WAN Contracts in the East Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 57 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 20 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.15% 2.02% 2.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.62% 15.50% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 27
10th Percentile £420 £254 £185
25th Percentile £479 £308 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -6.83%
75th Percentile £658 £480 £528
90th Percentile £930 £511 £550
England median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £19.90
25th Percentile - - £20.13
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £23.38
90th Percentile - - £23.60
England median hourly rate £24.87 £58.67 £26.00
% change year-on-year -57.61% +125.63% +30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 104 129 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.97% 13.00% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 105 124
10th Percentile £188 £261 £166
25th Percentile £313 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £394
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% +15.67% +9.38%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £478
90th Percentile £659 £709 £550
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £12.47 £20.09 £15.06
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.22 £16.41
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.26 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +13.98% +30.20%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £23.13
90th Percentile - - £23.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Leicestershire +8 4 £560 +31.76%
Derbyshire 0 2 - - 7
Nottinghamshire +5 1 £375 -24.05% 2
Northamptonshire -4 1 £500 +33.33% 4
WAN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) Wireless
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (20.00%) Ethereal
3 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Director
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Logistics
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNA
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
2 2 (20.00%) OpenView
3 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Aerohive Networks
3 1 (10.00%) Avaya
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Mitel
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Nortel
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam