WAN Contract Job Trends in Wakefield

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wakefield requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wakefield 7.41% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £357 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £516 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £478 £463
% change year-on-year -0.52% +3.24% +23.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wakefield 11.11% - 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £286 - £552
25th Percentile £293 - £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 - £558
75th Percentile £441 - £561
90th Percentile £499 - £564
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wakefield.

WAN job vacancy trend in Wakefield

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Daily Rate Trend in Wakefield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing WAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wakefield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Wakefield over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Wakefield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wakefield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wakefield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Support
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft