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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 151 171
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 -29
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1,504 1,385 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.12% 2.30% 2.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 12.68% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 982 1,220
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% -3.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,313 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +4.17%

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 9,781 10,926 10,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.77% 18.16% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,086 4,783 6,460
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -3.23% +3.33%
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 12 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 12 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 +30 427 £42,500 -5.56% 86
Midlands +59 337 £42,000 +1.82% 59
West Midlands +100 285 £42,000 -1.18% 45
South East -14 267 £48,500 +14.12% 63
South West +28 236 £48,500 +14.12% 29
North West +1 225 £42,500 -5.56% 53
Yorkshire +67 171 £52,500 +16.67% 27
East of England +32 146 £42,500 +6.25% 29
Scotland -56 83 £38,000 -10.59% 19
East Midlands -38 46 £45,500 +21.33% 14
North East -19 42 £38,000 -10.59% 6
Wales +21 37 £40,500 -10.00% 7
Northern Ireland -6 3 £37,500 -11.76% 5
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 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
1 186 (12.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 162 (10.77%) SharePoint
3 75 (4.99%) IIS
4 12 (0.80%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
5 9 (0.60%) CMS
6 6 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.27%) 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
1 147 (9.77%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.27%) 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
1 634 (42.15%) Azure
2 558 (37.10%) Microsoft 365
3 196 (13.03%) AWS
4 179 (11.90%) Entra ID
5 72 (4.79%) OneDrive
6 58 (3.86%) IaaS
7 56 (3.72%) GCP
7 56 (3.72%) SaaS
8 55 (3.66%) PaaS
9 49 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
10 31 (2.06%) Power Platform
11 20 (1.33%) Mimecast
12 17 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 15 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.53%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.53%) Serverless
15 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.47%) Nutanix
15 7 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,069 (71.08%) LAN
2 611 (40.63%) Firewall
3 384 (25.53%) SD-WAN
4 295 (19.61%) DNS
5 290 (19.28%) VPN
6 272 (18.09%) TCP/IP
7 268 (17.82%) DHCP
8 260 (17.29%) Wi-Fi
9 219 (14.56%) Wireless
10 200 (13.30%) MPLS
11 175 (11.64%) VLAN
12 155 (10.31%) BGP
13 148 (9.84%) WLAN
14 132 (8.78%) Network Security
15 128 (8.51%) OSPF
16 112 (7.45%) VoIP
17 103 (6.85%) SAN
18 77 (5.12%) Internet
19 57 (3.79%) IPsec
20 49 (3.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.19%) NoSQL
3 14 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.73%) MySQL
5 11 (0.73%) Power BI
6 9 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.40%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.40%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.20%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.13%) DB2
10 2 (0.13%) DTS
10 2 (0.13%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.066%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.066%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.066%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.066%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (0.66%) JIRA
2 8 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.47%) Git
4 4 (0.27%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.20%) LabVIEW
General
1 447 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 137 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (6.72%) Finance
4 79 (5.25%) Telecoms
5 69 (4.59%) Retail
6 59 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.46%) Law
10 29 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.86%) Legal
12 24 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.60%) Electronics
13 23 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.46%) Public Sector
15 21 (1.40%) Police
16 15 (1.00%) Banking
17 13 (0.86%) Marketing
18 9 (0.60%) French Language
18 9 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 294 (19.55%) Network Engineer
2 240 (15.96%) Senior
3 230 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 189 (12.57%) Analyst
5 151 (10.04%) Support Engineer
6 114 (7.58%) IT Support
7 113 (7.51%) Architect
8 111 (7.38%) IT Engineer
9 87 (5.78%) Lead
10 74 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
11 69 (4.59%) Senior Network Engineer
12 59 (3.92%) 2nd Line Support
13 58 (3.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 58 (3.86%) IT Analyst
13 58 (3.86%) IT Manager
14 54 (3.59%) Security Architect
15 53 (3.52%) 3rd Line Support
16 52 (3.46%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 52 (3.46%) Support Analyst
17 49 (3.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.53%) REST
1 23 (1.53%) WebRTC
2 9 (0.60%) LDAP
3 8 (0.53%) .NET
4 4 (0.27%) Akka
4 4 (0.27%) 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
1 192 (12.77%) Data Centre
2 103 (6.85%) Driving Licence
3 85 (5.65%) Management Information System
4 72 (4.79%) Clustering
5 54 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 51 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.26%) IoT
8 32 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 31 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 31 (2.06%) PKI
10 27 (1.80%) Replication
11 26 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.60%) PMI
13 22 (1.46%) NHS
14 17 (1.13%) GNSS
14 17 (1.13%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.06%) Client/Server
16 15 (1.00%) Fat Client
16 15 (1.00%) Thin Client
17 13 (0.86%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 599 (39.83%) Windows
2 327 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 155 (10.31%) Windows 10
4 135 (8.98%) Linux
5 79 (5.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 69 (4.59%) Android
7 66 (4.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (2.99%) Apple iOS
9 44 (2.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 31 (2.06%) Mac OS
10 31 (2.06%) Windows 7
11 18 (1.20%) VyOS
12 17 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (1.00%) VMS
14 13 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 11 (0.73%) CentOS
16 8 (0.53%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.40%) Unix
17 6 (0.40%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.40%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
2 295 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 238 (15.82%) ITIL
4 191 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
5 185 (12.30%) Customer Service
6 125 (8.31%) Project Delivery
7 122 (8.11%) Project Management
8 118 (7.85%) Mentoring
9 109 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 104 (6.91%) Time Management
11 87 (5.78%) Service Delivery
12 84 (5.59%) High Availability
13 82 (5.45%) Presales
14 81 (5.39%) Migration
15 75 (4.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (4.92%) Agile
16 74 (4.92%) Computer Science
17 71 (4.72%) Information Security
18 67 (4.45%) Service Management
19 63 (4.19%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.97%) SQL
2 145 (9.64%) PowerShell
3 62 (4.12%) Python
4 37 (2.46%) Bash
5 29 (1.93%) Java
6 25 (1.66%) Perl
7 16 (1.06%) C++
8 14 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 8 (0.53%) C
9 8 (0.53%) Tcl
9 8 (0.53%) VB
10 7 (0.47%) C#
11 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.13%) Bicep
12 2 (0.13%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.066%) Delphi
13 1 (0.066%) Korn
13 1 (0.066%) PHP
13 1 (0.066%) VBA
Qualifications
1 339 (22.54%) Cisco Certification
2 239 (15.89%) Degree
3 229 (15.23%) CCNA
4 201 (13.36%) Security Cleared
5 157 (10.44%) CCNP
6 110 (7.31%) SC Cleared
7 79 (5.25%) CCIE
8 67 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (3.72%) CISSP
10 53 (3.52%) Azure Certification
10 53 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 46 (3.06%) CCDP
12 41 (2.73%) DV Cleared
13 40 (2.66%) JNCIA
14 39 (2.59%) MCSE
15 37 (2.46%) AWS Certification
16 35 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 35 (2.33%) CCSP
17 34 (2.26%) DBS Check
18 31 (2.06%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.85%) SLA
2 45 (2.99%) NIST
3 42 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 30 (1.99%) GDPR
5 27 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.93%) PMO
7 11 (0.73%) QA
8 9 (0.60%) 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
1 550 (36.57%) Active Directory
2 308 (20.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 231 (15.36%) Hyper-V
4 68 (4.52%) VMware NSX
5 55 (3.66%) vSphere
6 37 (2.46%) Docker
7 24 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (1.46%) Firmware
9 22 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.73%) XenDesktop
11 9 (0.60%) XenApp
12 8 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.40%) NFS
13 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.40%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.27%) pfSense
14 4 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 173 (11.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.65%) FortiGate
3 60 (3.99%) SCCM
4 37 (2.46%) Terraform
5 36 (2.39%) Ansible
5 36 (2.39%) Kubernetes
6 32 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.99%) WSUS
8 21 (1.40%) Stealthwatch
9 19 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.20%) VxRail
11 17 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (1.00%) CASB
12 15 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.93%) Autotask
13 14 (0.93%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.80%) Opsgenie
15 8 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
15 8 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 680 (45.21%) Microsoft
2 502 (33.38%) Cisco
3 468 (31.12%) VMware
4 149 (9.91%) Juniper
5 134 (8.91%) Meraki
6 108 (7.18%) Fortinet
7 87 (5.78%) HP
8 72 (4.79%) Citrix
9 70 (4.65%) Palo Alto
10 68 (4.52%) Apple
10 68 (4.52%) Veeam
11 60 (3.99%) Aruba
12 59 (3.92%) Dell
13 52 (3.46%) CheckPoint
14 42 (2.79%) SolarWinds
15 38 (2.53%) Nokia
16 36 (2.39%) Adobe
17 35 (2.33%) NetApp
18 33 (2.19%) Ruckus Wireless
19 30 (1.99%) F5