WAN Contracts in Wales

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 37 37 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 25 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.98% 4.29% 3.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.81% 21.93% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 23
10th Percentile £219 - £164
25th Percentile £233 £273 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £325 £295
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +10.17% +24.21%
75th Percentile £303 £419 £556
90th Percentile £324 £438 £608
UK median daily rate £481 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.32% +5.56% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 37 114 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.02% 19.55% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 90 130
10th Percentile £170 £250 £184
25th Percentile £199 £321 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £241 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% +16.67% +6.51%
75th Percentile £522 £588 £588
90th Percentile £627 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £14.84 - £12.03
25th Percentile £15.56 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.77 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +120.24%
75th Percentile £17.97 - £47.40
90th Percentile £18.69 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Wales

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Wales

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Wales

WAN
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales +4 4 £263 -4.55% 11
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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