WAN Jobs in Suffolk

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Suffolk

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing WAN 18 11 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 3.45% 4.26% 2.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.52% 20.00% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 8
10th Percentile £28,650 - £34,400
25th Percentile £41,250 - £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £25,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -45.95% +19.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £26,875 £59,813
90th Percentile - £28,750 £66,750
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 116 55 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 22.22% 21.32% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 74 23 35
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £25,640
25th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -16.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £63,125 £78,750 £63,375
90th Percentile £76,750 £93,000 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Suffolk

WAN
Salary Trend in Suffolk

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

Salary trend for WAN in Suffolk

WAN
Salary Histogram in Suffolk

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Suffolk over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Suffolk

WAN
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 23 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
Ipswich +6 14 £70,000 +180.00%
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) LAN
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
3 8 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (44.44%) Wireless
4 7 (38.89%) SD-WAN
4 7 (38.89%) WLAN
5 4 (22.22%) BGP
5 4 (22.22%) DHCP
5 4 (22.22%) DNS
6 2 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Design Authority
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) LAN Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) LAN/WAN Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Presales Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) WAN Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) WLAN Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Head of Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Head of Service Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) 1st Line Technical Support
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Design Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Fat Client
1 4 (22.22%) Thin Client
2 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Business Development
1 4 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
1 4 (22.22%) Presales
1 4 (22.22%) Service Design
1 4 (22.22%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (16.67%) Coaching
2 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (5.56%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Ekahau
2 5 (27.78%) Ruckus Wireless
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Citrix
3 4 (22.22%) Meraki
3 4 (22.22%) NetApp
3 4 (22.22%) VMware