WAN Job Trends in Herefordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Herefordshire 0.82% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £41,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Herefordshire 11.48% 7.23% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +100.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £72,750 - £31,875
90th Percentile £76,000 - £33,000
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £43,871
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.97% -7.64%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Herefordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing WAN

WAN
Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Hereford - 1 £57,500 - 1
WAN
West Midlands

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft