WAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 136 108
Rank change year-on-year +77 -28 0
Permanent jobs citing WAN 289 120 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.60% 2.06% 2.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.10% 11.11% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 229 107 189
10th Percentile £24,696 £25,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £29,600 £32,750 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -19.05% +23.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £75,200
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -7.90% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 993 1,080 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.36% 18.53% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 795 504 698
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,125 £32,000 £34,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,469
90th Percentile £67,800 £73,751 £75,000
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Birmingham +50 123 £42,000 -23.64% 12
Warwickshire +59 51 £40,313 -32.81% 6
Staffordshire -12 28 £37,250 +1.36% 8
Shropshire +3 27 £36,500 +40.38%
Worcestershire -9 21 £48,500 +6.57% 1
Solihull +8 17 £35,000 +14.75% 8
Coventry +26 10 £41,500 +6.41%
Brierley Hill - 2 £29,750 -
Walsall - 1 - -
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 26 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (9.00%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.96%) IIS
3 2 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 34 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 86 (29.76%) Azure
2 60 (20.76%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (7.61%) AWS
4 18 (6.23%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.15%) OneDrive
6 11 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.04%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.69%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.35%) GCP
10 1 (0.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 172 (59.52%) LAN
2 103 (35.64%) SD-WAN
3 98 (33.91%) Firewall
4 70 (24.22%) MPLS
5 58 (20.07%) TCP/IP
6 48 (16.61%) BGP
6 48 (16.61%) WLAN
7 46 (15.92%) VLAN
7 46 (15.92%) Wireless
8 43 (14.88%) DNS
9 40 (13.84%) DHCP
10 36 (12.46%) OSPF
11 29 (10.03%) VPN
12 27 (9.34%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (9.00%) IPsec
14 24 (8.30%) VoIP
15 21 (7.27%) SAN
16 19 (6.57%) Network Security
17 13 (4.50%) Cisco Firepower
18 11 (3.81%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.34%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.38%) MySQL
4 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.69%) Power BI
4 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.73%) JIRA
2 4 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.00%) Retail
3 23 (7.96%) Finance
4 22 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.15%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.77%) Law
7 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.38%) Automotive
8 4 (1.38%) Police
9 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (23.18%) Senior
2 52 (17.99%) Network Engineer
3 48 (16.61%) Analyst
4 37 (12.80%) Architect
5 28 (9.69%) Network Analyst
6 27 (9.34%) Support Engineer
7 26 (9.00%) Network Operations Analyst
7 26 (9.00%) Operations Analyst
8 22 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) WAN Engineer
9 20 (6.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 20 (6.92%) Administrator
10 17 (5.88%) Senior Architect
11 16 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (5.19%) Cisco Architect
12 15 (5.19%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 15 (5.19%) Systems Administrator
13 13 (4.50%) Security Architect
14 10 (3.46%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.84%) REST
1 14 (4.84%) WebRTC
2 4 (1.38%) HTML
3 2 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.73%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.34%) Clustering
3 16 (5.54%) Driving Licence
4 14 (4.84%) PKI
4 14 (4.84%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.46%) Wiki
7 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.42%) FMCG
9 6 (2.08%) Cyberattack
9 6 (2.08%) IoT
10 5 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.69%) EPoS
13 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.35%) Replication
14 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 70 (24.22%) Windows
2 42 (14.53%) Windows Server
3 18 (6.23%) Windows 10
4 14 (4.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (3.46%) Linux
5 10 (3.46%) Windows 7
6 8 (2.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.38%) CentOS
8 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.38%) VMS
9 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.69%) Android
11 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (11.07%) Load Balancing
4 30 (10.38%) High Availability
5 29 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (8.30%) Time Management
8 23 (7.96%) Customer Service
9 22 (7.61%) Patch Management
9 22 (7.61%) Project Delivery
10 17 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
10 17 (5.88%) Roadmaps
11 16 (5.54%) CRM
11 16 (5.54%) ITIL
11 16 (5.54%) Presales
12 15 (5.19%) Analytics
12 15 (5.19%) Capacity Planning
12 15 (5.19%) Customer Engagement
12 15 (5.19%) Software Licensing
13 13 (4.50%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.19%) SQL
2 27 (9.34%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.46%) Perl
3 10 (3.46%) Python
4 9 (3.11%) Java
5 4 (1.38%) Bash
5 4 (1.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (27.68%) Cisco Certification
2 73 (25.26%) Security Cleared
3 67 (23.18%) CCNP
4 62 (21.45%) CCNA
5 59 (20.42%) SC Cleared
6 46 (15.92%) Degree
7 36 (12.46%) CCIE
8 27 (9.34%) CCDP
9 15 (5.19%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.11%) DBS Check
12 7 (2.42%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 7 (2.42%) MCSE
12 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.73%) CISM
13 5 (1.73%) CISSP
14 4 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.38%) JNCIA
15 3 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.42%) NIST
1 7 (2.42%) SLA
2 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (1.73%) QA
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 44 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (9.69%) Hyper-V
4 18 (6.23%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.42%) Firmware
6 6 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.08%) vSphere
7 5 (1.73%) NFS
8 4 (1.38%) pfSense
8 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.38%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.46%) Stealthwatch
3 6 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.73%) CASB
5 4 (1.38%) Autotask
5 4 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.38%) SCCM
5 4 (1.38%) Terraform
5 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.04%) Ansible
6 3 (1.04%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 113 (39.10%) Microsoft
2 99 (34.26%) Cisco
3 73 (25.26%) VMware
4 59 (20.42%) Juniper
5 26 (9.00%) Meraki
6 21 (7.27%) Apple
7 20 (6.92%) CheckPoint
8 19 (6.57%) Fortinet
9 15 (5.19%) Adobe
10 13 (4.50%) Aruba
11 12 (4.15%) Palo Alto
11 12 (4.15%) Veeam
12 11 (3.81%) HP
12 11 (3.81%) SolarWinds
13 10 (3.46%) F5
14 9 (3.11%) Avaya
15 8 (2.77%) Dell
15 8 (2.77%) Ruckus Wireless
15 8 (2.77%) Sophos
15 8 (2.77%) Zscaler