WAN Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 95 60
Rank change year-on-year -11 -35 +41
Permanent jobs citing WAN 40 15 77
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.98% 0.97% 3.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.60% 7.58% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34 14 48
10th Percentile £25,500 - £36,600
25th Percentile £34,125 £30,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £58,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -2.93% +10.65%
75th Percentile £69,230 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,500 £78,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,500 £30,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.33% -45.45% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 177 198 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.34% 12.76% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 120 145 207
10th Percentile £27,225 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -23.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,910 £58,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,500 £32,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.94% -24.71% -5.56%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Leeds -28 25 £62,500 -26.47% 3
Bradford - 8 £67,500 - 2
Wakefield -5 6 £31,000 - 3
Pontefract - 1 £65,000 - 2
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) IIS
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (47.50%) Azure
3 12 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (7.50%) IaaS
6 3 (7.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) AWS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 35 (87.50%) LAN
2 20 (50.00%) DNS
3 19 (47.50%) DHCP
4 16 (40.00%) Firewall
5 11 (27.50%) TCP/IP
6 10 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 9 (22.50%) VPN
8 8 (20.00%) Network Security
9 6 (15.00%) VLAN
10 5 (12.50%) Wireless
11 4 (10.00%) BGP
11 4 (10.00%) HTTP
11 4 (10.00%) NAS
11 4 (10.00%) OSPF
11 4 (10.00%) SAN
11 4 (10.00%) SSL
12 3 (7.50%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (7.50%) MPLS
12 3 (7.50%) VXLAN
12 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Power BI
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Legal
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Network Architect
4 6 (15.00%) IT Manager
4 6 (15.00%) IT Support
4 6 (15.00%) IT Support Technician
4 6 (15.00%) IT Technician
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Support Technician
5 5 (12.50%) Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) IT Operations Manager
5 5 (12.50%) Operations Manager
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Service Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Services Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Support
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 17 (42.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (7.50%) VMS
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (32.50%) ITSM
4 10 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (25.00%) ITIL
4 10 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 7 (17.50%) Customer Service
6 6 (15.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 6 (15.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 6 (15.00%) Business Forecasting
6 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.00%) Case Management
6 6 (15.00%) ERP
6 6 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (15.00%) Migration
6 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.00%) Service Management
7 5 (12.50%) AI
7 5 (12.50%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) XAML
4 1 (2.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (15.00%) A+ Certification
2 6 (15.00%) CCNP
2 6 (15.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 6 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (10.00%) CCIE
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (17.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.50%) vSphere
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (12.50%) VxRail
3 4 (10.00%) WSUS
4 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) Cisco
3 8 (20.00%) VMware
4 7 (17.50%) Juniper
5 5 (12.50%) Meraki
6 4 (10.00%) Commvault
6 4 (10.00%) Dell
6 4 (10.00%) HP
6 4 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 4 (10.00%) SAP
6 4 (10.00%) Tenable
6 4 (10.00%) Veeam
6 4 (10.00%) Zerto
7 2 (5.00%) Aruba
8 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds