WAN Contracts in South Wales

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.22% 4.00% 3.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.12% 19.79% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 22
10th Percentile £219 - £160
25th Percentile £233 £273 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £275 £295
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +24.21%
75th Percentile £303 £419 £559
90th Percentile £324 £438 £610
Wales median daily rate £263 £325 £295
% change year-on-year -19.23% +10.17% +24.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 33 96 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 10.09% 20.21% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 78 113
10th Percentile £175 £250 £192
25th Percentile £199 £321 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £241 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £588
90th Percentile £643 £641 £648
Wales median daily rate £241 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -52.93% +13.89% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £31.84
25th Percentile - - £45.63
Median hourly rate £14.36 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +128.40%
75th Percentile - - £47.40
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £16.77 - £46.25
% change year-on-year - - +120.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cardiff +3 2 £273 -35.88% 7
Bridgend +2 1 £263 -25.00% 1
WAN
Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) Broadband
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NEBOSH
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft