WAN Jobs in Merseyside

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +22
Permanent jobs citing WAN 9 45 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.01% 3.42% 4.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.89% 24.19% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2 38 35
10th Percentile £31,375 - £26,150
25th Percentile £39,063 £23,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £44,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% +4.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £69,063 £66,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,125 £70,300 £58,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 91 186 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.36% 14.12% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 49 123 72
10th Percentile £26,150 £25,500 £27,025
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -0.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £35,250 £54,500 £55,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £71,250
North West median annual salary £32,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -27.22% -5.26% +2.15%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Merseyside over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 21 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
Liverpool +12 2 £80,000 +39.13% 2
WAN
North West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 7 (77.78%) VPN
3 6 (66.67%) MPLS
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Broadband
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Junior
1 6 (66.67%) Junior Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Junior Technical Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Junior Technical Support
1 6 (66.67%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Customer Service
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Time Management
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) CCSA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Proxmox
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto