WAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 153 172
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 -30
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1,515 1,368 1,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.14% 2.27% 2.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.50% 12.54% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 977 1,235
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,313 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year - -4.52% +3.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,776 10,911 10,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.11% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,770 6,474
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,889 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +23 426 £42,500 -5.56% 82
Midlands +60 339 £42,000 - 60
West Midlands +89 285 £42,000 -6.67% 45
South East -14 274 £48,500 +14.12% 65
South West +34 237 £48,500 +14.12% 34
North West +4 224 £42,500 -5.56% 52
Yorkshire +75 171 £52,500 +16.67% 25
East of England +35 146 £42,500 +6.25% 29
Scotland -59 83 £38,000 -10.59% 21
East Midlands -37 48 £45,000 +20.00% 15
North East -18 42 £38,000 -10.59% 5
Wales +19 39 £40,500 -10.00% 7
Northern Ireland +1 3 £37,500 -11.76% 4
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - -
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 190 (12.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 162 (10.69%) SharePoint
3 75 (4.95%) IIS
4 11 (0.73%) SharePoint 2010
4 11 (0.73%) SharePoint 2013
5 9 (0.59%) CMS
6 6 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.066%) Apache
10 1 (0.066%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.066%) Confluence
10 1 (0.066%) Site Server
Applications
1 149 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.066%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.066%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 638 (42.11%) Azure
2 565 (37.29%) Microsoft 365
3 197 (13.00%) AWS
4 181 (11.95%) Entra ID
5 73 (4.82%) OneDrive
6 59 (3.89%) IaaS
7 55 (3.63%) GCP
7 55 (3.63%) PaaS
7 55 (3.63%) SaaS
8 49 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
9 30 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 22 (1.45%) Mimecast
11 17 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (0.66%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.53%) Serverless
15 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.46%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,085 (71.62%) LAN
2 618 (40.79%) Firewall
3 380 (25.08%) SD-WAN
4 296 (19.54%) DNS
4 296 (19.54%) VPN
5 275 (18.15%) TCP/IP
6 270 (17.82%) DHCP
7 261 (17.23%) Wi-Fi
8 228 (15.05%) Wireless
9 200 (13.20%) MPLS
10 182 (12.01%) VLAN
11 155 (10.23%) BGP
12 149 (9.83%) WLAN
13 135 (8.91%) Network Security
14 128 (8.45%) OSPF
15 112 (7.39%) VoIP
16 105 (6.93%) SAN
17 81 (5.35%) Internet
18 58 (3.83%) IPsec
19 49 (3.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.18%) NoSQL
3 15 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.73%) MySQL
6 10 (0.66%) Power BI
7 9 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.40%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.40%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.20%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.13%) DB2
11 2 (0.13%) DTS
11 2 (0.13%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.066%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.066%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.066%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.066%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (0.66%) JIRA
2 8 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.46%) Git
4 4 (0.26%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 452 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 138 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (6.73%) Finance
4 84 (5.54%) Telecoms
5 70 (4.62%) Retail
6 59 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (2.51%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.44%) Law
10 29 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.85%) Legal
12 24 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.58%) Electronics
13 22 (1.45%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.45%) Public Sector
14 21 (1.39%) Police
15 15 (0.99%) Banking
16 13 (0.86%) Marketing
17 9 (0.59%) French Language
17 9 (0.59%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 300 (19.80%) Network Engineer
2 241 (15.91%) Senior
3 232 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 195 (12.87%) Analyst
5 155 (10.23%) Support Engineer
6 117 (7.72%) IT Support
7 113 (7.46%) IT Engineer
8 110 (7.26%) Architect
9 87 (5.74%) Lead
10 74 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
11 71 (4.69%) Senior Network Engineer
12 61 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support
13 59 (3.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 59 (3.89%) IT Analyst
14 57 (3.76%) IT Manager
15 55 (3.63%) Support Analyst
16 53 (3.50%) 3rd Line Support
16 53 (3.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 51 (3.37%) Security Architect
18 50 (3.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.52%) REST
1 23 (1.52%) WebRTC
2 11 (0.73%) LDAP
3 8 (0.53%) .NET
4 4 (0.26%) Akka
4 4 (0.26%) Web Services
5 3 (0.20%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.20%) SAML
6 2 (0.13%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.13%) Middleware
6 2 (0.13%) Node.js
6 2 (0.13%) React
6 2 (0.13%) RESTful
6 2 (0.13%) ServiceStack
6 2 (0.13%) X-Windows
7 1 (0.066%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.066%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.066%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.066%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 189 (12.48%) Data Centre
2 105 (6.93%) Driving Licence
3 84 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 72 (4.75%) Clustering
5 56 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 51 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.24%) IoT
8 33 (2.18%) PKI
9 32 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 31 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.78%) Replication
12 26 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.58%) PMI
14 22 (1.45%) NHS
15 17 (1.12%) GNSS
15 17 (1.12%) Operational Technology
16 16 (1.06%) Client/Server
17 15 (0.99%) Fat Client
17 15 (0.99%) Thin Client
18 13 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 610 (40.26%) Windows
2 333 (21.98%) Windows Server
3 159 (10.50%) Windows 10
4 135 (8.91%) Linux
5 79 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 69 (4.55%) Android
7 66 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (2.97%) Apple iOS
8 45 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 33 (2.18%) Mac OS
10 32 (2.11%) Windows 7
11 18 (1.19%) VyOS
11 18 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 15 (0.99%) VMS
13 13 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (0.73%) CentOS
15 8 (0.53%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.46%) Windows XP
17 6 (0.40%) Unix
17 6 (0.40%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
2 297 (19.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 240 (15.84%) ITIL
4 193 (12.74%) Customer Service
5 190 (12.54%) Cybersecurity
6 126 (8.32%) Project Delivery
7 122 (8.05%) Project Management
8 117 (7.72%) Mentoring
9 110 (7.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 103 (6.80%) Time Management
11 87 (5.74%) Service Delivery
12 85 (5.61%) High Availability
13 81 (5.35%) Migration
14 79 (5.21%) Presales
15 75 (4.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (4.88%) Computer Science
17 73 (4.82%) Agile
18 70 (4.62%) Information Security
19 67 (4.42%) Service Management
20 63 (4.16%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.90%) PowerShell
1 150 (9.90%) SQL
2 62 (4.09%) Python
3 39 (2.57%) Bash
4 29 (1.91%) Java
5 25 (1.65%) Perl
6 16 (1.06%) C++
7 14 (0.92%) MATLAB
8 8 (0.53%) C
8 8 (0.53%) Tcl
8 8 (0.53%) VB
9 7 (0.46%) C#
10 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.13%) Bicep
11 2 (0.13%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.066%) Delphi
12 1 (0.066%) Korn
12 1 (0.066%) PHP
12 1 (0.066%) VBA
Qualifications
1 340 (22.44%) Cisco Certification
2 235 (15.51%) Degree
3 230 (15.18%) CCNA
4 204 (13.47%) Security Cleared
5 154 (10.17%) CCNP
6 111 (7.33%) SC Cleared
7 79 (5.21%) CCIE
8 71 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (3.70%) CISSP
10 53 (3.50%) Azure Certification
10 53 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 46 (3.04%) CCDP
12 43 (2.84%) DV Cleared
13 40 (2.64%) JNCIA
14 38 (2.51%) MCSE
15 37 (2.44%) AWS Certification
16 35 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 35 (2.31%) CCSP
17 34 (2.24%) DBS Check
18 31 (2.05%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.95%) SLA
2 45 (2.97%) NIST
3 42 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 30 (1.98%) GDPR
5 26 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.92%) PMO
7 11 (0.73%) QA
8 9 (0.59%) COSHH
9 8 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.20%) JTAG
12 2 (0.13%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.066%) SOC 2
System Software
1 555 (36.63%) Active Directory
2 309 (20.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 233 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 67 (4.42%) VMware NSX
5 55 (3.63%) vSphere
6 37 (2.44%) Docker
7 24 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (1.45%) Firmware
9 22 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.66%) XenDesktop
11 8 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (0.53%) XenApp
12 6 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.40%) NFS
12 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.40%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.26%) pfSense
13 4 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 174 (11.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (4.75%) FortiGate
3 59 (3.89%) SCCM
4 37 (2.44%) Terraform
5 36 (2.38%) Ansible
5 36 (2.38%) Kubernetes
6 32 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.98%) WSUS
8 19 (1.25%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.19%) Stealthwatch
9 18 (1.19%) VxRail
10 17 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
11 15 (0.99%) CASB
12 14 (0.92%) Autotask
12 14 (0.92%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.79%) Opsgenie
14 8 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
14 8 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 683 (45.08%) Microsoft
2 508 (33.53%) Cisco
3 469 (30.96%) VMware
4 151 (9.97%) Juniper
5 134 (8.84%) Meraki
6 108 (7.13%) Fortinet
7 88 (5.81%) HP
8 71 (4.69%) Citrix
9 70 (4.62%) Palo Alto
10 69 (4.55%) Veeam
11 67 (4.42%) Apple
12 60 (3.96%) Aruba
13 58 (3.83%) Dell
14 54 (3.56%) CheckPoint
15 42 (2.77%) SolarWinds
16 38 (2.51%) Nokia
17 35 (2.31%) NetApp
18 33 (2.18%) Adobe
18 33 (2.18%) Ruckus Wireless
19 32 (2.11%) F5