WAN Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 53 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +28
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 10 37
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.85% 1.74% 4.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 7.94% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 27
10th Percentile £406 £350 -
25th Percentile £414 £525 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +28.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £452 £650 £669
90th Percentile £462 £738 £740
South West median daily rate £450 £423 £488
% change year-on-year +6.51% -13.33% +2.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 126 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 20.94% 21.91% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 85 99
10th Percentile £453 £454 £293
25th Percentile £525 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.61% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £702 £668 £606
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £43.01
25th Percentile £47.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £59.00
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -13.09%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Corsham +5 2 £431 -31.00%
Swindon - 2 - -
WAN
South West

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Presales
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared