WAN Jobs in Birmingham

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 97 87
Rank change year-on-year +52 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing WAN 125 33 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.98% 1.84% 3.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.89% 12.27% 25.57%
Number of salaries quoted 93 29 104
10th Percentile £26,700 £33,500 £38,063
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,050 £42,158
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £71,188
90th Percentile £78,750 - £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £41,000 £42,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.09% -18.57% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 392 269 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.49% 14.97% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 298 193 336
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,550 £30,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,238 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,375 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,125 £77,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Birmingham

WAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for WAN in Birmingham

WAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Birmingham

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (9.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.80%) Azure
2 20 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.40%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.80%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 56 (44.80%) LAN
2 55 (44.00%) SD-WAN
3 52 (41.60%) Firewall
4 26 (20.80%) MPLS
5 20 (16.00%) TCP/IP
6 19 (15.20%) Wireless
7 18 (14.40%) Network Security
8 15 (12.00%) DNS
8 15 (12.00%) VLAN
9 14 (11.20%) DHCP
9 14 (11.20%) IPsec
9 14 (11.20%) WLAN
10 13 (10.40%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (8.00%) VPN
12 9 (7.20%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (7.20%) SAN
13 8 (6.40%) iSCSI
13 8 (6.40%) VoIP
14 7 (5.60%) BGP
14 7 (5.60%) OSPF
General
1 38 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.80%) Law
5 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Retail
7 2 (1.60%) Finance
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Senior
2 33 (26.40%) Network Engineer
3 30 (24.00%) Architect
4 19 (15.20%) WAN Engineer
5 18 (14.40%) Senior Architect
6 16 (12.80%) Cisco Architect
6 16 (12.80%) Senior Cisco Architect
7 15 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (11.20%) Security Architect
9 13 (10.40%) Support Engineer
10 12 (9.60%) Senior Network Engineer
11 11 (8.80%) Cisco Security Architect
11 11 (8.80%) Senior Security Architect
12 9 (7.20%) Administrator
12 9 (7.20%) IP Architect
12 9 (7.20%) Systems Administrator
13 8 (6.40%) IT Administrator
13 8 (6.40%) IT Systems Administrator
13 8 (6.40%) Network Manager
13 8 (6.40%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.20%) Wiki
3 7 (5.60%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.80%) PKI
5 5 (4.00%) IoT
6 4 (3.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.80%) PropTech
7 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.80%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Windows 10
2 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.20%) VMS
3 4 (3.20%) Windows 7
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (19.20%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (16.00%) Time Management
4 17 (13.60%) Presales
5 16 (12.80%) Customer Engagement
5 16 (12.80%) Software Licensing
6 14 (11.20%) Patch Management
7 12 (9.60%) Analytics
7 12 (9.60%) Project Delivery
8 10 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (7.20%) Business Development
9 9 (7.20%) Computer Science
9 9 (7.20%) Decision-Making
9 9 (7.20%) Network Management
10 8 (6.40%) ITIL
11 7 (5.60%) Information Security
11 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (4.80%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.20%) Perl
1 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
1 9 (7.20%) Python
2 8 (6.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (26.40%) Cisco Certification
1 33 (26.40%) SC Cleared
1 33 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.20%) CCNP
2 29 (23.20%) Degree
3 23 (18.40%) CCNA
4 11 (8.80%) Azure Certification
5 9 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.20%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.20%) JNCIA
7 3 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.40%) CCIE
7 3 (2.40%) CCSK
7 3 (2.40%) CCSP
7 3 (2.40%) CISM
7 3 (2.40%) CISSP
8 2 (1.60%) CCDA
9 1 (0.80%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) SLA
2 3 (2.40%) NIST
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (13.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.20%) NFS
4 4 (3.20%) pfSense
5 3 (2.40%) Docker
6 2 (1.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (8.80%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (4.00%) CASB
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (54.40%) Cisco
2 44 (35.20%) Juniper
3 43 (34.40%) Microsoft
4 26 (20.80%) Meraki
5 18 (14.40%) VMware
6 17 (13.60%) Fortinet
7 16 (12.80%) Adobe
7 16 (12.80%) Apple
8 14 (11.20%) Aruba
9 10 (8.00%) CheckPoint
10 9 (7.20%) Veeam
11 7 (5.60%) Nokia
12 6 (4.80%) Ericsson
12 6 (4.80%) Palo Alto
13 5 (4.00%) Citrix
13 5 (4.00%) HP
13 5 (4.00%) Sophos
14 4 (3.20%) Brocade
14 4 (3.20%) Dell
14 4 (3.20%) QNAP