WAN Jobs in Cheshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 51 87
Rank change year-on-year -26 +36 -30
Permanent jobs citing WAN 28 38 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.73% 4.25% 1.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.74% 16.89% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 24 37 16
10th Percentile £24,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £40,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £37,500 £51,450
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -27.11% +2.90%
75th Percentile £38,750 £48,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - £48,300 £57,125
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -9.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 190 225 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.74% 25.17% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 154 114 74
10th Percentile £24,840 £25,420 £25,150
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,330 £29,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £42,500 £42,637
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -0.32% +1.52%
75th Percentile £53,438 £55,000 £55,938
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £61,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Cheshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Cheshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Cheshire

WAN
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Alderley Edge - 8 £27,750 -
Warrington -34 6 £50,000 +48.15% 3
Chester +11 5 £37,500 -14.29% 3
Northwich - 5 £37,500 - 1
WAN
North West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) LAN
2 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
3 9 (32.14%) DHCP
3 9 (32.14%) DNS
4 6 (21.43%) Firewall
5 5 (17.86%) WLAN
6 4 (14.29%) IPv4
6 4 (14.29%) IPv6
7 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (3.57%) DMZ
8 1 (3.57%) NX-OS
8 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.57%) VPN
8 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Support Technician
3 6 (21.43%) IT Support
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Consultant
5 4 (14.29%) ICT Support
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 4 (14.29%) IT Support Technician
5 4 (14.29%) IT Technician
6 3 (10.71%) ERP Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) ERP Support
7 2 (7.14%) IT Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) SQL Support Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 5 (17.86%) VMS
4 4 (14.29%) Linux
4 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.57%) Android
5 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL
3 5 (17.86%) Business Continuity
3 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) IT Audit
3 5 (17.86%) Software Delivery
4 4 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 4 (14.29%) CRM
4 4 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 4 (14.29%) Product Strategy
5 3 (10.71%) ERP
5 3 (10.71%) Presales
6 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.57%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (3.57%) Project Management
7 1 (3.57%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) Bash
5 3 (10.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.57%) CCNP
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (96.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco
4 4 (14.29%) Datto
4 4 (14.29%) HP
4 4 (14.29%) NETGEAR
4 4 (14.29%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (14.29%) Veeam
5 3 (10.71%) Epicor
6 1 (3.57%) Arista
6 1 (3.57%) Sun