WAN Jobs in the North East

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 74 57 57
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +10
Permanent jobs citing WAN 42 55 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.17% 4.35% 4.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 18.64% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35 45 61
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,500 -
25th Percentile £30,625 £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +6.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £43,250
90th Percentile £84,919 £49,050 £46,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 295 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.04% 23.36% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 229 110 149
10th Percentile £25,400 £30,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,683 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +4.21% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £54,150
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the North East

WAN
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for WAN in the North East

WAN
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for WAN in the North East

WAN
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the North East 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
Durham +9 21 £35,000 -6.67% 1
Tyne and Wear -27 21 £40,000 -5.88% 3
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (26.19%) AWS
4 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.90%) IaaS
5 5 (11.90%) PaaS
5 5 (11.90%) SaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.76%) Cloudflare
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
6 2 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.38%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (80.95%) LAN
2 21 (50.00%) Firewall
3 14 (33.33%) VPN
4 12 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (26.19%) VoIP
6 8 (19.05%) VLAN
7 6 (14.29%) DNS
8 5 (11.90%) DHCP
8 5 (11.90%) Wireless
8 5 (11.90%) WLAN
9 4 (9.52%) Network Security
9 4 (9.52%) SD-WAN
10 3 (7.14%) NAS
10 3 (7.14%) SAN
11 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
12 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.90%) Retail
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Lead Architect
5 4 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead Security Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) IT Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) IT Support
6 3 (7.14%) Network Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 7 (16.67%) Clustering
2 7 (16.67%) IoT
3 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (9.52%) Driving Licence
4 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.14%) Replication
5 2 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Life Science
5 2 (4.76%) PKI
5 2 (4.76%) Tandem
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Windows
2 14 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (19.05%) Windows 10
4 7 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (21.43%) Information Security
3 8 (19.05%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (16.67%) SIEM
4 7 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
6 5 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (11.90%) Service Management
7 4 (9.52%) Application Security
7 4 (9.52%) Cloud Security
7 4 (9.52%) Data Protection
7 4 (9.52%) Identity Management
7 4 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (9.52%) Risk Management
7 4 (9.52%) Secure Coding
7 4 (9.52%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.43%) Bash
3 7 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) CISSP
2 6 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 6 (14.29%) CISA
2 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (14.29%) CISMP
2 6 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (14.29%) GIAC
2 6 (14.29%) SANS
3 4 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) CCSK
3 4 (9.52%) CCSP
3 4 (9.52%) CISM
4 2 (4.76%) CCNA
4 2 (4.76%) CCNP
5 1 (2.38%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) NIST
2 4 (9.52%) SLA
3 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (26.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (9.52%) Docker
5 3 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (16.67%) Autotask
2 7 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (16.67%) SCCM
3 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (42.86%) VMware
3 6 (14.29%) Datto
4 4 (9.52%) Apple
5 2 (4.76%) Aruba
5 2 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco
5 2 (4.76%) Sophos
5 2 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix
6 1 (2.38%) Draytek
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow