WAN Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary in the West Midlands is £27,400 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 263 267
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 17 7 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.11% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.12% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 18
10th Percentile £26,385 - £39,550
25th Percentile £26,700 - £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,400 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.92%
75th Percentile £28,588 - £57,500
90th Percentile £34,550 - -
England median annual salary £51,250 £35,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +46.43% -36.36% -2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,834 5,948 6,892
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.04% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,169 3,359 4,788
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,941
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN Engineer in the West Midlands

WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN Engineer in the West Midlands

WAN Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham -3 12 £27,400 -
Solihull - 5 £31,250 - 3
WAN Engineer
England

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, WAN Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) WAN
2 16 (94.12%) Juniper
3 14 (82.35%) MPLS
3 14 (82.35%) IPsec
4 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
5 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
6 6 (35.29%) PKI
6 6 (35.29%) VPN
7 5 (29.41%) BGP
7 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
8 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
9 1 (5.88%) Snow
9 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
9 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
9 1 (5.88%) Meraki
9 1 (5.88%) Project Management
9 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
9 1 (5.88%) Firewall
9 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1 (5.88%) Cisco
9 1 (5.88%) CCNP
9 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
9 1 (5.88%) ITIL
9 1 (5.88%) LAN
9 1 (5.88%) WLAN

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) WAN
2 14 (82.35%) IPsec
2 14 (82.35%) MPLS
3 6 (35.29%) VPN
4 5 (29.41%) BGP
5 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.88%) Firewall
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
2 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL
2 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (5.88%) Project Management
2 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Juniper
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Meraki
2 1 (5.88%) Snow
2 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds