WAN Job Trends in Northumberland

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North East > Northumberland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northumberland requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northumberland 3.23% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 - -
North East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -10.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northumberland 6.45% 31.03% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £23,358 £38,600 -
25th Percentile £25,965 £45,875 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,310 £61,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.31% +125.93% -18.18%
75th Percentile £34,655 £64,000 £27,500
90th Percentile £37,262 - -
North East median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% +1.96%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Northumberland

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Northumberland

WAN
Salary Trend in Northumberland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northumberland citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northumberland citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northumberland 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds