WAN Jobs in Birmingham

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 51 95
Rank change year-on-year +27 +44 -3
Permanent jobs citing WAN 112 112 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.59% 4.12% 2.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.45% 29.63% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 70 90 34
10th Percentile £29,550 £26,700 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £46,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -23.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -2.17%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 222 378 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.05% 13.91% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 132 310 205
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £33,188 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -15.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,413 £63,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,750 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £43,227 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.04% -3.94% -

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

WAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for WAN in Birmingham

WAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Birmingham

WAN
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 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (55.36%) Azure
2 60 (53.57%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.14%) AWS
4 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (3.57%) Route 53
5 1 (0.89%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 67 (59.82%) LAN
2 31 (27.68%) Firewall
3 30 (26.79%) VoIP
4 18 (16.07%) SD-WAN
5 14 (12.50%) MPLS
6 13 (11.61%) BGP
6 13 (11.61%) VPN
6 13 (11.61%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (9.82%) IPsec
7 11 (9.82%) Junos
8 10 (8.93%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (8.04%) DNS
10 8 (7.14%) DHCP
11 7 (6.25%) VLAN
12 6 (5.36%) Network Security
13 4 (3.57%) HTTPS
14 2 (1.79%) Internet
14 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
14 2 (1.79%) WLAN
15 1 (0.89%) SAN
General
1 32 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (26.79%) Retail
3 10 (8.93%) Tech for Good
4 7 (6.25%) Finance
5 6 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Advertising
7 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Architect
1 39 (34.82%) Network Architect
2 30 (26.79%) IT Support
2 30 (26.79%) IT Support Specialist
2 30 (26.79%) Support Specialist
3 21 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 14 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 13 (11.61%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) 3rd Line Support
5 13 (11.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 12 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Programme Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.79%) CCTV
2 14 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 60 (53.57%) Windows
2 36 (32.14%) Windows 10
3 26 (23.21%) Windows Server
4 20 (17.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.57%) Linux
7 1 (0.89%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (23.21%) Network Management
3 25 (22.32%) Network Design
4 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (16.07%) Infrastructure Management
6 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
7 14 (12.50%) Data Security
8 12 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (8.93%) Programme Management
10 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (5.36%) Customer Service
12 6 (5.36%) Logistics
13 5 (4.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (4.46%) Migration
14 4 (3.57%) Identity Management
14 4 (3.57%) Load Balancing
14 4 (3.57%) Problem Management
14 4 (3.57%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (27.68%) Degree
4 16 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (13.39%) CCNA
6 14 (12.50%) CCNP
7 11 (9.82%) JNCIS
8 10 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (5.36%) A+ Certification
9 6 (5.36%) AWS Certification
9 6 (5.36%) MCP
9 6 (5.36%) MCSA
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.79%) CCIE
11 2 (1.79%) CITP
12 1 (0.89%) CCSA
12 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (0.89%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 56 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.50%) XenApp
4 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.79%) Ansible
2 2 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (53.57%) Cisco
2 42 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 39 (34.82%) Juniper
4 17 (15.18%) Meraki
4 17 (15.18%) VMware
5 16 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 14 (12.50%) Citrix
6 14 (12.50%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.79%) Aruba
7 2 (1.79%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.89%) ADVA
8 1 (0.89%) HP
8 1 (0.89%) Veeam