WAN Job Trends in Solihull

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing WAN 5 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 3.82% 3.33% 5.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 17.24% 58.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile - - £36,000
25th Percentile £51,250 - £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £35,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -42.62% +100.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £45,625 £61,700
90th Percentile £54,500 £64,750 £64,020
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +9.57% -1.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 29 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 17.56% 19.33% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9 25 12
10th Percentile £43,700 £35,000 £26,275
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +29.73% +58.12%
75th Percentile £53,750 £81,250 £61,700
90th Percentile £54,000 - £66,920
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Solihull

WAN
Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Meraki
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) SonicWALL
1 4 (80.00%) Veeam
1 4 (80.00%) VMware