WAN Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) daily rate in Wokingham is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £413 £400 -
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wokingham with a recognized job title 354 129 88
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.55% 83.23% 97.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 81 61
10th Percentile £300 £325 £310
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.09% -19.17%
75th Percentile £508 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £623
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'WAN Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

WAN Engineer job vacancy trend in Wokingham

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, WAN Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wokingham region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (100.00%) WPA2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) HP