WAN Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
England > West Midlands

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) daily rate in the West Midlands is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 107 170
Rank change year-on-year +26 +63 -41
Contract jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 34 24 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.76% 1.07% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £211 £335 £380
25th Percentile £284 £350 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £378 £450 £438
90th Percentile £384 £465 £445
England median daily rate £375 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,769 2,124 3,458
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 94.44% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,454 2,495
10th Percentile £250 £258 £231
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 59 71
10th Percentile £12.14 £12.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.88 £14.43 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.77 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.32 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.13 £59.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in the West Midlands

WAN Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for WAN Engineer in the West Midlands

WAN Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN Engineer in the West Midlands

WAN Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN Engineer in the West Midlands

WAN Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Solihull +2 24 £275 -21.43% 2
Birmingham +7 11 £350 -22.22% 1
WAN Engineer
England

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, WAN Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) WAN
2 32 (94.12%) Security Cleared
3 29 (85.29%) Juniper
3 29 (85.29%) IPsec
4 28 (82.35%) MPLS
5 27 (79.41%) BGP
6 25 (73.53%) VPN
6 25 (73.53%) PKI
6 25 (73.53%) Junos
7 24 (70.59%) Load Balancing
8 7 (20.59%) Cisco
9 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
10 5 (14.71%) Security Monitoring
10 5 (14.71%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
10 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (14.71%) DNS
10 5 (14.71%) ISO 9000
10 5 (14.71%) Windows
10 5 (14.71%) Linux
11 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
11 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (8.82%) Fujitsu
13 2 (5.88%) Network Design
13 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (5.88%) CCNP
14 1 (2.94%) CCNA
14 1 (2.94%) SLA
14 1 (2.94%) LAN

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 34 (100.00%) WAN
2 29 (85.29%) IPsec
3 28 (82.35%) MPLS
4 27 (79.41%) BGP
5 25 (73.53%) Junos
5 25 (73.53%) VPN
6 5 (14.71%) DNS
6 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.94%) CATAPAN
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.94%) Firewall
7 1 (2.94%) HSRP
7 1 (2.94%) LAN
7 1 (2.94%) OSPF
7 1 (2.94%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (2.94%) VLAN
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.94%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (73.53%) PKI
2 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Load Balancing
2 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (14.71%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (14.71%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (5.88%) Network Design
4 1 (2.94%) Mentoring
4 1 (2.94%) Project Delivery
4 1 (2.94%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (2.94%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 32 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CCNP
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CCNA
4 1 (2.94%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO 9000
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
Vendors
1 29 (85.29%) Juniper
2 7 (20.59%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) Fujitsu
4 1 (2.94%) F5