WAN Optimisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

WAN Optimization
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 WAN Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 476 -
Rank change year-on-year +132 - -
Contract jobs citing WAN Optimisation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.004% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £580
% change year-on-year +8.33% -22.41% +16.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

WAN Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

WAN Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WAN Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

WAN Optimisation
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 WAN Optimisation.

WAN Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WAN Optimisation
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DDNS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FCoE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Adaptive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds