WAN Contracts in Wales

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 38 43 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +18
Contract jobs citing WAN 5 1 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.71% 0.25% 4.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.46% 2.70% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.64%
75th Percentile - - £400
90th Percentile - - £438
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 37 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.87% 9.37% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 78
10th Percentile £165 £173 £250
25th Percentile £208 £199 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £440 £588 £550
90th Percentile £472 £685 £641
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £23.75 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £30.00 £15.56 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.77 -
Median % change year-on-year +123.68% - -
75th Percentile £43.13 £17.97 -
90th Percentile £50.00 £18.69 -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Wales

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Wales

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Wales

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Wales 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
North Wales - 3 £400 - 1
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
4 2 (40.00%) DHCP
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (40.00%) Skype
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Supervisor
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Anti-Spyware
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) AirWatch
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (40.00%) MobileIron
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow