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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 October 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Wide Area Network (WAN) UK |
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6 months to
21 Oct 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
100 |
145 |
131 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+45 |
-14 |
-24 |
| Permanent jobs citing WAN |
4,267 |
3,851 |
4,580 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
3.12% |
2.35% |
2.63% |
| As % of the Communications & Networking category |
20.04% |
15.84% |
16.54% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
3,155 |
3,180 |
3,902 |
| UK median annual salary |
£42,500 |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
-5.56% |
- |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£24,750 |
£25,750 |
£25,000 |
| 90th Percentile |
£72,500 |
£75,000 |
£70,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
£40,000 |
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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.
| All Communications and Computer Networking Skills UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills |
21,291 |
24,311 |
27,697 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
15.55% |
14.86% |
15.90% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
16,347 |
19,238 |
22,533 |
| UK median annual salary |
£45,750 |
£47,500 |
£45,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
-3.68% |
+5.56% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£25,750 |
£25,925 |
£25,750 |
| 90th Percentile |
£77,500 |
£75,000 |
£71,250 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£42,500 |
£42,500 |
£40,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
- |
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WAN
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing WAN as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
WAN
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN.
WAN
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing WAN over the 6 months to 21 October 2019.
WAN
Top 17 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the UK over the 6 months to 21 October 2019.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
+46 |
4,043 |
£43,000 |
-4.44% |
616 |
| UK excluding London |
+46 |
2,936 |
£40,000 |
- |
491 |
| London |
+32 |
1,231 |
£50,000 |
-4.76% |
156 |
| North of England |
+70 |
940 |
£40,500 |
+1.25% |
118 |
| South East |
+24 |
803 |
£42,500 |
-5.56% |
146 |
| Yorkshire |
+87 |
626 |
£40,000 |
+6.67% |
33 |
| Midlands |
+33 |
528 |
£40,000 |
- |
100 |
| West Midlands |
+17 |
325 |
£44,500 |
+11.25% |
59 |
| South West |
+38 |
288 |
£40,000 |
- |
49 |
| North West |
+14 |
286 |
£42,500 |
- |
73 |
| East of England |
+25 |
239 |
£37,000 |
-7.50% |
47 |
| East Midlands |
+34 |
203 |
£34,650 |
-11.52% |
41 |
| Scotland |
-19 |
67 |
£32,000 |
-26.01% |
17 |
| Wales |
-23 |
36 |
£42,500 |
+13.33% |
11 |
| Northern Ireland |
+6 |
32 |
£29,750 |
+41.67% |
3 |
| North East |
+10 |
28 |
£24,000 |
-20.00% |
12 |
| Isle of Man |
- |
5 |
£60,000 |
- |
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For the 6 months to 21 October 2019, IT jobs citing WAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for WAN.
| 1 |
3,193 (74.83%) |
LAN |
| 2 |
2,210 (51.79%) |
Cisco |
| 3 |
2,109 (49.43%) |
Firewall |
| 4 |
1,751 (41.04%) |
Cisco Certification |
| 5 |
1,554 (36.42%) |
Windows |
| 6 |
1,331 (31.19%) |
CCNP |
| 7 |
1,295 (30.35%) |
Microsoft |
| 8 |
1,224 (28.69%) |
Active Directory |
| 9 |
1,033 (24.21%) |
VPN |
| 10 |
1,032 (24.19%) |
CCNA |
| 11 |
1,018 (23.86%) |
MPLS |
| 12 |
1,014 (23.76%) |
VMware |
| 13 |
1,002 (23.48%) |
DNS |
| 14 |
939 (22.01%) |
Network Security |
| 15 |
902 (21.14%) |
Office 365 |
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WAN
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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