WAN Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WAN Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 - 504
Rank change year-on-year - - -70
Contract jobs citing WAN Optimisation 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% - 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £580
% change year-on-year +8.33% -22.41% +16.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,089 20,700 27,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.28% 89.44% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,222 14,252 18,988
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,065 1,263 1,349
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.69 £61.53
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

WAN Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WAN Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East - 3 £488 -
WAN Optimisation
UK

WAN Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) NX-OS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) DDNS
3 1 (33.33%) DSL
3 1 (33.33%) FCoE
3 1 (33.33%) Junos
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Network Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Adaptive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds