WAN Contracts in London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 206 256
Rank change year-on-year +16 +50 -30
Contract jobs citing WAN 226 358 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.33% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.24% 13.38% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 205 263
10th Percentile £207 £244 £226
25th Percentile £350 £409 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +5.98%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £588
90th Percentile £775 £800 £707
England median daily rate £500 £475 £443
% change year-on-year +5.26% +7.34% +4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £29.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £42.50 £26.50
Median hourly rate £20.25 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.85% +51.16% -14.00%
75th Percentile £24.00 - £47.48
90th Percentile £24.45 - £48.58
England median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -58.86% +130.77% +36.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,707 2,676 3,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.59% 9.94% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,881 2,550
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 54 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £20.90
25th Percentile £18.36 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +27.41% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £48.20
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in London

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in London

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in London

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in London

WAN
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +28 34 £475 -13.64% 20
East London +1 8 £563 +122.77% 3
West London +15 5 £280 -6.67% 3
South London +5 2 £450 +69.81% 4
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (21.24%) Azure
2 35 (15.49%) AWS
3 20 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.08%) GCP
5 11 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.10%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.65%) IaaS
8 4 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.33%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.33%) PaaS
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.88%) Route 53
10 2 (0.88%) SaaS
11 1 (0.44%) GitHub
11 1 (0.44%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 160 (70.80%) LAN
2 120 (53.10%) Firewall
3 81 (35.84%) VPN
4 69 (30.53%) BGP
5 68 (30.09%) OSPF
6 67 (29.65%) SD-WAN
7 61 (26.99%) Wireless
8 40 (17.70%) DNS
9 36 (15.93%) Network Security
10 35 (15.49%) DHCP
10 35 (15.49%) MPLS
11 32 (14.16%) WLAN
12 30 (13.27%) IPsec
12 30 (13.27%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (12.39%) Cisco ASA
14 22 (9.73%) TCP/IP
14 22 (9.73%) VLAN
15 19 (8.41%) EIGRP
15 19 (8.41%) VoIP
16 18 (7.96%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.88%) MySQL
2 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.88%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
General
1 59 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.35%) Finance
3 29 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.75%) Mandarin Language
6 12 (5.31%) Banking
6 12 (5.31%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.65%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Front Office
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Aviation
11 2 (0.88%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (32.30%) Network Engineer
2 21 (9.29%) Network Specialist
2 21 (9.29%) Senior
3 18 (7.96%) Architect
4 16 (7.08%) Support Engineer
5 13 (5.75%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (5.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 13 (5.75%) Consultant
6 12 (5.31%) IT Engineer
7 11 (4.87%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.42%) IT Support
8 10 (4.42%) Network Architect
9 9 (3.98%) Lead
9 9 (3.98%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.54%) Desktop Support
10 8 (3.54%) WAN Engineer
11 6 (2.65%) Analyst
11 6 (2.65%) Cloud Consultant
11 6 (2.65%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.65%) LDAP
2 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.88%) HTML
2 2 (0.88%) Jinja
2 2 (0.88%) JSON
2 2 (0.88%) Middleware
2 2 (0.88%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.88%) RESTful
2 2 (0.88%) XML
2 2 (0.88%) YANG
3 1 (0.44%) .NET
3 1 (0.44%) Kafka
3 1 (0.44%) LAMP
3 1 (0.44%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.44%) libvirt
3 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.37%) PKI
2 30 (13.27%) Data Centre
3 22 (9.73%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.10%) CCTV
6 6 (2.65%) NHS
7 5 (2.21%) Clustering
7 5 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.77%) iPhone
8 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.88%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.88%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.44%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.35%) Windows
2 27 (11.95%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.64%) Mac OS
4 10 (4.42%) Linux
4 10 (4.42%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.21%) Android
6 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.88%) CentOS
7 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.88%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.44%) Unix
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (16.37%) Change Management
2 33 (14.60%) ITIL
3 32 (14.16%) Migration
3 32 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (10.62%) Network Architecture
6 23 (10.18%) Cloud Security
6 23 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (9.73%) Agile
8 21 (9.29%) Customer Service
8 21 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (9.29%) Network Design
9 20 (8.85%) Threat Management
10 19 (8.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (7.52%) Project Management
12 15 (6.64%) SIEM
13 13 (5.75%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (5.75%) Identity Access Management
14 12 (5.31%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.64%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.87%) Python
3 8 (3.54%) SQL
4 5 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.88%) C#
5 2 (0.88%) Perl
6 1 (0.44%) Bash
6 1 (0.44%) Java
6 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (23.01%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (17.70%) Security Cleared
3 37 (16.37%) CCNP
4 33 (14.60%) Degree
5 29 (12.83%) SC Cleared
6 24 (10.62%) CCNA
7 15 (6.64%) CCIE
8 10 (4.42%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.21%) CCDP
10 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.33%) MCSE
13 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.88%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.88%) CCIP
13 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.88%) PMP
13 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.08%) SLA
2 15 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (3.54%) QA
5 3 (1.33%) NCSC
6 2 (0.88%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (13.27%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.42%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.54%) Firmware
4 8 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.88%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Ceph
8 1 (0.44%) iptables
8 1 (0.44%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Lustre
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) Samba
8 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (8.85%) FortiGate
2 10 (4.42%) Terraform
3 7 (3.10%) Ansible
4 6 (2.65%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.77%) SCCM
6 3 (1.33%) Kibana
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.33%) Stealthwatch
6 3 (1.33%) TrustSec
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.88%) Nessus
7 2 (0.88%) Puppet
7 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.88%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.44%) OPNET
8 1 (0.44%) SCOM
8 1 (0.44%) SELinux
Vendors
1 121 (53.54%) Cisco
2 58 (25.66%) Palo Alto
3 43 (19.03%) Microsoft
4 34 (15.04%) Juniper
5 29 (12.83%) Fortinet
6 27 (11.95%) F5
7 19 (8.41%) CheckPoint
8 17 (7.52%) Meraki
8 17 (7.52%) VMware
9 11 (4.87%) Extreme Networks
9 11 (4.87%) Infoblox
10 10 (4.42%) Aruba
11 7 (3.10%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.10%) Splunk
11 7 (3.10%) TOWER Software
12 6 (2.65%) Citrix
12 6 (2.65%) Dell
12 6 (2.65%) Google
12 6 (2.65%) HP
12 6 (2.65%) SolarWinds