WAN Jobs in Oxfordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 93 93
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 -19
Permanent jobs citing WAN 33 30 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.96% 1.90% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.67% 14.29% 14.60%
Number of salaries quoted 31 30 33
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -3.06% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £90,000 -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 225 210 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 13.38% 13.27% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 193 166 168
10th Percentile £29,250 £22,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £30,750 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £38,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% -26.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £59,375 £95,000
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Oxford -7 10 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Abingdon +56 6 £40,000 -11.94%
Banbury - 3 £55,000 -
Bicester - 2 £37,250 -
Witney - 2 £27,500 -
Thame - 1 £72,500 -
Kidlington - 1 £42,500 - 1
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.18%) OpenStack
3 2 (6.06%) nginx
4 1 (3.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Akamai
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (81.82%) LAN
2 17 (51.52%) DNS
3 10 (30.30%) DHCP
3 10 (30.30%) OSPF
4 7 (21.21%) Firewall
4 7 (21.21%) VPN
5 6 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 6 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (12.12%) Wireless
7 3 (9.09%) BGP
7 3 (9.09%) Network Security
7 3 (9.09%) SAN
7 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (6.06%) SSL
8 2 (6.06%) VLAN
8 2 (6.06%) VoIP
8 2 (6.06%) VXLAN
8 2 (6.06%) WLAN
9 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) MySQL
2 6 (18.18%) InfluxDB
2 6 (18.18%) MariaDB
2 6 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Electronics
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Lead
1 7 (21.21%) Network Team Leader
1 7 (21.21%) Team Leader
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
2 6 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Communications Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (3.03%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (9.09%) CCTV
3 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) Windows
2 12 (36.36%) Windows 10
3 11 (33.33%) Linux
4 10 (30.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (24.24%) Android
6 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
6 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (18.18%) Apple iOS
7 6 (18.18%) CentOS
8 4 (12.12%) Mac OS X
8 4 (12.12%) Windows 8
8 4 (12.12%) Windows XP
9 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
9 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
10 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Information Security
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
3 5 (15.15%) Open Source
3 5 (15.15%) Time Management
4 4 (12.12%) Email Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Innovative Thinking
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Network Architecture
4 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 3 (9.09%) ITIL
5 3 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (6.06%) Biology
6 2 (6.06%) Capacity Management
6 2 (6.06%) Informatics
6 2 (6.06%) Network Management
6 2 (6.06%) Project Management
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) Perl
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Korn
3 1 (3.03%) PHP
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.12%) MCP
3 3 (9.09%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) CCIE
4 2 (6.06%) CCNA
4 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.03%) MCITP
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (18.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (6.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Puppet
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 5 (15.15%) SCCM
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) PaperCut
3 1 (3.03%) WSUS
3 1 (3.03%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
1 16 (48.48%) VMware
2 10 (30.30%) Cisco
3 6 (18.18%) Citrix
3 6 (18.18%) Fortinet
3 6 (18.18%) Juniper
4 5 (15.15%) HP
5 4 (12.12%) Dell
6 3 (9.09%) Meraki
7 2 (6.06%) Aruba
7 2 (6.06%) Veeam
8 1 (3.03%) Apple
8 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.03%) Google
8 1 (3.03%) NetApp
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle
8 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.03%) SAP
8 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.03%) WatchGuard