WAN Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 76 53
Rank change year-on-year +31 -23 +17
Permanent jobs citing WAN 6 23 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.43% 1.75% 4.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.70% 13.07% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 33
10th Percentile £29,049 £30,875 £31,550
25th Percentile £31,599 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,599 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £37,813 £60,605 £48,750
90th Percentile £43,500 £84,919 -
North East median annual salary £34,000 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -8.24% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 69 176 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 16.39% 13.36% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 52 166 94
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £30,633
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% +0.59%
75th Percentile £61,250 £54,688 £48,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £72,125
North East median annual salary £25,087 £42,500 £40,865
% change year-on-year -40.97% +4.00% +2.16%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Tyne and Wear

WAN
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for WAN in Tyne and Wear

WAN
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Tyne and Wear

WAN
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 April 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +27 3 £33,198 -21.89% 3
Sunderland +22 2 £31,000 - 1
WAN
North East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) FTP
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) EDMS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Housing Association
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Progress 4GL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Capita
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Progress
1 2 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) VMware