WAN Jobs in the Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 80 150
Rank change year-on-year -6 +70 -44
Permanent jobs citing WAN 200 362 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.88% 3.10% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.98% 22.64% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 145 284 149
10th Percentile £28,350 £25,250 £25,725
25th Percentile £33,750 £30,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -0.59% -9.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £52,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £64,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.15% -2.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 834 1,599 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.01% 13.70% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 475 1,299 719
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Midlands

WAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN in the Midlands

WAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in the Midlands

WAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -12 172 £50,000 +19.05% 34
East Midlands +8 28 £54,000 +20.00% 24
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (2.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (57.50%) Azure
2 77 (38.50%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (9.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 18 (9.00%) AWS
5 10 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (2.00%) Route 53
7 3 (1.50%) IaaS
8 2 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.00%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.00%) PaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 131 (65.50%) LAN
2 76 (38.00%) Firewall
3 51 (25.50%) SD-WAN
4 34 (17.00%) VoIP
5 31 (15.50%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (15.00%) VPN
7 25 (12.50%) VLAN
8 24 (12.00%) Network Security
9 19 (9.50%) MPLS
10 17 (8.50%) BGP
11 16 (8.00%) DHCP
12 14 (7.00%) IPsec
13 13 (6.50%) DNS
13 13 (6.50%) Junos
14 12 (6.00%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (5.50%) Cisco Firepower
16 10 (5.00%) TCP/IP
17 8 (4.00%) Wireless
18 5 (2.50%) Internet
19 4 (2.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
General
1 69 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.50%) Retail
3 13 (6.50%) Finance
4 12 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.00%) Tech for Good
6 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.00%) Advertising
7 2 (1.00%) Law
7 2 (1.00%) Legal
7 2 (1.00%) Police
8 1 (0.50%) Electronics
8 1 (0.50%) Local Government
8 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (23.50%) IT Support
2 44 (22.00%) Architect
2 44 (22.00%) Network Architect
3 43 (21.50%) Support Engineer
4 30 (15.00%) IT Support Specialist
4 30 (15.00%) Support Specialist
5 27 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 27 (13.50%) Network Engineer
6 21 (10.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 20 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 20 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 20 (10.00%) Senior
8 13 (6.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 13 (6.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
9 12 (6.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (6.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Programme Manager
10 10 (5.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.00%) CCTV
2 19 (9.50%) Driving Licence
3 15 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.50%) ARM Cortex
5 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.50%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.50%) Clustering
7 1 (0.50%) PKI
7 1 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 102 (51.00%) Windows
2 50 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 39 (19.50%) Windows 10
4 22 (11.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.00%) Apple iOS
7 5 (2.50%) Linux
7 5 (2.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) Android
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (14.00%) Network Management
4 27 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (13.50%) Network Design
5 20 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 19 (9.50%) Data Security
7 17 (8.50%) Mentoring
8 16 (8.00%) Customer Service
8 16 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
9 15 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.50%) Zero Trust
12 11 (5.50%) Programme Management
13 10 (5.00%) Migration
13 10 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (4.50%) ITIL
14 9 (4.50%) Logistics
14 9 (4.50%) Presales
14 9 (4.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.00%) SQL
3 3 (1.50%) C
4 1 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 58 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.00%) Degree
4 34 (17.00%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (14.00%) CCNP
6 22 (11.00%) CCNA
7 16 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (7.00%) JNCIS
9 12 (6.00%) A+ Certification
9 12 (6.00%) MCP
9 12 (6.00%) MCSA
10 11 (5.50%) CCIE
11 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Certification
12 6 (3.00%) MCSE
13 5 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (1.00%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) SLA
2 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (2.00%) QA
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 82 (41.00%) Active Directory
2 27 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.00%) XenApp
4 5 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.50%) Firmware
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.00%) Ansible
2 2 (1.00%) SCCM
2 2 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Autotask
3 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.50%) SCOM
3 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.50%) VxRail
3 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 100 (50.00%) Cisco
2 77 (38.50%) Microsoft
3 49 (24.50%) Juniper
4 28 (14.00%) Meraki
4 28 (14.00%) VMware
5 19 (9.50%) CheckPoint
6 17 (8.50%) Fortinet
7 15 (7.50%) SolarWinds
8 14 (7.00%) Citrix
8 14 (7.00%) SonicWALL
9 13 (6.50%) Palo Alto
10 12 (6.00%) Aruba
11 10 (5.00%) HP
12 9 (4.50%) Dell
13 6 (3.00%) Avaya
13 6 (3.00%) McAfee
13 6 (3.00%) Zscaler
14 5 (2.50%) Apple
14 5 (2.50%) SAP
15 2 (1.00%) Veeam