WAN Job Trends in East Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > East Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East Yorkshire requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 26 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing WAN 7 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in East Yorkshire 3.54% 4.23% 3.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.94% 13.95% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile - £29,250 -
25th Percentile - £33,750 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £42,500 £34,750
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +22.30% +19.83%
75th Percentile - £43,750 £39,000
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £28,000 £60,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -53.33% +50.00% -7.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Yorkshire

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 East Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 64 43 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Yorkshire 32.32% 30.28% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 45 33 23
10th Percentile £28,000 - £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £25,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +34.92% -21.25%
75th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £42,749
90th Percentile £34,500 £62,500 £55,650
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,000 £45,445 £42,500
% change year-on-year -29.59% +6.93% -10.53%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in East Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East Yorkshire.

WAN job vacancy trend in East Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in East Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Job Locations in East Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the East Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Hull +3 7 £28,000 -34.12% 6
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) VLAN
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 7 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Network Management
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Apple
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Sage
1 7 (100.00%) SonicWALL