WAN Jobs in West Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 59 131 123
Rank change year-on-year +72 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing WAN 112 102 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.65% 2.09% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.45% 17.44% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 93 64 98
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,003 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,313 £54,813
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,715 £62,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 458 585 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.93% 11.97% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 320 280 567
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £32,780 £36,654
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £46,875 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -5.30% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,070 £60,082
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,715 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +11.11%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +65 82 £59,500 +32.22% 11
Bradford +36 16 £28,000 -
Wakefield +13 5 £28,000 -61.38% 1
Brighouse - 3 £30,000 -
Huddersfield +24 1 £60,000 +126.42% 1
Batley - 1 £37,500 -
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 11 (9.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.79%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.54%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (41.96%) Azure
3 22 (19.64%) Entra ID
4 20 (17.86%) OneDrive
5 8 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.57%) IaaS
8 3 (2.68%) PaaS
8 3 (2.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.89%) AWS
9 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 95 (84.82%) LAN
2 54 (48.21%) Firewall
3 35 (31.25%) VPN
4 32 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
5 31 (27.68%) SD-WAN
6 24 (21.43%) Wireless
7 21 (18.75%) Network Security
8 15 (13.39%) DHCP
8 15 (13.39%) DNS
9 12 (10.71%) VLAN
10 10 (8.93%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (8.93%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (8.93%) TCP/IP
10 10 (8.93%) VoIP
11 9 (8.04%) SAN
12 8 (7.14%) WLAN
13 6 (5.36%) Wireshark
14 5 (4.46%) Internet
15 4 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
16 3 (2.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
General
1 19 (16.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.29%) Law
3 10 (8.93%) Finance
4 6 (5.36%) French Language
4 6 (5.36%) German Language
4 6 (5.36%) Italian Language
4 6 (5.36%) Portuguese Language
4 6 (5.36%) Spanish Language
4 6 (5.36%) Swedish Language
4 6 (5.36%) Turkish Language
5 4 (3.57%) Retail
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (13.39%) Architect
1 15 (13.39%) Lead
1 15 (13.39%) Network Engineer
2 12 (10.71%) Analyst
2 12 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (9.82%) IT Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) IP Architect
4 10 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 9 (8.04%) IT Manager
6 8 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
7 7 (6.25%) Service Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Administrator
8 6 (5.36%) Azure Specialist
8 6 (5.36%) Information Security Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Senior
8 6 (5.36%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (5.36%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.79%) .NET
1 2 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.36%) Cyberattack
3 6 (5.36%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) PropTech
4 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 61 (54.46%) Windows
2 28 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.82%) Windows 10
4 8 (7.14%) Android
4 8 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 8 (7.14%) Linux
5 6 (5.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (13.39%) Patch Management
3 15 (13.39%) Roadmaps
4 14 (12.50%) Business Development
5 11 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (9.82%) Migration
5 11 (9.82%) People Management
6 10 (8.93%) Network Design
7 9 (8.04%) DevOps
7 9 (8.04%) ERP
7 9 (8.04%) ITIL
8 8 (7.14%) High Availability
8 8 (7.14%) Project Management
8 8 (7.14%) Service Delivery
9 7 (6.25%) Agile
9 7 (6.25%) Cloud Security
9 7 (6.25%) Information Security
9 7 (6.25%) SIEM
9 7 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.71%) SQL
2 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.04%) Python
4 2 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.89%) C#
5 1 (0.89%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 29 (25.89%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (17.86%) CISSP
3 18 (16.07%) CCNP
4 16 (14.29%) CCIE
5 10 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (6.25%) CCSP
7 6 (5.36%) CCNA
7 6 (5.36%) CEH
7 6 (5.36%) SANS
7 6 (5.36%) SSCP
8 4 (3.57%) Degree
9 3 (2.68%) CCDP
9 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.89%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.89%) CISM
11 1 (0.89%) MCSA
11 1 (0.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) NIST
2 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.36%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 45 (40.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.71%) Hyper-V
3 10 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.89%) Docker
6 1 (0.89%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.36%) Nmap
3 2 (1.79%) Backup Exec
3 2 (1.79%) SCCM
3 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.79%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.79%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.89%) Ansible
4 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (29.46%) Cisco
3 19 (16.96%) Meraki
4 15 (13.39%) VMware
5 12 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 11 (9.82%) Fortinet
7 10 (8.93%) Juniper
8 9 (8.04%) Veeam
9 8 (7.14%) Epicor
10 6 (5.36%) Qualys
10 6 (5.36%) Rapid7
10 6 (5.36%) Splunk
10 6 (5.36%) Thycotic
11 5 (4.46%) Ekahau
11 5 (4.46%) Ruckus Wireless
12 3 (2.68%) Aruba
12 3 (2.68%) Dell
13 2 (1.79%) NetApp
13 2 (1.79%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.79%) Veritas