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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 133 115
Rank change year-on-year +65 -18 -6
Permanent jobs citing WAN 284 126 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.36% 2.18% 2.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.18% 11.62% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 221 113 189
10th Percentile £24,696 £25,550 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,600 £33,500 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -19.05% +25.75%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £63,950 £75,200
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +5.26%

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 1,045 1,084 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.37% 18.74% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 777 510 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,688
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 £60,156
90th Percentile £68,300 £73,075 £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

WAN
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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the West Midlands

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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 9 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 +51 123 £42,000 -23.64% 16
Warwickshire +55 51 £40,313 -32.81% 7
Shropshire +4 27 £36,500 +40.38%
Staffordshire -28 25 £34,500 -6.12% 11
Worcestershire -17 20 £48,500 +6.57% 1
Solihull +12 17 £35,000 +14.75% 13
Coventry +24 9 £28,711 -28.22% 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £29,750 -
Wednesbury -6 1 - - 1
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 (9.15%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (7.39%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 34 (11.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.93%) Azure
2 59 (20.77%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (7.39%) AWS
4 18 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.23%) OneDrive
6 9 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.35%) GCP
10 1 (0.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (59.15%) LAN
2 98 (34.51%) SD-WAN
3 94 (33.10%) Firewall
4 70 (24.65%) MPLS
5 55 (19.37%) TCP/IP
6 47 (16.55%) VLAN
7 45 (15.85%) BGP
7 45 (15.85%) WLAN
8 44 (15.49%) Wireless
9 41 (14.44%) DNS
10 38 (13.38%) DHCP
11 33 (11.62%) OSPF
12 30 (10.56%) VPN
13 28 (9.86%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (9.51%) IPsec
15 25 (8.80%) VoIP
16 22 (7.75%) SAN
17 21 (7.39%) Network Security
18 13 (4.58%) Cisco Firepower
19 10 (3.52%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.51%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.76%) MySQL
4 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.70%) Power BI
4 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.76%) JIRA
2 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.15%) Retail
3 23 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.75%) Finance
5 12 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.17%) Law
7 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.76%) Automotive
10 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Police
11 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (24.65%) Senior
2 51 (17.96%) Network Engineer
3 45 (15.85%) Analyst
4 37 (13.03%) Architect
5 27 (9.51%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.15%) Network Analyst
7 24 (8.45%) Network Operations Analyst
7 24 (8.45%) Operations Analyst
8 23 (8.10%) WAN Engineer
9 21 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (7.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 20 (7.04%) Administrator
10 20 (7.04%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (6.34%) Senior Architect
12 16 (5.63%) Cisco Architect
12 16 (5.63%) Senior Cisco Architect
13 15 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (4.93%) Security Architect
14 14 (4.93%) Systems Administrator
15 12 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.58%) REST
1 13 (4.58%) WebRTC
2 5 (1.76%) HTML
3 2 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.15%) Clustering
3 17 (5.99%) Driving Licence
4 14 (4.93%) PKI
5 13 (4.58%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.17%) Wiki
8 8 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.46%) FMCG
10 6 (2.11%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.11%) IoT
11 5 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.06%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.70%) EPoS
14 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
15 1 (0.35%) Replication
15 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 71 (25.00%) Windows
2 44 (15.49%) Windows Server
3 19 (6.69%) Windows 10
4 16 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (3.87%) Linux
6 10 (3.52%) Windows 7
7 9 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.41%) CentOS
9 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.41%) VMS
9 4 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.70%) Android
11 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (15.14%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (10.56%) Load Balancing
4 29 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (9.86%) High Availability
6 27 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (9.15%) Time Management
8 23 (8.10%) Customer Service
8 23 (8.10%) Patch Management
8 23 (8.10%) Project Delivery
9 17 (5.99%) Presales
9 17 (5.99%) Roadmaps
10 16 (5.63%) Analytics
10 16 (5.63%) CRM
10 16 (5.63%) Customer Engagement
10 16 (5.63%) ITIL
10 16 (5.63%) Network Monitoring
10 16 (5.63%) Software Licensing
11 14 (4.93%) Asset Management
11 14 (4.93%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.44%) SQL
2 26 (9.15%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.17%) Perl
3 9 (3.17%) Python
4 8 (2.82%) Java
5 5 (1.76%) PHP
6 4 (1.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 77 (27.11%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (25.35%) Security Cleared
3 65 (22.89%) CCNP
4 59 (20.77%) SC Cleared
5 58 (20.42%) CCNA
6 47 (16.55%) Degree
7 34 (11.97%) CCIE
8 25 (8.80%) CCDP
9 15 (5.28%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (3.52%) DBS Check
12 7 (2.46%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 7 (2.46%) MCSE
12 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.76%) CISM
13 5 (1.76%) CISSP
14 4 (1.41%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.41%) JNCIA
15 3 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.52%) SLA
2 6 (2.11%) NIST
3 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 5 (1.76%) QA
4 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 69 (24.30%) Active Directory
2 45 (15.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (9.86%) Hyper-V
4 18 (6.34%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.46%) Firmware
5 7 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.11%) vSphere
7 5 (1.76%) NFS
7 5 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.41%) pfSense
8 4 (1.41%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.06%) Docker
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.87%) Stealthwatch
3 6 (2.11%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.76%) CASB
4 5 (1.76%) SCCM
4 5 (1.76%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.41%) Autotask
5 4 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (1.41%) Terraform
6 3 (1.06%) Ansible
6 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) SCOM
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 113 (39.79%) Microsoft
2 97 (34.15%) Cisco
3 72 (25.35%) VMware
4 57 (20.07%) Juniper
5 29 (10.21%) Meraki
6 22 (7.75%) Apple
7 21 (7.39%) CheckPoint
8 19 (6.69%) Fortinet
9 16 (5.63%) Adobe
10 14 (4.93%) Aruba
10 14 (4.93%) Veeam
11 13 (4.58%) Palo Alto
12 11 (3.87%) HP
12 11 (3.87%) SolarWinds
13 9 (3.17%) Avaya
13 9 (3.17%) Dell
13 9 (3.17%) F5
14 8 (2.82%) Ekahau
14 8 (2.82%) Sophos
14 8 (2.82%) Zscaler