102 +203
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WAAS 5 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.015% 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.13% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £377 £437 -
25th Percentile £380 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £394 £500 £469
90th Percentile £395 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £385 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -23.00% +8.11% +16.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

WAAS 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,946 4,676 6,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.95% 12.06% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,380 2,821 4,274
10th Percentile £243 £220 £228
25th Percentile £370 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -6.00% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 309 268
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.28
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.49% +56.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £81.18 £74.00 £75.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £57.42
% change year-on-year -22.55% -4.42% +43.40%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WAAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WAAS

WAAS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WAAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WAAS

WAAS
Top 6 DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +10 5 £385 -18.95% 1
UK excluding London +1 5 £385 -23.00% 1
South West - 4 £383 - 1
North West - 1 £388 -
North of England - 1 £388 -
Work from Home - 1 £390 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Software Distribution
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft