WAN Contracts in Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 78 64 109
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 -39
Contract jobs citing WAN 14 36 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.38% 2.13% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.65% 19.25% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 15
10th Percentile £223 £279 £190
25th Percentile £237 £378 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £513 £300
Median % change year-on-year -47.80% +70.83% -33.33%
75th Percentile £384 £605 £413
90th Percentile £435 £650 £540
England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £22.93
25th Percentile - £23.92 £24.31
Median hourly rate - £24.87 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year - -8.73% +54.48%
75th Percentile - £25.83 £30.81
90th Percentile - - £32.58
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 187 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.99% 11.07% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 136 146
10th Percentile £196 £200 £181
25th Percentile £235 £313 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £675 £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 38
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £9.80
Median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile £41.50 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 Yorkshire

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire -3 7 £245 -42.35% 8
South Yorkshire +8 5 £400 -38.46% 6
North Yorkshire +11 2 - - 6
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (35.71%) OneDrive
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) LAN
2 10 (71.43%) VPN
3 8 (57.14%) DNS
4 6 (42.86%) VLAN
4 6 (42.86%) VoIP
4 6 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (35.71%) DHCP
5 5 (35.71%) Firewall
5 5 (35.71%) Network Security
5 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (21.43%) DWDM
7 2 (14.29%) WLAN
8 1 (7.14%) Internet
8 1 (7.14%) ISDN
8 1 (7.14%) MPLS
8 1 (7.14%) NGN
8 1 (7.14%) PSTN
8 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
8 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Desktop Support
3 3 (21.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Desktop Support
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Customer Service
2 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (7.14%) High Availability
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Project Management
4 1 (7.14%) Runbook
4 1 (7.14%) Server Management
4 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNA
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) JNCIA
2 2 (14.29%) JNCIS
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) AppManager
1 5 (35.71%) SCCM
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
3 5 (35.71%) Ivanti
3 5 (35.71%) VMware
4 3 (21.43%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat