WAN Jobs in South Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 85 124
Rank change year-on-year +48 +39 -24
Permanent jobs citing WAN 16 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.71% 0.88% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.85% 11.30% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 6
10th Percentile - £35,000 -
25th Percentile £24,000 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £55,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +57.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61,563 £84,919 -
90th Percentile £76,375 - £46,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £31,250 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -43.18% +22.22% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 135 115 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.32% 7.82% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 82 96 105
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,125 £24,400
25th Percentile £25,267 £29,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,875 £35,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -2.78% -34.55%
75th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £58,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,825 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.47% - -15.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in South Yorkshire

WAN
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Sheffield +49 13 £31,250 -50.00% 2
Barnsley - 2 £39,500 - 2
Doncaster - 1 £24,000 - 1
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) LAN
2 11 (68.75%) Firewall
3 9 (56.25%) VPN
4 8 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (50.00%) DNS
5 7 (43.75%) Network Security
6 6 (37.50%) DWDM
6 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
7 3 (18.75%) Wireless
8 2 (12.50%) FCoE
8 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
8 2 (12.50%) Multicast
8 2 (12.50%) NAS
8 2 (12.50%) SAN
8 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
9 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) ICT Support
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Digital Signage
1 3 (18.75%) EPoS
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Migration
2 8 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 6 (37.50%) Network Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Runbook
3 6 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) CCNP
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (37.50%) CCNA
2 6 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) JNCIA
2 6 (37.50%) JNCIS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCSA
3 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) KVM
2 2 (12.50%) NFS
2 2 (12.50%) SRDF
2 2 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Xen
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Arista
3 2 (12.50%) EMC
3 2 (12.50%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) arcserve
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Sophos