WAN Jobs in Staffordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 44 44
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +10
Permanent jobs citing WAN 28 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 2.77% 3.78% 3.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.54% 16.53% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25 19 24
10th Percentile £21,000 £30,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,250 £32,000 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £36,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -33.18% +83.33%
75th Percentile £50,250 £45,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,250 £72,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -1.18% -17.07% +20.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 121 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 14.95% 22.87% 22.30%
Number of salaries quoted 118 79 93
10th Percentile £25,600 £22,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.51%
75th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,750 £64,500
West Midlands median annual salary £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -4.76%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Staffordshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Staffordshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Staffordshire

WAN
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 18 £34,500 - 4
Leek +3 3 - -
Cannock - 3 £26,000 -
Tamworth -17 2 £51,250 +60.16% 2
WAN
West Midlands

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (89.29%) LAN
2 11 (39.29%) SD-WAN
3 9 (32.14%) TCP/IP
4 8 (28.57%) BGP
4 8 (28.57%) MPLS
4 8 (28.57%) OSPF
4 8 (28.57%) WLAN
5 7 (25.00%) VLAN
6 6 (21.43%) Firewall
7 5 (17.86%) Ethernet
7 5 (17.86%) PBX
7 5 (17.86%) Unified Communications
8 4 (14.29%) DNS
8 4 (14.29%) VPN
9 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (7.14%) DHCP
11 1 (3.57%) Wireless
11 1 (3.57%) Wireless Security
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Network Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Network Operations Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Technician
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Senior IT Technician
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Technician
4 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Support Technician
6 1 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) CRM
1 5 (17.86%) Customer Experience
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (17.86%) Time Management
2 4 (14.29%) Migration
2 4 (14.29%) Server Management
3 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (10.71%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (10.71%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (10.71%) ITSM
3 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Service Management
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.57%) Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Application Security
5 1 (3.57%) Behavioural Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) CCNA
1 12 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (28.57%) CCDP
2 8 (28.57%) CCIE
2 8 (28.57%) CCNP
3 4 (14.29%) MCSE
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Salesforce
2 5 (17.86%) VMware
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) HP
3 4 (14.29%) Ruckus Wireless
4 3 (10.71%) Avaya
4 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.71%) Zscaler