WAN Jobs in the East Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 97 110
Rank change year-on-year -44 +13 -19
Permanent jobs citing WAN 52 79 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.05% 2.93% 2.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.95% 12.60% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 49 56 76
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,375
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,375 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,313 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £58,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,275 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% -7.45% +4.17%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 581 627 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.75% 23.24% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 469 205 336
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £61,125
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Derbyshire -8 25 £35,000 +14.75% 7
Nottinghamshire -31 13 £50,000 +0.76% 2
Lincolnshire -4 7 £50,000 +31.58% 2
Northamptonshire -22 4 £26,500 -24.29% 4
Leicestershire -30 2 £67,500 +28.57%
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Shopify
2 1 (1.92%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (71.15%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (67.31%) Azure
3 8 (15.38%) Mimecast
3 8 (15.38%) Nutanix
4 4 (7.69%) AWS
4 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) WhatsApp
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (76.92%) LAN
2 23 (44.23%) Firewall
3 22 (42.31%) DNS
4 20 (38.46%) DHCP
5 16 (30.77%) TCP/IP
6 12 (23.08%) SD-WAN
6 12 (23.08%) VPN
6 12 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (19.23%) VLAN
7 10 (19.23%) Wireless
8 7 (13.46%) SAN
8 7 (13.46%) WLAN
9 5 (9.62%) NAS
10 4 (7.69%) MPLS
11 3 (5.77%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (3.85%) Broadband
12 2 (3.85%) Internet
12 2 (3.85%) IP Telephony
12 2 (3.85%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (3.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) MySQL
2 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Law
2 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Retail
4 2 (3.85%) Legal
4 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Automotive
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Support Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) IT Support
5 6 (11.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Network Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 4 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Escalation Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) LDAP
1 2 (3.85%) SAML
1 2 (3.85%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.77%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (3.85%) IoT
3 2 (3.85%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) PropTech
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (61.54%) Windows
2 26 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (7.69%) VMS
5 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.85%) Android
6 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.31%) Project Management
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
5 7 (13.46%) ITIL
6 6 (11.54%) Customer Service
6 6 (11.54%) Preventative Maintenance
6 6 (11.54%) Service Management
7 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (7.69%) DevOps
8 4 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 4 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (7.69%) Server Management
8 4 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
8 4 (7.69%) Ticket Management
8 4 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
9 3 (5.77%) Contract Negotiation
9 3 (5.77%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.77%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) Bash
3 2 (3.85%) Bicep
3 2 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.69%) CCNA
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.85%) MCSA
5 2 (3.85%) MCSE
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CCIE
6 1 (1.92%) CCNP
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (67.31%) Active Directory
2 18 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (21.15%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (11.54%) SCCM
3 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.92%) Autotask
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (36.54%) VMware
3 12 (23.08%) Cisco
4 10 (19.23%) Meraki
5 7 (13.46%) Citrix
6 6 (11.54%) HP
6 6 (11.54%) Nasuni
6 6 (11.54%) Rapid7
6 6 (11.54%) Sophos
6 6 (11.54%) Veeam
7 4 (7.69%) Apple
8 2 (3.85%) Google
8 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.85%) SAP
8 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.92%) Aruba
9 1 (1.92%) Avaya
9 1 (1.92%) Juniper
9 1 (1.92%) Oracle
9 1 (1.92%) Sage