WAN Contracts in Warwickshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 37 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WAN 21 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 4.13% 3.13% 1.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.58% 18.06% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 5
10th Percentile £310 £425 -
25th Percentile £350 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £750 £325
Median % change year-on-year -49.33% +130.77% -38.10%
75th Percentile £488 £775 £356
90th Percentile £600 - £405
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £338 £325
% change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -21.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 72 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 13.95% 17.35% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 47
10th Percentile £288 £313 £293
25th Percentile £380 £509 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £627 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +4.59% +14.19%
75th Percentile £596 £675 £738
90th Percentile £794 £775 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £17.59 - -
Median hourly rate £20.13 - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £22.59 - -
90th Percentile £24.04 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +114.29% -49.09% +61.76%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Warwickshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Warwickshire

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing WAN

WAN
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Warwick +4 16 £380 -49.33% 4
Leamington Spa - 1 £475 - 3
WAN
West Midlands

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Firewall
2 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 10 (47.62%) LAN
2 10 (47.62%) Wireless
3 8 (38.10%) VPN
4 7 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
4 7 (33.33%) DMVPN
4 7 (33.33%) IPsec
4 7 (33.33%) SSL
5 6 (28.57%) Network Security
5 6 (28.57%) SD-WAN
6 5 (23.81%) Wireshark
7 3 (14.29%) DHCP
8 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (4.76%) 3GPP
9 1 (4.76%) DMZ
9 1 (4.76%) Internet
General
1 10 (47.62%) Telecoms
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (4.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Test Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Network Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Principal Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Field Service Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Change Management
1 7 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (23.81%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Remote Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.52%) High Availability
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Project Management
3 2 (9.52%) Service Management
3 2 (9.52%) Validation
4 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.76%) IT Audit
4 1 (4.76%) Network Architecture
4 1 (4.76%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) CCIE
2 3 (14.29%) CCNP
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) HP ALM
2 2 (9.52%) OpenView
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Cisco
2 10 (47.62%) F5
3 8 (38.10%) Juniper
4 7 (33.33%) Blue Coat
4 7 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 5 (23.81%) HP
5 5 (23.81%) Micro Focus
5 5 (23.81%) Progress
6 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds