WAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 71 17 50
Rank change year-on-year -54 +33 +43
Contract jobs citing WAN 26 156 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.93% 8.01% 4.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% 39.49% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 77 50
10th Percentile £191 £261 £263
25th Percentile £275 £313 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.07% -15.09%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £447
90th Percentile £583 £738 £525
England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 3
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +73.08% -35.00%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £14.25
90th Percentile - - £14.70
England median hourly rate £53.75 £24.69 £60.00
% change year-on-year +117.74% -58.86% +130.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 143 395 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.63% 20.29% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 232 218
10th Percentile £145 £201 £263
25th Percentile £263 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 6
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £13.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%
75th Percentile £19.65 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £35.95 £28.75 £21.80
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Solihull -4 7 £375 - 5
Birmingham -27 6 £413 +17.86% 21
Warwickshire -13 5 £400 -46.67% 8
Coventry - 4 £438 - 4
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) BGP
1 13 (50.00%) MPLS
2 12 (46.15%) VPN
3 11 (42.31%) IPsec
3 11 (42.31%) LAN
4 10 (38.46%) SD-WAN
5 7 (26.92%) Firewall
6 6 (23.08%) Network Security
7 3 (11.54%) EIGRP
7 3 (11.54%) OSPF
7 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (7.69%) Unified Communications
8 2 (7.69%) VoIP
9 1 (3.85%) 5G
9 1 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.85%) Junos
9 1 (3.85%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (3.85%) Wireless Security
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Network Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (34.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Support Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Network Support
3 7 (26.92%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Architect
5 4 (15.38%) WAN Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Network Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) Network Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) SCADA
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) NB-IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
1 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Load Balancing
2 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
2 4 (15.38%) Network Design
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 3 (11.54%) Network Architecture
3 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.69%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (7.69%) Change Management
4 2 (7.69%) High Availability
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 2 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (7.69%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (7.69%) Project Management
4 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) CCNP
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) CCIE
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Juniper
2 8 (30.77%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Infoblox
4 2 (7.69%) Aruba
4 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.69%) Mitel
5 1 (3.85%) BMC
5 1 (3.85%) Huawei
5 1 (3.85%) Meraki
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.85%) Zscaler