WAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 133 163
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 -28
Permanent jobs citing WAN 97 132 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.45% 2.16% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.06% 13.51% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 73 79 85
10th Percentile £35,800 £27,500 £29,850
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £79,750 £72,250
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
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 964 977 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.39% 15.96% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 684 552 766
10th Percentile £28,325 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £79,375
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +9 45 £52,500 +47.89% 11
Oxfordshire +24 34 £46,250 -2.63% 5
Buckinghamshire -45 19 £45,000 -14.29% 4
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 18 (18.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.19%) OpenStack
3 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.06%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.14%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (36.08%) Azure
3 14 (14.43%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.06%) SaaS
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Akamai
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.03%) OCI
6 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (62.89%) LAN
2 41 (42.27%) Firewall
3 40 (41.24%) SD-WAN
4 27 (27.84%) Wireless
5 26 (26.80%) DNS
6 19 (19.59%) DHCP
7 17 (17.53%) VPN
8 14 (14.43%) TCP/IP
9 13 (13.40%) OSPF
10 11 (11.34%) Network Security
11 10 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (9.28%) SAN
13 8 (8.25%) VoIP
14 6 (6.19%) BGP
14 6 (6.19%) Cisco Firepower
15 5 (5.15%) NAS
15 5 (5.15%) SSL
15 5 (5.15%) VLAN
16 4 (4.12%) Wireshark
17 3 (3.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) MySQL
2 6 (6.19%) InfluxDB
2 6 (6.19%) MariaDB
2 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.15%) Git
General
1 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.09%) Banking
2 3 (3.09%) Finance
2 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
2 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.06%) Electronics
3 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Architect
2 25 (25.77%) Senior
3 18 (18.56%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) IP Architect
6 12 (12.37%) Network Engineer
7 11 (11.34%) Cisco Architect
7 11 (11.34%) Senior Architect
7 11 (11.34%) Senior Cisco Architect
8 9 (9.28%) Analyst
8 9 (9.28%) IT Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) IT Support
8 9 (9.28%) Support Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (8.25%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) IT Analyst
10 7 (7.22%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Network Team Leader
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.03%) EDI
2 1 (1.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.25%) PKI
3 4 (4.12%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.09%) CCTV
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (47.42%) Windows
2 24 (24.74%) Windows Server
3 19 (19.59%) Linux
4 16 (16.49%) Windows 10
5 13 (13.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (8.25%) Android
8 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (6.19%) Apple iOS
9 6 (6.19%) CentOS
10 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (4.12%) Mac OS X
11 4 (4.12%) Windows 8
11 4 (4.12%) Windows XP
12 3 (3.09%) Mac OS
12 3 (3.09%) Ubuntu
13 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 17 (17.53%) Time Management
2 16 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (14.43%) ITIL
4 13 (13.40%) Business Development
5 12 (12.37%) Customer Service
5 12 (12.37%) Information Security
6 11 (11.34%) Customer Engagement
6 11 (11.34%) Presales
6 11 (11.34%) Software Licensing
7 10 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.22%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.22%) Open Source
9 6 (6.19%) Analytics
10 5 (5.15%) Migration
10 5 (5.15%) People Management
11 4 (4.12%) Email Migration
11 4 (4.12%) Network Architecture
11 4 (4.12%) Network Monitoring
11 4 (4.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) Bash
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.15%) Perl
5 3 (3.09%) SQL
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
6 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (28.87%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (24.74%) CCNA
3 20 (20.62%) Degree
4 15 (15.46%) CCNP
4 15 (15.46%) Security Cleared
5 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
6 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (7.22%) MCP
8 4 (4.12%) MCSE
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.09%) JNCIA
10 2 (2.06%) CCIE
10 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.03%) MCITP
11 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.12%) SLA
3 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (37.11%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.49%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (3.09%) vSphere
6 2 (2.06%) Docker
6 2 (2.06%) Firmware
6 2 (2.06%) KVM
6 2 (2.06%) QEMU
6 2 (2.06%) Xen
7 1 (1.03%) NFS
7 1 (1.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) SCCM
2 6 (6.19%) Stealthwatch
2 6 (6.19%) Terraform
3 5 (5.15%) Ansible
3 5 (5.15%) CASB
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.15%) Puppet
3 5 (5.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 3 (3.09%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.03%) Nessus
6 1 (1.03%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.03%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.03%) WSUS
6 1 (1.03%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 45 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 40 (41.24%) Cisco
3 31 (31.96%) VMware
4 18 (18.56%) Juniper
5 17 (17.53%) Fortinet
6 15 (15.46%) Meraki
7 12 (12.37%) Apple
8 11 (11.34%) Adobe
9 10 (10.31%) Citrix
10 7 (7.22%) Dell
11 5 (5.15%) HP
12 3 (3.09%) CheckPoint
12 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
13 2 (2.06%) Aruba
13 2 (2.06%) Google
13 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
13 2 (2.06%) Snow
13 2 (2.06%) SolarWinds
13 2 (2.06%) Veeam
13 2 (2.06%) WatchGuard