WAN Jobs in Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 75 146
Rank change year-on-year -24 +71 -4
Permanent jobs citing WAN 51 171 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.83% 2.94% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.92% 21.76% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 35 129 122
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £29,625 £33,500 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £78,750 £63,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £78,750 £67,070
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.97% -7.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 428 786 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.34% 13.53% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 302 575 480
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,805 £31,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £50,938 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £74,119
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Yorkshire

WAN
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
South Yorkshire +55 16 £70,000 +64.71% 4
West Yorkshire -24 16 £80,000 +45.45% 11
North Yorkshire -26 12 £24,000 -20.00% 6
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.92%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.80%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.80%) GitHub
4 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.88%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.92%) Azure AI
6 2 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.92%) GCP
6 2 (3.92%) IaaS
6 2 (3.92%) PaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.92%) SaaS
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 40 (78.43%) LAN
2 31 (60.78%) Firewall
3 25 (49.02%) VPN
4 17 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 15 (29.41%) DNS
6 14 (27.45%) Wireless
7 13 (25.49%) SD-WAN
8 12 (23.53%) Network Security
9 8 (15.69%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (13.73%) DHCP
11 6 (11.76%) DWDM
12 5 (9.80%) BGP
12 5 (9.80%) MPLS
12 5 (9.80%) OSPF
12 5 (9.80%) SAN
12 5 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (7.84%) WebEx
14 3 (5.88%) HTTP
15 2 (3.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 2 (3.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.92%) MySQL
1 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.92%) Power BI
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) Spinnaker
4 2 (3.92%) Git
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Law
3 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Automotive
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Network Engineer
2 8 (15.69%) Analyst
3 7 (13.73%) IT Support
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Architect
4 6 (11.76%) IT Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Lead
5 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (9.80%) Support Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
7 3 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (5.88%) Senior IT Support Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) HTML
1 3 (5.88%) SOAP
1 3 (5.88%) XML
1 3 (5.88%) XSLT
2 2 (3.92%) LDAP
2 2 (3.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.88%) Clustering
3 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) NHS
4 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (47.06%) Windows
2 11 (21.57%) Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Unix
5 2 (3.92%) Solaris
6 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Migration
2 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (19.61%) Roadmaps
4 9 (17.65%) ITIL
5 8 (15.69%) ITSM
5 8 (15.69%) Network Architecture
5 8 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (13.73%) Incident Management
6 7 (13.73%) Line Management
7 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (11.76%) Runbook
7 6 (11.76%) Service Delivery
7 6 (11.76%) Service Management
7 6 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
7 6 (11.76%) Task Automation
7 6 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) Python
1 13 (25.49%) SQL
2 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.84%) Bash
4 3 (5.88%) C
4 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.88%) Jython
4 3 (5.88%) Perl
5 2 (3.92%) Bicep
5 2 (3.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (23.53%) CCNP
3 8 (15.69%) CCNA
4 7 (13.73%) Degree
5 6 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (11.76%) JNCIA
5 6 (11.76%) JNCIS
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.92%) CCSA
6 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.61%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.92%) KVM
4 2 (3.92%) NFS
4 2 (3.92%) SRDF
4 2 (3.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.92%) Xen
5 1 (1.96%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Ansible
2 10 (19.61%) Terraform
3 9 (17.65%) FortiGate
4 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
6 5 (9.80%) WSUS
7 3 (5.88%) Backup Exec
7 3 (5.88%) SCCM
8 2 (3.92%) Puppet
8 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 24 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (39.22%) Cisco
3 16 (31.37%) VMware
4 8 (15.69%) Meraki
5 6 (11.76%) Arista
5 6 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 6 (11.76%) Palo Alto
6 5 (9.80%) Draytek
6 5 (9.80%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (7.84%) Aruba
7 4 (7.84%) Mellanox
7 4 (7.84%) NVIDIA
8 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
8 3 (5.88%) Veritas
9 2 (3.92%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.92%) Databricks
9 2 (3.92%) EMC
9 2 (3.92%) Google
9 2 (3.92%) NetApp
9 2 (3.92%) Oracle