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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 68 101
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 -29
Contract jobs citing WAN 16 38 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.28% 2.21% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.08% 19.39% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 13
10th Percentile £330 £205 £190
25th Percentile £393 £345 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £494 £566 £425
90th Percentile £505 £631 £475
England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £24.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.05% +31.34%
England median hourly rate £30.00 £24.87 £57.33
% change year-on-year +20.63% -56.62% +120.50%

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 198 196 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.89% 11.42% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 129 141
10th Percentile £235 £192 £150
25th Percentile £358 £275 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +7.22% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £606
90th Percentile £616 £638 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 30
10th Percentile - £12.75 £9.80
25th Percentile - £13.87 £10.01
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +71.87% -39.74%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

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 July 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 July 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 -11 10 £491 +6.11% 36
South Yorkshire -6 5 £400 -23.08% 24
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 10 (62.50%) SD-WAN
3 9 (56.25%) Firewall
4 8 (50.00%) Ethernet
5 7 (43.75%) LAN
6 5 (31.25%) VPN
7 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (25.00%) Wireless
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (18.75%) DNS
8 3 (18.75%) DWDM
8 3 (18.75%) Network Security
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (6.25%) 4G
10 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (6.25%) ISDN
10 1 (6.25%) MPLS
10 1 (6.25%) PSTN
10 1 (6.25%) VLAN
10 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Network Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Implementation Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) CentOS
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Analytics
2 4 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Runbook
4 1 (6.25%) Server Management
4 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CCNP
4 2 (12.50%) CCNA
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (12.50%) JNCIA
4 2 (12.50%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (18.75%) Arista
4 3 (18.75%) F5
4 3 (18.75%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat