WAN Jobs in the Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 138 101
Rank change year-on-year +53 -37 +18
Permanent jobs citing WAN 338 200 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.85% 2.18% 3.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.56% 11.69% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 282 157 303
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,150 £28,550
25th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £37,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.58% +13.77%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,637 £49,750
% change year-on-year +4.08% -8.27% +4.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,568 1,711 1,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.20% 18.61% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 727 1,092
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -3.89% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Midlands

WAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN in the Midlands

WAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the Midlands

WAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands +83 285 £42,000 -1.75% 40
East Midlands -44 47 £45,000 +20.00% 15
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 41 (12.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 27 (7.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 40 (11.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.59%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 117 (34.62%) Azure
2 92 (27.22%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (8.28%) AWS
4 22 (6.51%) Entra ID
5 15 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (3.55%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (2.07%) Mimecast
9 5 (1.48%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.48%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.48%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.89%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.59%) SaaS
12 1 (0.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 215 (63.61%) LAN
2 116 (34.32%) Firewall
3 112 (33.14%) SD-WAN
4 79 (23.37%) MPLS
5 74 (21.89%) TCP/IP
6 69 (20.41%) DNS
7 64 (18.93%) DHCP
8 62 (18.34%) WLAN
9 55 (16.27%) BGP
10 54 (15.98%) VLAN
11 49 (14.50%) Wireless
12 43 (12.72%) OSPF
13 35 (10.36%) VPN
13 35 (10.36%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (8.28%) SAN
15 25 (7.40%) IPsec
15 25 (7.40%) VoIP
16 17 (5.03%) Network Security
17 14 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
18 11 (3.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.25%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.48%) Power BI
4 3 (0.89%) MySQL
5 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.48%) JIRA
2 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (8.58%) Retail
3 26 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.69%) Finance
4 16 (4.73%) Telecoms
5 13 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.25%) Law
7 8 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.18%) Police
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.59%) Automotive
12 2 (0.59%) Electronics
12 2 (0.59%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (0.59%) Local Government
12 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 64 (18.93%) Senior
2 54 (15.98%) Analyst
3 52 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 39 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (10.65%) Support Engineer
6 35 (10.36%) Architect
7 34 (10.06%) Network Analyst
8 32 (9.47%) Network Operations Analyst
8 32 (9.47%) Operations Analyst
9 25 (7.40%) Systems Engineer
10 22 (6.51%) Administrator
11 20 (5.92%) IT Engineer
12 18 (5.33%) WAN Engineer
13 17 (5.03%) Systems Administrator
14 16 (4.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 15 (4.44%) IT Support
16 14 (4.14%) IT Technician
16 14 (4.14%) Senior Architect
16 14 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (3.55%) Help Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.73%) REST
1 16 (4.73%) WebRTC
2 2 (0.59%) LDAP
2 2 (0.59%) SAML
2 2 (0.59%) ServiceStack
2 2 (0.59%) Web Services
3 1 (0.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.17%) Clustering
1 31 (9.17%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.10%) Driving Licence
3 17 (5.03%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.25%) PKI
5 11 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.25%) Wiki
6 8 (2.37%) IoT
7 7 (2.07%) FMCG
8 6 (1.78%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.59%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.59%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.59%) PropTech
11 2 (0.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 99 (29.29%) Windows
2 63 (18.64%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.51%) Windows 10
4 16 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (3.25%) Windows 7
7 8 (2.37%) Linux
7 8 (2.37%) VMS
7 8 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.18%) Android
8 4 (1.18%) CentOS
8 4 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.59%) Unix
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (13.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (10.95%) Load Balancing
4 34 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (10.06%) High Availability
5 27 (7.99%) Customer Service
6 24 (7.10%) ITIL
7 22 (6.51%) Patch Management
7 22 (6.51%) Time Management
8 21 (6.21%) Project Delivery
9 19 (5.62%) Network Monitoring
10 18 (5.33%) Capacity Planning
10 18 (5.33%) Change Management
10 18 (5.33%) Project Management
10 18 (5.33%) Roadmaps
11 17 (5.03%) CRM
12 16 (4.73%) Asset Management
12 16 (4.73%) Computer Science
13 15 (4.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (14.50%) SQL
2 33 (9.76%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.85%) Python
4 11 (3.25%) Java
4 11 (3.25%) Perl
5 6 (1.78%) Bash
6 2 (0.59%) Bicep
7 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (25.74%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (21.30%) Security Cleared
3 70 (20.71%) CCNP
4 69 (20.41%) CCNA
5 56 (16.57%) SC Cleared
6 53 (15.68%) Degree
7 42 (12.43%) CCIE
8 33 (9.76%) CCDP
9 15 (4.44%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.66%) DBS Check
12 8 (2.37%) MCSE
12 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.07%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 5 (1.48%) CISM
14 5 (1.48%) CISSP
14 5 (1.48%) JNCIA
15 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.89%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.96%) NIST
2 7 (2.07%) QA
3 5 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 5 (1.48%) SLA
4 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
4 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 100 (29.59%) Active Directory
2 58 (17.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (10.36%) Hyper-V
4 20 (5.92%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.07%) Firmware
6 6 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.78%) vSphere
7 5 (1.48%) NFS
8 4 (1.18%) pfSense
8 4 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.18%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.89%) Docker
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.66%) SCCM
3 7 (2.07%) Stealthwatch
4 6 (1.78%) Terraform
5 5 (1.48%) Autotask
5 5 (1.48%) CASB
5 5 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.89%) Ansible
7 3 (0.89%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 139 (41.12%) Microsoft
2 102 (30.18%) Cisco
3 87 (25.74%) VMware
4 55 (16.27%) Juniper
5 30 (8.88%) Meraki
6 22 (6.51%) Apple
7 20 (5.92%) CheckPoint
8 16 (4.73%) Fortinet
8 16 (4.73%) Veeam
9 14 (4.14%) Citrix
9 14 (4.14%) HP
9 14 (4.14%) Sophos
10 13 (3.85%) Aruba
10 13 (3.85%) Palo Alto
10 13 (3.85%) SolarWinds
11 12 (3.55%) Adobe
12 10 (2.96%) Avaya
13 9 (2.66%) F5
14 8 (2.37%) Dell
14 8 (2.37%) Zscaler