Local & Wide Area Network Engineer (LAN/WAN Engineer)
UK

The median Local & Wide Area Network Engineer (LAN/WAN Engineer) salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 907 955 1222
Rank change year-on-year +48 +267 -350
Permanent jobs requiring a LAN/WAN Engineer 7 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.010% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £60,000 £31,300 £37,700
25th Percentile £67,500 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £33,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% -26.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £43,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £48,700 £65,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £33,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +127.27% -22.35% -22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

LAN/WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured LAN/WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LAN/WAN Engineer in the UK

LAN/WAN Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN/WAN Engineer.

Salary trend for LAN/WAN Engineer in the UK

LAN/WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN/WAN Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN/WAN Engineer in the UK

LAN/WAN Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN/WAN Engineer within the UK 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
England +101 7 £75,000 +127.27% 1
London - 4 £75,000 - 1
Work from Home +70 3 £75,000 +50.00%
UK excluding London -15 3 £75,000 +127.27%
North of England +41 2 £75,000 -
North West +9 2 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £75,000 -
East of England - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands +15 1 £65,000 -
Midlands +12 1 £65,000 -
South East - 1 £65,000 -

LAN/WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, LAN/WAN Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring LAN/WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 5 (71.43%) SD-WAN
4 4 (57.14%) WLAN
4 4 (57.14%) Meraki
4 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
5 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (28.57%) HP
6 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
6 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (28.57%) NetApp
6 2 (28.57%) Business Development
6 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
6 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (28.57%) Presales
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (14.29%) VxRail
7 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
7 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 1 (14.29%) Azure
7 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
7 1 (14.29%) VSAN
7 1 (14.29%) Snow

LAN/WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) SD-WAN
4 4 (57.14%) WLAN
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
6 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (14.29%) DHCP
7 1 (14.29%) DNS
7 1 (14.29%) Internet
7 1 (14.29%) MPLS
7 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
7 1 (14.29%) PBX
7 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
7 1 (14.29%) VSAN
7 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) FlexPod
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Business Development
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (28.57%) Presales
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
1 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Meraki
2 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Mitel
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
4 1 (14.29%) Snow
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (14.29%) VMware