WAN Contract Job Trends in West London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing WAN 22 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in West London 7.19% 2.79% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.92% 14.29% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 5
10th Percentile £350 £172 £280
25th Percentile £390 £242 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £478 £388
90th Percentile - £488 £583
London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 42 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 20.59% 19.53% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 30 49
10th Percentile £296 £197 £133
25th Percentile £380 £225 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £500 £450 £500
90th Percentile £523 £509 £632
London median daily rate £510 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.18% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - £23.59 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year - -47.87% +17.20%
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - £80.40
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

WAN job vacancy trend in West London

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in West London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in West London

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the West London region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Hillingdon 0 13 £450 +153.71%
Wembley - 6 - - 3
Hounslow +1 1 £275 -38.89%
WAN
London

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) LAN
2 15 (68.18%) Firewall
2 15 (68.18%) SD-WAN
3 13 (59.09%) VPN
4 9 (40.91%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (40.91%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (36.36%) DHCP
5 8 (36.36%) DNS
6 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (22.73%) Network Security
8 3 (13.64%) BGP
8 3 (13.64%) OSPF
8 3 (13.64%) VLAN
9 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (9.09%) Wireless
9 2 (9.09%) WLAN
10 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (4.55%) DMVPN
10 1 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (4.55%) Structured Cabling
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Architect
2 7 (31.82%) Network Architect
3 6 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (27.27%) IT Support
3 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Network Design Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Design Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Network Support
7 1 (4.55%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.55%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) CCTV
2 1 (4.55%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
2 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Network Design
2 2 (9.09%) Migration
2 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (4.55%) Incident Response
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL
3 1 (4.55%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (4.55%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (4.55%) Patch Management
3 1 (4.55%) Runbook
3 1 (4.55%) Security Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) System Testing
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF
3 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) CCNP
4 2 (9.09%) CCIE
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.55%) CCNA
5 1 (4.55%) CCSA
5 1 (4.55%) CCSE
5 1 (4.55%) CEH
5 1 (4.55%) CISSP
5 1 (4.55%) JNCIE
5 1 (4.55%) JNCIP
5 1 (4.55%) MCITP
5 1 (4.55%) MCP
5 1 (4.55%) MCSA
5 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GRC
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Firmware
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Cisco
2 9 (40.91%) Fortinet
3 3 (13.64%) Juniper
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.09%) F5
4 2 (9.09%) Qualys
4 2 (9.09%) Tenable
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) Remedy
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler