WAN Optimization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WAN Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 904 933 1198
Rank change year-on-year +29 +265 -325
Permanent jobs citing WAN Optimisation 1 40 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.001% 0.038% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.001% 0.040% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 1 36 19
10th Percentile - £36,250 -
25th Percentile - £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £46,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +72.04% +32.86% -44.88%
75th Percentile - £59,250 £39,053
90th Percentile - £80,000 £43,985
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £42,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +88.24% +21.43% -41.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

WAN Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

WAN Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK

WAN Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK

WAN Optimisation
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +80 1 £80,000 +64.10% 1
Work from Home +71 1 £80,000 +60.00%
UK excluding London -29 1 £80,000 +88.24% 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 -

WAN Optimisation
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) GLBP
1 1 (100.00%) IGRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Riverbed