WAN Contracts in Central London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 133 137
Rank change year-on-year +43 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing WAN 38 47 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.58% 1.25% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.83% 12.34% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 43
10th Percentile £126 £200 £408
25th Percentile £252 £322 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% -4.08%
75th Percentile £591 £642 £638
90th Percentile £663 £801 £695
London median daily rate £500 £540 £475
% change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.58
25th Percentile - - £39.06
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £43.56
90th Percentile - - £44.13
London median hourly rate £17.00 £65.00 £43.74
% change year-on-year -73.85% +48.61% -12.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 240 381 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.01% 10.17% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 267 339
10th Percentile £205 £184 £313
25th Percentile £333 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £616
90th Percentile £721 £743 £713
London median daily rate £500 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -12.43% +3.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.46 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £24.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £57.44
90th Percentile - £30.86 £63.43
London median hourly rate £22.75 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -43.13% +14.29% -29.51%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Central London

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Central London

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 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
City of London +32 34 £481 -12.50% 24
West End of London +4 2 £252 -59.65%
City of Westminster -2 2 - -
Lambeth - 1 £188 -
WAN
London

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.26%) WhatsApp
5 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.63%) IaaS
5 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (52.63%) LAN
2 17 (44.74%) Firewall
3 16 (42.11%) SD-WAN
4 9 (23.68%) Wireless
5 8 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (18.42%) WLAN
7 4 (10.53%) Unified Communications
8 3 (7.89%) VPN
9 2 (5.26%) BGP
9 2 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (5.26%) DNS
9 2 (5.26%) Internet
9 2 (5.26%) IPsec
9 2 (5.26%) MPLS
9 2 (5.26%) OSPF
9 2 (5.26%) Softphone
9 2 (5.26%) VoIP
10 1 (2.63%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (2.63%) Network Security
10 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
1 1 (2.63%) Katalon Studio
General
1 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Consultant
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Network Architect
4 4 (10.53%) IT Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) IT Support
4 4 (10.53%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (10.53%) IT Technician
4 4 (10.53%) Security Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Support Technician
5 3 (7.89%) Desktop Technician
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Desktop Support
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior IT Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior IT Support
5 3 (7.89%) Junior IT Technician
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
1 1 (2.63%) LDAP
1 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) PKI
3 3 (7.89%) iPhone
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) CMDB
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) IVR
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Android
4 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
2 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
4 4 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (7.89%) Change Management
5 3 (7.89%) Data Encryption
5 3 (7.89%) Database Security
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Information Security
5 3 (7.89%) IT Strategy
5 3 (7.89%) Logistics
5 3 (7.89%) Network Architecture
5 3 (7.89%) Performance Management
5 3 (7.89%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (7.89%) Security Auditing
5 3 (7.89%) SIEM
5 3 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Java
3 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.63%) Perl
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) CCNA
4 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) CCNP
5 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.63%) CCIE
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMP
6 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (5.26%) COBIT
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) NCSC
3 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) CASB
2 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.26%) SCCM
2 2 (5.26%) SCOrch
2 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Cisco
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 7 (18.42%) Palo Alto
4 6 (15.79%) Juniper
5 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.89%) Aruba
6 3 (7.89%) HP
7 2 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (5.26%) F5
7 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.26%) Google
7 2 (5.26%) Imperva
7 2 (5.26%) Netskope
7 2 (5.26%) VMware
8 1 (2.63%) Apple
8 1 (2.63%) Commvault
8 1 (2.63%) Dell
8 1 (2.63%) Meraki
8 1 (2.63%) Riverbed
8 1 (2.63%) Terracotta