WAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 146 104
Rank change year-on-year +92 -42 +6
Permanent jobs citing WAN 289 132 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.98% 1.99% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.67% 11.63% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 236 105 191
10th Percentile £24,696 £25,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £30,875 £32,000 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52,813 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £61,875 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,008 1,135 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.88% 17.13% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 835 519 718
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,875 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,500 £72,500
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the West Midlands

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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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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 +53 115 £42,000 -23.64% 18
Warwickshire +90 55 £41,407 -35.30% 6
Staffordshire -5 28 £45,000 +13.92% 9
Shropshire +8 27 £36,500 +40.38% 4
Worcestershire -3 24 £48,500 +7.18% 2
Solihull +17 16 £31,250 +2.46% 8
Coventry +36 11 £42,000 +5.00%
Wednesbury - 2 £30,000 -
Brierley Hill - 2 £29,750 -
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England

WAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (11.07%) IIS
2 29 (10.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (9.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 36 (12.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 93 (32.18%) Azure
2 53 (18.34%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (9.69%) AWS
4 18 (6.23%) Entra ID
5 16 (5.54%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (4.15%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.04%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.69%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 174 (60.21%) LAN
2 104 (35.99%) SD-WAN
3 100 (34.60%) Firewall
4 75 (25.95%) MPLS
5 59 (20.42%) TCP/IP
6 55 (19.03%) WLAN
7 54 (18.69%) BGP
8 46 (15.92%) DNS
9 45 (15.57%) VLAN
9 45 (15.57%) Wireless
10 43 (14.88%) DHCP
11 42 (14.53%) OSPF
12 29 (10.03%) VPN
13 25 (8.65%) IPsec
13 25 (8.65%) VoIP
14 23 (7.96%) SAN
14 23 (7.96%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (5.19%) Network Security
16 11 (3.81%) Ethernet
16 11 (3.81%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.73%) JIRA
2 4 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.65%) Retail
3 22 (7.61%) Finance
4 21 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.42%) Law
9 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.38%) Police
11 2 (0.69%) Electronics
11 2 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (22.15%) Senior
2 50 (17.30%) Analyst
3 48 (16.61%) Network Engineer
4 34 (11.76%) Network Analyst
5 32 (11.07%) Network Operations Analyst
5 32 (11.07%) Operations Analyst
6 31 (10.73%) Architect
7 30 (10.38%) Systems Engineer
8 27 (9.34%) Support Engineer
9 21 (7.27%) Administrator
10 20 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
12 16 (5.54%) Systems Administrator
13 15 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 15 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (4.84%) Senior Architect
14 14 (4.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 11 (3.81%) Cisco Architect
15 11 (3.81%) Senior Cisco Architect
16 10 (3.46%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.57%) REST
1 19 (6.57%) WebRTC
2 2 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.46%) Clustering
2 26 (9.00%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 17 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 13 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.81%) Wiki
6 10 (3.46%) PKI
7 9 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.42%) FMCG
9 6 (2.08%) Cyberattack
9 6 (2.08%) IoT
10 4 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.69%) EPoS
12 2 (0.69%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.35%) Replication
13 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.84%) Windows
2 36 (12.46%) Windows Server
3 19 (6.57%) Windows 10
4 11 (3.81%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.08%) Linux
6 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.38%) CentOS
7 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.38%) VMS
8 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.69%) Android
9 2 (0.69%) Unix
10 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (14.19%) High Availability
3 37 (12.80%) Load Balancing
4 33 (11.42%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (8.65%) Customer Service
8 21 (7.27%) Patch Management
9 20 (6.92%) Project Delivery
9 20 (6.92%) Time Management
10 19 (6.57%) Capacity Planning
11 18 (6.23%) ITIL
11 18 (6.23%) Network Monitoring
12 17 (5.88%) CI/CD
13 16 (5.54%) CRM
13 16 (5.54%) Roadmaps
14 14 (4.84%) Validation
15 13 (4.50%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (4.50%) Software Testing
15 13 (4.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.65%) SQL
2 29 (10.03%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.50%) Java
4 11 (3.81%) Perl
4 11 (3.81%) Python
5 4 (1.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (27.68%) Cisco Certification
2 78 (26.99%) Security Cleared
3 67 (23.18%) CCNP
4 63 (21.80%) CCNA
5 60 (20.76%) SC Cleared
6 41 (14.19%) Degree
7 40 (13.84%) CCIE
8 33 (11.42%) CCDP
9 15 (5.19%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.11%) DBS Check
12 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.42%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (2.08%) MCSE
15 5 (1.73%) CISM
15 5 (1.73%) CISSP
16 4 (1.38%) JNCIA
17 3 (1.04%) CCDA
17 3 (1.04%) CCSP
17 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.42%) NIST
2 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (1.73%) QA
2 5 (1.73%) SLA
3 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 67 (23.18%) Active Directory
2 49 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (9.00%) Hyper-V
4 22 (7.61%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.42%) Firmware
6 6 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.08%) vSphere
7 5 (1.73%) NFS
8 4 (1.38%) pfSense
8 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.38%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.08%) Stealthwatch
3 5 (1.73%) CASB
3 5 (1.73%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.38%) Autotask
4 4 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.38%) SCCM
4 4 (1.38%) Terraform
4 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.04%) Ansible
5 3 (1.04%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 120 (41.52%) Microsoft
2 92 (31.83%) Cisco
3 78 (26.99%) VMware
4 54 (18.69%) Juniper
5 23 (7.96%) CheckPoint
6 20 (6.92%) Meraki
7 17 (5.88%) Apple
7 17 (5.88%) Fortinet
8 14 (4.84%) Veeam
9 12 (4.15%) Aruba
9 12 (4.15%) HP
10 11 (3.81%) Adobe
10 11 (3.81%) Palo Alto
10 11 (3.81%) SolarWinds
11 9 (3.11%) Avaya
11 9 (3.11%) F5
12 8 (2.77%) Dell
12 8 (2.77%) Ekahau
12 8 (2.77%) Sophos
12 8 (2.77%) Zscaler