WAN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 65 55 80
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing WAN 75 98 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.88% 3.50% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.54% 21.78% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 63 41
10th Percentile £148 £317 £203
25th Percentile £275 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -2.92% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £580
90th Percentile - £579 £653
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile £34.47 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £58.44 £19.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +407.69% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.68 £80.25 -
90th Percentile £76.47 £80.40 £34.70
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
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 554 450 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.27% 16.06% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 279 349
10th Percentile £205 £300 £206
25th Percentile £335 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +2.74% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £556
90th Percentile £638 £650 £648
South East median daily rate £488 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +0.52% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 21
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.90 £12.25
25th Percentile £23.10 £22.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -32.67%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.49 £81.22 £26.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -33.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WAN in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -7 67 £535 +9.53% 13
Oxfordshire +8 5 £465 +3.33% 3
Buckinghamshire +2 3 £425 -11.56% 5
WAN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.33%) AWS
2 4 (5.33%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.67%) Google Workspace
4 2 (2.67%) IaaS
4 2 (2.67%) PaaS
4 2 (2.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (74.67%) LAN
2 34 (45.33%) Firewall
3 14 (18.67%) SD-WAN
4 11 (14.67%) MPLS
5 10 (13.33%) VPN
6 8 (10.67%) BGP
6 8 (10.67%) DNS
6 8 (10.67%) TCP/IP
7 7 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (6.67%) Network Security
8 5 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (5.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (5.33%) Internet
9 4 (5.33%) IPsec
10 3 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (4.00%) Junos
10 3 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (4.00%) VoIP
10 3 (4.00%) Wireless
General
1 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.00%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Military
5 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) Architect
2 24 (32.00%) Network Architect
2 24 (32.00%) Network Engineer
3 15 (20.00%) Senior
4 13 (17.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Support Specialist
6 5 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (6.67%) Technical Support
6 5 (6.67%) Technical Support Specialist
7 3 (4.00%) Lead
8 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Head of Information
8 2 (2.67%) Head of Information Security
8 2 (2.67%) Head of Operations
8 2 (2.67%) Head of Security
8 2 (2.67%) Network Support
8 2 (2.67%) Senior Network Support
9 1 (1.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.33%) Operational Technology
2 4 (5.33%) SCADA
3 3 (4.00%) CCTV
3 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.33%) IoT
5 1 (1.33%) Life Science
5 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (8.00%) Linux
3 5 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (10.67%) Availability Management
3 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (9.33%) Security Monitoring
4 6 (8.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (8.00%) Line Management
4 6 (8.00%) Network Design
5 5 (6.67%) Information Security
5 5 (6.67%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (5.33%) Load Balancing
6 4 (5.33%) Presales
6 4 (5.33%) Project Management
7 3 (4.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (4.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (4.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (4.00%) Service Design
7 3 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.33%) DV Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 8 (10.67%) CCNA
5 8 (10.67%) Degree
6 7 (9.33%) CCNP
7 4 (5.33%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (4.00%) CCIE
9 1 (1.33%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.33%) CCDP
9 1 (1.33%) CCIP
9 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.33%) HNC
9 1 (1.33%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) ISO 9000
1 5 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) SCCM
2 2 (2.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (2.67%) Endace
2 2 (2.67%) Nessus
2 2 (2.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 42 (56.00%) Cisco
2 22 (29.33%) Juniper
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.67%) VMware
5 7 (9.33%) CheckPoint
5 7 (9.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.67%) HP
6 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.00%) Citrix
7 3 (4.00%) Meraki
8 2 (2.67%) F5
8 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.67%) Google
8 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.67%) Splunk
9 1 (1.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 1 (1.33%) Aruba
9 1 (1.33%) Fujitsu
9 1 (1.33%) IBM
9 1 (1.33%) Zscaler