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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 112 118
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing WAN 257 200 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.21% 2.63% 2.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.54% 13.91% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 200 170 306
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,250 £40,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -18.78% +15.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,598 £62,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 1,386 1,438 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.93% 18.94% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 947 710 1,127
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,813 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £44,625 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -6.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,819 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +31 199 £37,500 -11.76% 22
East Midlands -55 52 £44,750 +19.33% 7
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 35 (13.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (10.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 23 (8.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.78%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.13%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (35.41%) Azure
3 24 (9.34%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.61%) AWS
5 11 (4.28%) OneDrive
6 10 (3.89%) Mimecast
6 10 (3.89%) Nutanix
7 8 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.95%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.17%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.78%) SaaS
12 1 (0.39%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.39%) IaaS
12 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 152 (59.14%) LAN
2 95 (36.96%) SD-WAN
3 89 (34.63%) Firewall
4 55 (21.40%) DNS
5 52 (20.23%) TCP/IP
6 51 (19.84%) DHCP
7 48 (18.68%) MPLS
8 45 (17.51%) VLAN
9 43 (16.73%) VPN
10 37 (14.40%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (12.84%) Wireless
12 27 (10.51%) IPsec
13 26 (10.12%) BGP
14 25 (9.73%) WLAN
15 22 (8.56%) SAN
16 19 (7.39%) Network Security
17 17 (6.61%) VoIP
18 15 (5.84%) Cisco Firepower
19 14 (5.45%) OSPF
20 12 (4.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.56%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.45%) MySQL
3 6 (2.33%) Power BI
4 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.56%) JIRA
2 3 (1.17%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.61%) Retail
4 14 (5.45%) Finance
4 14 (5.45%) Law
5 10 (3.89%) Automotive
6 8 (3.11%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.95%) Legal
9 4 (1.56%) Police
9 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Electronics
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (21.40%) Network Engineer
2 52 (20.23%) Senior
3 36 (14.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (11.67%) Architect
5 26 (10.12%) Analyst
5 26 (10.12%) IT Engineer
5 26 (10.12%) WAN Engineer
6 25 (9.73%) IT Support
7 21 (8.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 21 (8.17%) Support Engineer
8 18 (7.00%) Administrator
9 17 (6.61%) Cisco Architect
9 17 (6.61%) Senior Architect
9 17 (6.61%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 16 (6.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.84%) Security Architect
12 14 (5.45%) Technical Support
13 13 (5.06%) IT Analyst
13 13 (5.06%) Senior Network Engineer
14 12 (4.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.50%) HTML
2 2 (0.78%) LDAP
2 2 (0.78%) REST
2 2 (0.78%) SAML
2 2 (0.78%) ServiceStack
2 2 (0.78%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.39%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.40%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.61%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.84%) PKI
4 13 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.50%) Clustering
6 8 (3.11%) Wiki
7 7 (2.72%) FMCG
8 6 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.33%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.95%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.17%) IoT
12 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.78%) EPoS
12 2 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 107 (41.63%) Windows
2 80 (31.13%) Windows Server
3 29 (11.28%) Windows Server 2019
4 26 (10.12%) Windows 10
5 17 (6.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (6.23%) Linux
7 8 (3.11%) Android
8 7 (2.72%) VMS
8 7 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.95%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.95%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.56%) CentOS
10 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.39%) SUSE
13 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (18.68%) Cybersecurity
3 42 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (10.12%) ITIL
4 26 (10.12%) Patch Management
5 25 (9.73%) Time Management
6 21 (8.17%) Service Management
7 19 (7.39%) Load Balancing
7 19 (7.39%) Project Delivery
8 18 (7.00%) Analytics
8 18 (7.00%) Customer Service
9 17 (6.61%) Customer Engagement
9 17 (6.61%) Presales
9 17 (6.61%) Software Licensing
10 16 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.84%) Roadmaps
12 14 (5.45%) Computer Science
12 14 (5.45%) Migration
13 13 (5.06%) Ticket Management
14 12 (4.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.06%) PowerShell
2 28 (10.89%) SQL
3 10 (3.89%) Python
4 9 (3.50%) PHP
5 8 (3.11%) Perl
6 6 (2.33%) Bash
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
7 2 (0.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (22.96%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (20.62%) Security Cleared
3 49 (19.07%) CCNP
4 48 (18.68%) Degree
5 44 (17.12%) SC Cleared
6 41 (15.95%) CCNA
7 18 (7.00%) CCIE
8 12 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (4.67%) MCSE
8 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (4.28%) Azure Certification
9 11 (4.28%) CCDP
10 10 (3.89%) DBS Check
11 7 (2.72%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 5 (1.95%) CISM
12 5 (1.95%) CISSP
12 5 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.06%) SLA
2 8 (3.11%) NIST
3 7 (2.72%) QA
4 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 103 (40.08%) Active Directory
2 49 (19.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (14.01%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.50%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (3.11%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.72%) Firmware
6 7 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.95%) vSphere
8 4 (1.56%) NFS
8 4 (1.56%) pfSense
8 4 (1.56%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.17%) Docker
9 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.06%) SCCM
3 12 (4.67%) Stealthwatch
4 7 (2.72%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.95%) CASB
6 4 (1.56%) Autotask
6 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.17%) Terraform
8 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.78%) SCOM
8 2 (0.78%) VxRail
9 1 (0.39%) Ansible
9 1 (0.39%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 106 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 90 (35.02%) Cisco
3 68 (26.46%) VMware
4 41 (15.95%) Meraki
5 37 (14.40%) Juniper
6 30 (11.67%) Apple
7 19 (7.39%) Fortinet
8 17 (6.61%) Adobe
8 17 (6.61%) Veeam
9 15 (5.84%) CheckPoint
10 14 (5.45%) HP
11 12 (4.67%) SolarWinds
12 11 (4.28%) Dell
13 10 (3.89%) Avaya
13 10 (3.89%) Palo Alto
13 10 (3.89%) Rapid7
14 9 (3.50%) Sophos
15 8 (3.11%) Nasuni
15 8 (3.11%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.72%) Ekahau