WAN Jobs in Merseyside

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 39 54 81
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 -30
Permanent jobs citing WAN 58 49 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.94% 4.99% 2.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.74% 20.08% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 51 36 20
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,000 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £43,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -4.89% -8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £74,125
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 195 244 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.26% 24.87% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 135 64 115
10th Percentile £26,100 £29,650 £23,132
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +3.66% -4.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,600 £59,700 £70,000
North West median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.22% +2.11% +5.56%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

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

Salary histogram for WAN in Merseyside

WAN
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 12 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
Liverpool +9 45 £57,500 +8.49% 2
Birkenhead - 9 £24,000 -
Bootle - 4 - -
WAN
North West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (13.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (27.59%) Entra ID
3 13 (22.41%) Azure
4 10 (17.24%) IaaS
5 9 (15.52%) PaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (98.28%) LAN
2 19 (32.76%) SD-WAN
3 18 (31.03%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (29.31%) Firewall
5 15 (25.86%) Wireless
6 14 (24.14%) DHCP
6 14 (24.14%) DNS
7 11 (18.97%) TCP/IP
7 11 (18.97%) WLAN
8 9 (15.52%) VPN
9 5 (8.62%) Internet
9 5 (8.62%) SSL
10 2 (3.45%) VoIP
11 1 (1.72%) Network Security
11 1 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.72%) SNMP
11 1 (1.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.17%) French Language
2 3 (5.17%) Italian Language
2 3 (5.17%) Spanish Language
3 2 (3.45%) Back Office
4 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) 1st Line Support
1 9 (15.52%) Lead
2 8 (13.79%) Technical Design Authority
3 7 (12.07%) AS400 Support
3 7 (12.07%) Technical Support
4 6 (10.34%) Firewall Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) LAN Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Presales Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) WAN Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) WLAN Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Incident Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Network Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Network Services Manager
5 4 (6.90%) NOC Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Technical Design Leader
5 4 (6.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) AS400
1 7 (12.07%) iSeries
2 4 (6.90%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.45%) CCTV
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Windows
2 11 (18.97%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.45%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (15.52%) Agile
3 6 (10.34%) Business Development
3 6 (10.34%) Change Management
3 6 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (10.34%) Migration
3 6 (10.34%) Presales
4 5 (8.62%) Coaching
4 5 (8.62%) Cost Management
4 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (8.62%) ITIL
4 5 (8.62%) Line Management
4 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
4 5 (8.62%) Performance Management
4 5 (8.62%) Release Management
4 5 (8.62%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (8.62%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (8.62%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (6.90%) ITSM
5 4 (6.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) SQL
2 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) A+ Certification
1 4 (6.90%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) CCNA
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.72%) DFS Replication
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Ekahau
2 8 (13.79%) Ruckus Wireless
3 6 (10.34%) Veeam
4 4 (6.90%) Meraki
4 4 (6.90%) VMware
5 3 (5.17%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.72%) Aderant
7 1 (1.72%) Apple
7 1 (1.72%) Aruba
7 1 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) HP