WAN Jobs in the East Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 98 114
Rank change year-on-year -43 +16 -26
Permanent jobs citing WAN 47 74 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.07% 2.62% 2.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.38% 12.59% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 45 53 72
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £30,500 £27,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £49,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £58,625
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,250 £49,000
% change year-on-year +4.97% -7.65% +3.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 561 588 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.75% 20.82% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 457 207 329
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,125 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £39,335
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% -5.52%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £64,250 £61,050
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN in the East Midlands

WAN
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the East Midlands

WAN
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +1 20 £35,000 +21.74% 4
Nottinghamshire -19 13 £50,000 +0.76% 4
Lincolnshire -4 7 £50,000 +31.58% 1
Northamptonshire -18 4 £26,500 -24.29% 4
Leicestershire -25 2 £67,500 +28.57% 1
WAN
England

WAN
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 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Shopify
2 1 (2.13%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (63.83%) Azure
3 7 (14.89%) Mimecast
4 5 (10.64%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Nutanix
5 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.38%) WhatsApp
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (76.60%) LAN
2 21 (44.68%) DNS
2 21 (44.68%) Firewall
3 20 (42.55%) DHCP
4 15 (31.91%) TCP/IP
5 11 (23.40%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (19.15%) SD-WAN
6 9 (19.15%) VLAN
7 8 (17.02%) SAN
7 8 (17.02%) VPN
8 7 (14.89%) WLAN
9 6 (12.77%) Wireless
10 5 (10.64%) NAS
11 4 (8.51%) MPLS
12 3 (6.38%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (4.26%) Broadband
13 2 (4.26%) Internet
13 2 (4.26%) IP Telephony
13 2 (4.26%) Network Security
13 2 (4.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) MySQL
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Law
2 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Retail
4 2 (4.26%) Legal
4 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Automotive
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) IT Engineer
3 9 (19.15%) Support Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) IT Support
5 5 (10.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (8.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) IT Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) LDAP
1 2 (4.26%) SAML
1 2 (4.26%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.38%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (4.26%) IoT
3 2 (4.26%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) PropTech
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (61.70%) Windows
2 23 (48.94%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (8.51%) VMS
5 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.26%) Android
6 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.13%) Linux
7 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.15%) Project Management
4 8 (17.02%) ITIL
5 6 (12.77%) Migration
5 6 (12.77%) Service Management
6 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.64%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (8.51%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.51%) DevOps
7 4 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.51%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (6.38%) Agile
8 3 (6.38%) Change Management
8 3 (6.38%) ITSM
8 3 (6.38%) Load Balancing
8 3 (6.38%) Logistics
8 3 (6.38%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.38%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Bash
3 2 (4.26%) Bicep
3 2 (4.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.51%) CCNA
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) MCSA
5 2 (4.26%) MCSE
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CCIE
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (63.83%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (19.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.64%) SCCM
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Autotask
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.91%) VMware
3 11 (23.40%) Cisco
4 10 (21.28%) Meraki
5 7 (14.89%) Citrix
6 6 (12.77%) Sophos
7 5 (10.64%) Nasuni
7 5 (10.64%) Rapid7
8 4 (8.51%) Apple
8 4 (8.51%) HP
8 4 (8.51%) Veeam
9 2 (4.26%) Google
9 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
9 2 (4.26%) SAP
9 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.13%) Aruba
10 1 (2.13%) Avaya
10 1 (2.13%) Juniper
10 1 (2.13%) Oracle
10 1 (2.13%) Sage