WAAS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for WAAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAAS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 466 -
Rank change year-on-year +119 - -
Contract jobs citing WAAS 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.015% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £473 -
25th Percentile £313 £498 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% - -
75th Percentile £338 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £325 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -20.00% +8.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

WAAS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,623 2,957 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.55% 11.44% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,970 2,945
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 101 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.13 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.79% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

WAAS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WAAS trend for jobs with a WFH option

WAAS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAAS.

WAAS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WAAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) IT Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft