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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 148 107
Rank change year-on-year +91 -41 -1
Permanent jobs citing WAN 282 125 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.77% 2.00% 2.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.69% 11.38% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 227 106 189
10th Percentile £24,696 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,375 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -18.57% +23.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £59,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +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 983 1,098 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.13% 17.60% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 802 514 709
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,913 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £59,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +57 116 £42,000 -23.64% 13
Warwickshire +74 51 £40,313 -32.81% 5
Shropshire +2 27 £36,500 +40.38% 1
Staffordshire -14 27 £39,750 +8.16% 6
Worcestershire -2 23 £48,500 +6.57% 1
Solihull +15 17 £35,000 +14.75% 12
Coventry +27 10 £41,500 +9.21% 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £29,750 -
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 (9.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (9.22%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.87%) IIS
3 2 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 34 (12.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 85 (30.14%) Azure
2 56 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (8.16%) AWS
4 18 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.61%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (4.26%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 170 (60.28%) LAN
2 103 (36.52%) SD-WAN
3 95 (33.69%) Firewall
4 73 (25.89%) MPLS
5 57 (20.21%) TCP/IP
6 52 (18.44%) BGP
6 52 (18.44%) WLAN
7 45 (15.96%) VLAN
8 44 (15.60%) Wireless
9 43 (15.25%) DNS
10 40 (14.18%) DHCP
10 40 (14.18%) OSPF
11 27 (9.57%) VPN
12 25 (8.87%) IPsec
12 25 (8.87%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (8.51%) VoIP
14 21 (7.45%) SAN
15 17 (6.03%) Network Security
16 11 (3.90%) Ethernet
17 10 (3.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) MySQL
3 2 (0.71%) Power BI
3 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.77%) JIRA
2 4 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.22%) Retail
3 23 (8.16%) Finance
4 21 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.48%) Law
8 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.42%) Police
10 2 (0.71%) Automotive
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (21.99%) Senior
2 50 (17.73%) Analyst
3 48 (17.02%) Network Engineer
4 34 (12.06%) Architect
5 32 (11.35%) Network Analyst
6 30 (10.64%) Network Operations Analyst
6 30 (10.64%) Operations Analyst
7 27 (9.57%) Support Engineer
8 23 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
9 20 (7.09%) Administrator
9 20 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (6.74%) WAN Engineer
11 17 (6.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 15 (5.32%) Senior Architect
12 15 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (5.32%) Systems Administrator
13 13 (4.61%) Cisco Architect
13 13 (4.61%) Senior Cisco Architect
14 11 (3.90%) Security Architect
15 10 (3.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.32%) REST
1 15 (5.32%) WebRTC
2 2 (0.71%) HTML
2 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.28%) Clustering
2 28 (9.93%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.67%) Driving Licence
4 15 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.26%) PKI
6 11 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.55%) Wiki
8 9 (3.19%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.48%) FMCG
10 6 (2.13%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.13%) IoT
11 4 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.06%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.71%) EPoS
13 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.35%) Replication
14 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.40%) Windows
2 37 (13.12%) Windows Server
3 18 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.55%) Windows 7
4 10 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (2.84%) Linux
5 8 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.42%) CentOS
7 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.42%) VMS
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.71%) Android
9 2 (0.71%) Unix
10 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.72%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (11.70%) Load Balancing
4 32 (11.35%) High Availability
5 29 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (8.16%) Customer Service
8 22 (7.80%) Time Management
9 21 (7.45%) Patch Management
10 20 (7.09%) Project Delivery
11 17 (6.03%) ITIL
11 17 (6.03%) Network Monitoring
11 17 (6.03%) Roadmaps
12 16 (5.67%) Capacity Planning
12 16 (5.67%) CRM
13 14 (4.96%) Change Management
13 14 (4.96%) CI/CD
13 14 (4.96%) Presales
14 13 (4.61%) Customer Engagement
14 13 (4.61%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.25%) SQL
2 26 (9.22%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.55%) Java
3 10 (3.55%) Perl
3 10 (3.55%) Python
4 4 (1.42%) Bash
5 2 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (28.37%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (25.18%) Security Cleared
3 68 (24.11%) CCNP
4 63 (22.34%) CCNA
5 56 (19.86%) SC Cleared
6 44 (15.60%) Degree
7 39 (13.83%) CCIE
8 31 (10.99%) CCDP
9 15 (5.32%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.19%) DBS Check
12 7 (2.48%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 6 (2.13%) MCSE
13 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.77%) CISM
14 5 (1.77%) CISSP
15 4 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (1.42%) JNCIA
16 3 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.84%) NIST
2 6 (2.13%) SLA
3 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 5 (1.77%) QA
4 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 66 (23.40%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (9.22%) Hyper-V
4 19 (6.74%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.48%) Firmware
6 6 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.13%) vSphere
7 5 (1.77%) NFS
8 4 (1.42%) pfSense
8 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.42%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.84%) Stealthwatch
3 5 (1.77%) CASB
3 5 (1.77%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.42%) Autotask
4 4 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.42%) SCCM
4 4 (1.42%) Terraform
4 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.06%) Ansible
5 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.71%) Nagios
Vendors
1 113 (40.07%) Microsoft
2 93 (32.98%) Cisco
3 70 (24.82%) VMware
4 55 (19.50%) Juniper
5 22 (7.80%) Meraki
6 20 (7.09%) CheckPoint
7 19 (6.74%) Apple
8 17 (6.03%) Fortinet
9 13 (4.61%) Adobe
10 12 (4.26%) Aruba
10 12 (4.26%) Veeam
11 11 (3.90%) Palo Alto
11 11 (3.90%) SolarWinds
12 10 (3.55%) HP
13 9 (3.19%) Avaya
13 9 (3.19%) F5
14 8 (2.84%) Dell
14 8 (2.84%) Ekahau
14 8 (2.84%) Sophos
14 8 (2.84%) Zscaler