WAN Contracts in Birmingham

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 15 45
Rank change year-on-year -42 +30 +17
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 71 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.40% 8.86% 3.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.20% 36.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 28
10th Percentile £334 £198 £225
25th Percentile £384 £258 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +1.19%
75th Percentile £584 £394 £550
90th Percentile £759 £450 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £420 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +20.00% -17.65% +22.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 82 192 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.47% 23.97% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 91 107
10th Percentile £163 £220 £207
25th Percentile £205 £319 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -11.76% +1.49%
75th Percentile £580 £475 £569
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £30.94 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £41.25 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% - -
75th Percentile £50.94 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £56.38 £69.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £24.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% +18.56% +52.90%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) BGP
3 3 (30.00%) MPLS
3 3 (30.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) Ethereal
4 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (20.00%) IPsec
4 2 (20.00%) Junos
4 2 (20.00%) Softphone
4 2 (20.00%) Wireless
4 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) VoIP
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Support
3 2 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) System Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (20.00%) OpenView
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Aruba
4 1 (10.00%) Avaya
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) VMware