WAN Jobs in the East Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 148 94
Rank change year-on-year +28 -54 +15
Permanent jobs citing WAN 32 50 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.19% 1.04% 2.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.86% 8.67% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27 48 56
10th Percentile £30,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £30,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - £57,500 £66,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.15% -7.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 407 577 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.16% 11.96% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 158 470 206
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,813 £30,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.19%
75th Percentile £54,229 £52,500 £55,938
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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

WAN
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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +3 14 £49,250 +40.71% 33
Northamptonshire +4 10 £65,000 +145.28% 20
Leicestershire +42 3 £62,500 -7.41% 13
Nottinghamshire +16 3 £26,500 -47.00% 20
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 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (18.75%) IaaS
4 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.50%) PaaS
5 3 (9.38%) Mimecast
5 3 (9.38%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.25%) Azure AI
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (75.00%) Firewall
2 23 (71.88%) LAN
3 17 (53.13%) SD-WAN
4 12 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (34.38%) VPN
6 10 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (25.00%) Wireless
8 6 (18.75%) DNS
9 5 (15.63%) DHCP
9 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
10 4 (12.50%) Internet
10 4 (12.50%) Network Security
11 3 (9.38%) VLAN
12 1 (3.13%) MPLS
12 1 (3.13%) PBX
12 1 (3.13%) SAN
12 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Project Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (21.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco Support
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco Support Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) ARM Cortex
1 3 (9.38%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 9 (28.13%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Presales
1 9 (28.13%) Zero Trust
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Project Management
3 5 (15.63%) Migration
3 5 (15.63%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
4 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (12.50%) RBAC
5 3 (9.38%) Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Business Continuity
5 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (9.38%) Identity Management
5 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.38%) Preventative Maintenance
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.38%) C
3 2 (6.25%) Bicep
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (31.25%) CCNP
3 9 (28.13%) CCIE
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) CCSA
6 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) Firmware
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.13%) Autotask
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Meraki
2 13 (40.63%) Cisco
3 10 (31.25%) Fortinet
3 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (31.25%) Palo Alto
4 9 (28.13%) Aruba
4 9 (28.13%) HP
5 5 (15.63%) VMware
6 3 (9.38%) Nasuni
6 3 (9.38%) Rapid7
7 2 (6.25%) Databricks
8 1 (3.13%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint