WAN Job Trends in Leeds

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 68 67
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +67
Permanent jobs citing WAN 8 23 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.61% 2.12% 3.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.02% 23.00% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 36
10th Percentile - £29,000 £30,063
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -28.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £31,000 £48,438 £57,813
90th Percentile £44,100 £83,750 £73,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £30,000 £37,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year -20.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 114 100 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.62% 9.23% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 89 61 109
10th Percentile - £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,755 £80,000 £85,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £36,500 £45,223 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.29% -9.56% +11.11%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Leeds

WAN
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Leeds over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Leeds

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless
5 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Help Desk Technician
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support Technician
1 3 (37.50%) IT Technician
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior IT Support
1 3 (37.50%) Senior IT Technician
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Support Technician
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Technician
1 3 (37.50%) Support Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Android
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Customer Service
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) ITSM
4 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (37.50%) Service Management
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) JDA
3 3 (37.50%) RedPrairie
3 3 (37.50%) Veeam
4 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
4 1 (12.50%) New Relic