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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 134 98
Rank change year-on-year +49 -36 +19
Permanent jobs citing WAN 336 198 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.78% 2.18% 3.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.46% 11.63% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 279 156 303
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,125 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £37,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -15.26% +13.77%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,250 £64,000 £72,500
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
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 1,566 1,703 1,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.95% 18.78% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 724 1,087
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £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 £60,000 £58,750
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 20 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 20 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 +91 282 £42,000 -1.75% 42
East Midlands -45 48 £45,000 +20.00% 16
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 40 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 25 (7.44%) IIS
4 2 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 39 (11.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.60%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 116 (34.52%) Azure
2 94 (27.98%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (8.04%) AWS
4 22 (6.55%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (3.57%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (2.08%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.79%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.49%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.49%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.89%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.60%) SaaS
13 1 (0.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 212 (63.10%) LAN
2 116 (34.52%) Firewall
3 113 (33.63%) SD-WAN
4 77 (22.92%) MPLS
5 72 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 68 (20.24%) DNS
7 63 (18.75%) DHCP
8 59 (17.56%) WLAN
9 54 (16.07%) VLAN
10 53 (15.77%) BGP
11 51 (15.18%) Wireless
12 41 (12.20%) OSPF
13 36 (10.71%) VPN
13 36 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (8.33%) SAN
15 25 (7.44%) IPsec
16 24 (7.14%) VoIP
17 18 (5.36%) Network Security
18 13 (3.87%) Intrusion Detection
19 11 (3.27%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.49%) Power BI
4 4 (1.19%) MySQL
5 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 100 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 29 (8.63%) Retail
3 26 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.74%) Finance
4 16 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 13 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.27%) Law
7 8 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Police
11 3 (0.89%) Automotive
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Electronics
12 2 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (0.60%) Local Government
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (19.35%) Senior
2 53 (15.77%) Analyst
2 53 (15.77%) Network Engineer
3 40 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (11.01%) Architect
5 36 (10.71%) Support Engineer
6 32 (9.52%) Network Analyst
7 30 (8.93%) Network Operations Analyst
7 30 (8.93%) Operations Analyst
8 23 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (6.25%) Administrator
10 20 (5.95%) IT Engineer
11 19 (5.65%) WAN Engineer
12 17 (5.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 16 (4.76%) IT Support
13 16 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
14 15 (4.46%) Senior Architect
14 15 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (4.17%) IT Technician
16 13 (3.87%) Cisco Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.46%) REST
1 15 (4.46%) WebRTC
2 2 (0.60%) HTML
2 2 (0.60%) LDAP
2 2 (0.60%) SAML
2 2 (0.60%) ServiceStack
2 2 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.63%) Clustering
3 23 (6.85%) Driving Licence
4 16 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.57%) PKI
6 11 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.98%) Wiki
8 8 (2.38%) IoT
9 7 (2.08%) FMCG
10 6 (1.79%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.49%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.60%) PropTech
13 2 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 99 (29.46%) Windows
2 64 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (2.98%) Windows 7
7 9 (2.68%) Linux
8 8 (2.38%) VMS
8 8 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.19%) Android
9 4 (1.19%) CentOS
9 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.60%) Unix
12 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (13.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (10.71%) Load Balancing
5 34 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (9.52%) High Availability
7 27 (8.04%) Customer Service
8 24 (7.14%) ITIL
9 23 (6.85%) Time Management
10 22 (6.55%) Patch Management
11 21 (6.25%) Project Delivery
12 18 (5.36%) Change Management
12 18 (5.36%) Network Monitoring
12 18 (5.36%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.06%) Capacity Planning
13 17 (5.06%) Project Management
14 16 (4.76%) Asset Management
14 16 (4.76%) Computer Science
14 16 (4.76%) CRM
15 15 (4.46%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.69%) SQL
2 32 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.57%) Python
4 10 (2.98%) Java
4 10 (2.98%) Perl
5 6 (1.79%) Bash
6 2 (0.60%) Bicep
6 2 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (25.30%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (21.13%) Security Cleared
3 69 (20.54%) CCNP
4 67 (19.94%) CCNA
5 56 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 53 (15.77%) Degree
7 40 (11.90%) CCIE
8 31 (9.23%) CCDP
9 15 (4.46%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.68%) DBS Check
12 8 (2.38%) MCSE
12 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.08%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 5 (1.49%) CISM
14 5 (1.49%) CISSP
14 5 (1.49%) JNCIA
15 4 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.89%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.98%) NIST
2 7 (2.08%) QA
3 6 (1.79%) SLA
4 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.19%) GDPR
5 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 101 (30.06%) Active Directory
2 58 (17.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.65%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.08%) Firmware
6 6 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.79%) vSphere
7 5 (1.49%) NFS
8 4 (1.19%) pfSense
8 4 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.19%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.89%) Docker
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.68%) SCCM
3 8 (2.38%) Stealthwatch
4 6 (1.79%) Terraform
5 5 (1.49%) Autotask
5 5 (1.49%) CASB
5 5 (1.49%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.19%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.89%) Ansible
7 3 (0.89%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 137 (40.77%) Microsoft
2 104 (30.95%) Cisco
3 86 (25.60%) VMware
4 56 (16.67%) Juniper
5 31 (9.23%) Meraki
6 23 (6.85%) Apple
7 20 (5.95%) CheckPoint
8 17 (5.06%) Fortinet
8 17 (5.06%) Veeam
9 15 (4.46%) HP
10 14 (4.17%) Citrix
10 14 (4.17%) Sophos
11 13 (3.87%) Adobe
11 13 (3.87%) Aruba
11 13 (3.87%) Palo Alto
11 13 (3.87%) SolarWinds
12 10 (2.98%) Avaya
13 9 (2.68%) F5
14 8 (2.38%) Dell
14 8 (2.38%) Zscaler