WAN Jobs in Leicestershire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 104 77
Rank change year-on-year +38 -27 +8
Permanent jobs citing WAN 3 2 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.43% 0.17% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.50% 1.63% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £46,000 £63,000 £34,100
25th Percentile £51,250 £63,750 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +28.57% +23.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £55,625
90th Percentile £79,000 £72,000 £56,250
East Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 123 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.73% 10.69% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27 75 44
10th Percentile - £24,500 £25,375
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,230 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £40,000 £41,885
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.50% +13.97%
75th Percentile £57,000 £48,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,200 £56,250 £56,500
East Midlands median annual salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -5.88%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Leicestershire

WAN
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Leicestershire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Leicestershire

WAN
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leicester +38 3 £62,500 -7.41% 1
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Technical Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) VMware