WAN Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 47 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -27
Contract jobs citing WAN 5 30 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.04% 3.50% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% 30.61% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 3
10th Percentile £290 £277 £242
25th Percentile £313 £425 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.76% +20.14% -18.37%
75th Percentile £494 £540 £490
90th Percentile £528 £559 £544
South East median daily rate £438 £450 £428
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.25
25th Percentile - £18.50 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +46.15% +0.15%
75th Percentile - £19.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £73.50 £62.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +18.54% +376.92% -48.51%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

WAN 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 advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 98 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 17.67% 11.42% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 82 98
10th Percentile £224 £408 £239
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £550
90th Percentile £825 £623 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.44% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 11
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £22.58 £19.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% +46.15% +0.15%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.50 -
90th Percentile - - £13.75
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -34.35%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Buckinghamshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Milton Keynes +3 5 £400 -16.76% 3
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) VMware