WAN Contracts in Manchester

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 58 112
Rank change year-on-year -19 +54 -23
Contract jobs citing WAN 20 50 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.39% 2.80% 1.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.42% 22.42% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 26
10th Percentile £210 £293 £270
25th Percentile £313 £350 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £475 £406
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +16.92% +12.07%
75th Percentile £406 £550 £500
90th Percentile £548 £618 £556
North West median daily rate £350 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 192 223 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.31% 12.50% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 161 214
10th Percentile £243 £313 £159
25th Percentile £350 £363 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £575 £623
90th Percentile £850 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £495 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% +16.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £18.90 £14.19 £13.79
25th Percentile £29.25 £16.42 £16.42
Median hourly rate £65.50 £19.85 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +229.93% +8.78% -48.69%
75th Percentile £101.00 £26.86 £22.46
90th Percentile £102.80 £31.88 £46.76
North West median hourly rate £41.23 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% +75.00% +37.32%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Manchester

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Manchester

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Manchester

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Manchester

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Wigan - 1 £450 - 1
WAN
North West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) LAN
2 15 (75.00%) VPN
3 11 (55.00%) Wireless
4 10 (50.00%) Ethernet
4 10 (50.00%) OSPF
4 10 (50.00%) Wireless Security
5 6 (30.00%) Firewall
6 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (15.00%) VLAN
7 3 (15.00%) VoIP
8 2 (10.00%) Network Security
9 1 (5.00%) BGP
9 1 (5.00%) DHCP
9 1 (5.00%) DMZ
9 1 (5.00%) DNS
9 1 (5.00%) IPsec
9 1 (5.00%) MPLS
9 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (15.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Presales Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Clustering
1 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.00%) Debian
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.00%) Logistics
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bicep
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (40.00%) CCNA
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) CCNP
6 1 (5.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Autotask
1 3 (15.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (15.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Apple
3 3 (15.00%) Datto
4 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Radianz