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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 75 73
Rank change year-on-year -37 -2 +68
Permanent jobs citing WAN 10 35 72
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.55% 2.31% 3.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.48% 23.18% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 66
10th Percentile - £29,000 £28,875
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £37,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -23.08% +2.63%
75th Percentile £40,950 £83,750 £57,438
90th Percentile £58,750 £93,778 £64,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £28,000 £37,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -25.33% -19.35% +9.41%

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 223 151 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.36% 9.97% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 103 82 220
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £28,625 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £45,223 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% -9.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £82,250 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% +5.88% -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 30 December 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 December 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 -28 8 £30,000 -11.11% 10
Bradford -16 1 £39,900 +6.40% 3
Castleford - 1 £55,000 -
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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) LAN
2 6 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
5 1 (10.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Help Desk Technician
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support Technician
1 3 (30.00%) IT Technician
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior IT Support
1 3 (30.00%) Senior IT Technician
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Support Technician
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Technician
1 3 (30.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Android
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) ITSM
4 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (30.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) JDA
3 3 (30.00%) RedPrairie
3 3 (30.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm
4 1 (10.00%) New Relic