WAN Jobs in West Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 59 134
Rank change year-on-year -32 +75 -16
Permanent jobs citing WAN 16 112 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.16% 3.63% 2.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.88% 24.40% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15 93 64
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £33,003
25th Percentile £29,250 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.48% +2.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £93,000 £78,750 £77,715
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
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 162 459 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.78% 14.88% 12.07%
Number of salaries quoted 107 318 277
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £51,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +11.35% -6.57%
75th Percentile £71,875 £65,625 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,500 £78,750 £77,715
Yorkshire median annual salary £31,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.06% - -15.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Leeds -9 12 £85,000 +42.86% 20
Brighouse -4 2 £30,750 +2.50%
Huddersfield +12 1 £30,500 -49.17% 1
Wakefield +11 1 £31,000 +10.71% 12
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) LAN
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
4 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (18.75%) Firewall
5 3 (18.75%) Wireless
6 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (6.25%) Network Security
7 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Lead
2 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) IT Support
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Support Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (43.75%) Network Virtualisation
1 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
2 6 (37.50%) Business Strategy
2 6 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
2 6 (37.50%) Strategic Planning
2 6 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) B2B
5 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
5 1 (6.25%) ERP
5 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
5 1 (6.25%) Service Management
5 1 (6.25%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.25%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CCNP
1 1 (6.25%) CCSA
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Backup Exec
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco
1 7 (43.75%) Fortinet
1 7 (43.75%) Palo Alto
2 6 (37.50%) Aruba
2 6 (37.50%) Mellanox
2 6 (37.50%) NVIDIA
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) Veritas
5 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) Meraki