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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 73 141
Rank change year-on-year -39 +68 -7
Permanent jobs citing WAN 53 177 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.70% 2.82% 2.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.01% 22.10% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 33 133 111
10th Percentile £24,000 £27,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £67,070
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.15% -7.00%

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 588 801 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.82% 12.74% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 347 571 461
10th Percentile £25,084 £26,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £62,833
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £76,316
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +46 19 £24,000 -56.36% 7
West Yorkshire -30 17 £56,250 -2.17% 18
North Yorkshire -38 11 £30,000 -1.64% 11
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 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
3 2 (3.77%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.43%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.66%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.77%) Azure AI
5 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.77%) IaaS
5 2 (3.77%) PaaS
5 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (83.02%) LAN
2 25 (47.17%) Firewall
3 21 (39.62%) Wireless
4 18 (33.96%) VPN
5 16 (30.19%) TCP/IP
6 14 (26.42%) DNS
6 14 (26.42%) Network Security
7 9 (16.98%) SD-WAN
8 8 (15.09%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (11.32%) DWDM
9 6 (11.32%) WLAN
10 5 (9.43%) BGP
10 5 (9.43%) DHCP
10 5 (9.43%) MPLS
10 5 (9.43%) OSPF
10 5 (9.43%) SAN
11 2 (3.77%) Internet
11 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
11 2 (3.77%) NAS
11 2 (3.77%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.77%) MySQL
1 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.77%) Power BI
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.77%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Lead
3 8 (15.09%) ICT Support
4 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Manager
4 6 (11.32%) IT Support
5 4 (7.55%) Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Consultant
5 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Core Network Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Senior IT Support
6 3 (5.66%) Senior IT Support Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Support Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) LDAP
1 2 (3.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Digital Signage
1 8 (15.09%) EPoS
1 8 (15.09%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (13.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.43%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.66%) Clustering
6 2 (3.77%) NHS
6 2 (3.77%) Replication
7 1 (1.89%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.89%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.19%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Solaris
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Migration
2 10 (18.87%) ITIL
2 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
3 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (16.98%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (15.09%) Asset Management
4 8 (15.09%) Business Strategy
4 8 (15.09%) Customer Service
4 8 (15.09%) ITSM
4 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (13.21%) Customer-Centricity
5 7 (13.21%) Strategic Planning
5 7 (13.21%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
6 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (11.32%) Runbook
6 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery
6 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
6 6 (11.32%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) Python
2 11 (20.75%) SQL
3 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.77%) Bicep
4 2 (3.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) CCNP
1 13 (24.53%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.87%) CCNA
3 6 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) JNCIA
3 6 (11.32%) JNCIS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) CCSA
4 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.89%) MCSE
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.09%) Hyper-V
3 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.77%) KVM
4 2 (3.77%) NFS
4 2 (3.77%) SRDF
4 2 (3.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.77%) Xen
5 1 (1.89%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Ansible
2 13 (24.53%) Terraform
3 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
5 5 (9.43%) FortiGate
5 5 (9.43%) WSUS
6 3 (5.66%) Backup Exec
6 3 (5.66%) SCCM
7 2 (3.77%) Puppet
7 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) Cisco
2 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.75%) VMware
4 9 (16.98%) Fortinet
4 9 (16.98%) Palo Alto
5 7 (13.21%) Aruba
5 7 (13.21%) Mellanox
5 7 (13.21%) NVIDIA
6 6 (11.32%) Arista
6 6 (11.32%) Meraki
7 5 (9.43%) Draytek
7 5 (9.43%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (5.66%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.66%) Veritas
9 2 (3.77%) Databricks
9 2 (3.77%) EMC
9 2 (3.77%) F5
9 2 (3.77%) Google
9 2 (3.77%) NetApp
9 2 (3.77%) Oracle