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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 66 84
Rank change year-on-year -31 +18 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WAN 16 37 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.05% 2.40% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.21% 21.51% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 25
10th Percentile £325 £302 £191
25th Percentile £404 £398 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £476 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +19.06% -11.11%
75th Percentile £492 £521 £593
90th Percentile £506 £628 £626
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £14.79
25th Percentile - £23.92 £17.22
Median hourly rate - £24.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.05% +7.32%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £24.87 £40.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% -37.83% +63.27%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 195 172 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.78% 11.15% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 104 163
10th Percentile £234 £200 £172
25th Percentile £357 £404 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £543 £619 £590
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £13.45 £15.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £13.87 £18.41
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.27 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +173.67% -16.95% +2.85%
75th Percentile £52.50 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - £33.25
England median hourly rate £42.00 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.55% -2.75% +43.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -13 13 £478 +3.24% 8
South Yorkshire -21 2 - - 4
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
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 1 (6.25%) CICS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) SD-WAN
2 10 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 9 (56.25%) Ethernet
3 9 (56.25%) Firewall
4 5 (31.25%) LAN
4 5 (31.25%) Wireless
5 3 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (12.50%) VLAN
6 2 (12.50%) VPN
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
7 1 (6.25%) DNS
7 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
7 1 (6.25%) ISDN
7 1 (6.25%) MPLS
7 1 (6.25%) PSTN
7 1 (6.25%) SAN
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Implementation Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) CentOS
2 1 (6.25%) MVS
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Solaris
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Defect Management
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.25%) Agile
3 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.25%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (6.25%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (6.25%) Server Management
3 1 (6.25%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy
3 1 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCNA
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) KVM
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
2 1 (6.25%) SRDF
2 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) F5
3 4 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (18.75%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (6.25%) EMC
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) Nokia
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) Pure Storage
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) VMware