WAN Job Trends in Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 87 65
Rank change year-on-year -46 -22 +74
Permanent jobs citing WAN 66 52 175
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.14% 2.24% 3.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.05% 15.12% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 57 39 133
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £29,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £75,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £93,778 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% +1.06%

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 657 344 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.34% 14.79% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 315 264 575
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,575 £25,850
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £36,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -15.29% -
75th Percentile £48,125 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £73,886 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 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
West Yorkshire -25 27 £43,250 +35.69% 8
North Yorkshire -13 6 £43,750 +82.29% 3
East Yorkshire - 5 £29,500 - 1
South Yorkshire -48 4 £57,500 -17.86% 3
WAN
England

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 20 (30.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (6.06%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (62.12%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (48.48%) Azure
3 16 (24.24%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.06%) AWS
5 3 (4.55%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.03%) IaaS
6 2 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 64 (96.97%) LAN
2 25 (37.88%) DNS
3 24 (36.36%) DHCP
3 24 (36.36%) Firewall
3 24 (36.36%) VPN
4 15 (22.73%) VLAN
5 12 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 11 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 11 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (13.64%) Wireless
7 9 (13.64%) WLAN
8 8 (12.12%) VoIP
9 7 (10.61%) BGP
10 6 (9.09%) MPLS
11 5 (7.58%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (7.58%) Network Security
11 5 (7.58%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (6.06%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (6.06%) NAS
12 4 (6.06%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) GitLab
General
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Advertising
2 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
2 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Law
4 1 (1.52%) Legal
4 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) IT Support
2 22 (33.33%) Senior
3 19 (28.79%) IT Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) IT Support Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) Support Engineer
5 15 (22.73%) Support Technician
6 13 (19.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (19.70%) IT Support Technician
6 13 (19.70%) IT Technician
7 10 (15.15%) Network Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Senior IT Support
9 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Help Desk Adviser
10 5 (7.58%) Senior IT Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Senior Network Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Support Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Support Technician
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Driving Licence
2 14 (21.21%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (18.18%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.06%) PKI
4 4 (6.06%) Replication
5 3 (4.55%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.52%) NHS
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (75.76%) Windows
2 38 (57.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (12.12%) Windows 10
4 7 (10.61%) Android
5 6 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (6.06%) Linux
6 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.55%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 22 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 17 (25.76%) ITIL
4 14 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (19.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 12 (18.18%) ITSM
7 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.12%) Time Management
8 7 (10.61%) Data Loss Prevention
8 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (7.58%) Cloud Security
10 5 (7.58%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (7.58%) Process Improvement
11 4 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (6.06%) Preventative Maintenance
11 4 (6.06%) Service Management
11 4 (6.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 8 (12.12%) CCNA
3 7 (10.61%) A+ Certification
3 7 (10.61%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (7.58%) CCNP
4 5 (7.58%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.06%) NVQ Level 3
5 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) Degree
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (28.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (22.73%) Hyper-V
4 6 (9.09%) vSphere
5 4 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.06%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.03%) Firmware
6 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (12.12%) WSUS
3 7 (10.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (6.06%) Ansible
4 4 (6.06%) VxRail
5 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.52%) Kibana
5 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (28.79%) VMware
3 16 (24.24%) Cisco
4 11 (16.67%) Veeam
5 8 (12.12%) Meraki
6 6 (9.09%) Fortinet
7 4 (6.06%) Commvault
7 4 (6.06%) Dell
7 4 (6.06%) HP
7 4 (6.06%) Splunk
7 4 (6.06%) Tenable
7 4 (6.06%) Zerto
8 3 (4.55%) Google
8 3 (4.55%) WatchGuard
9 2 (3.03%) Apple
9 2 (3.03%) Datto
9 2 (3.03%) Huawei
9 2 (3.03%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.52%) LogRhythm
10 1 (1.52%) New Relic