WAN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 136 177 280
Rank change year-on-year +41 +103 -74
Permanent jobs citing WAN 794 827 925
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.34% 1.99% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.17% 17.70% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 619 667 801
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,525 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,650 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +0.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year - -4.52% +3.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,233 4,673 7,508
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.45% 11.24% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,379 3,467 4,922
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAN.

WAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

WAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 95 (11.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (7.30%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.02%) IIS
4 4 (0.50%) SAS
4 4 (0.50%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.25%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 61 (7.68%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) SPSS
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 338 (42.57%) Azure
2 248 (31.23%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (12.59%) AWS
4 65 (8.19%) Entra ID
5 33 (4.16%) GCP
6 27 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
7 25 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.15%) IaaS
7 25 (3.15%) SaaS
8 20 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 20 (2.52%) PaaS
9 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (1.89%) OneDrive
11 12 (1.51%) Mimecast
12 8 (1.01%) Rubrik
13 7 (0.88%) Nutanix
14 6 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (0.76%) GitHub
15 5 (0.63%) Datadog
16 4 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 570 (71.79%) LAN
2 378 (47.61%) Firewall
3 323 (40.68%) SD-WAN
4 214 (26.95%) VPN
5 181 (22.80%) Wi-Fi
6 172 (21.66%) DNS
7 150 (18.89%) Wireless
8 142 (17.88%) DHCP
9 136 (17.13%) MPLS
10 124 (15.62%) TCP/IP
11 119 (14.99%) Network Security
12 108 (13.60%) BGP
13 98 (12.34%) WLAN
14 97 (12.22%) VLAN
15 85 (10.71%) OSPF
16 74 (9.32%) SAN
17 68 (8.56%) Internet
18 45 (5.67%) VoIP
19 33 (4.16%) IPsec
20 28 (3.53%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.76%) DB2
5 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.50%) Power BI
7 3 (0.38%) Big Data
7 3 (0.38%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) MySQL
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.50%) MSBuild
1 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
2 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 224 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 96 (12.09%) Finance
3 69 (8.69%) Retail
4 36 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (4.16%) Telecoms
6 25 (3.15%) Legal
7 22 (2.77%) Public Sector
8 20 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.89%) Banking
10 15 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.51%) Law
12 10 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.76%) Billing
13 6 (0.76%) Marketing
13 6 (0.76%) Portuguese Language
13 6 (0.76%) Publishing
13 6 (0.76%) Spanish Language
13 6 (0.76%) Swedish Language
13 6 (0.76%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 149 (18.77%) Network Engineer
2 144 (18.14%) Senior
3 138 (17.38%) Architect
4 109 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 93 (11.71%) Analyst
6 56 (7.05%) Security Architect
7 54 (6.80%) Lead
8 53 (6.68%) Support Engineer
9 46 (5.79%) IT Engineer
10 41 (5.16%) Network Analyst
11 40 (5.04%) Senior Architect
12 38 (4.79%) Senior Network Engineer
12 38 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (4.41%) Operations Analyst
14 33 (4.16%) Cisco Architect
14 33 (4.16%) Consultant
14 33 (4.16%) Network Manager
14 33 (4.16%) Senior Cisco Architect
15 31 (3.90%) Infrastructure Architect
15 31 (3.90%) Network Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.01%) HTML
2 7 (0.88%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.63%) XMPP
4 4 (0.50%) .NET
4 4 (0.50%) Web Services
4 4 (0.50%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (0.38%) LDAP
6 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.25%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.25%) Middleware
6 2 (0.25%) TAPI
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.13%) OAuth
7 1 (0.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 148 (18.64%) Data Centre
2 77 (9.70%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 42 (5.29%) Public Cloud
5 28 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (3.02%) Driving Licence
7 18 (2.27%) Client/Server
7 18 (2.27%) IoT
8 16 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.76%) PKI
10 13 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
11 12 (1.51%) PMI
11 12 (1.51%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.13%) GNSS
13 8 (1.01%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.76%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.76%) Replication
16 5 (0.63%) Security Posture
16 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 256 (32.24%) Windows
2 132 (16.62%) Windows Server
3 88 (11.08%) Linux
4 42 (5.29%) Windows 10
5 37 (4.66%) Ubuntu
5 37 (4.66%) VMS
5 37 (4.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (3.53%) Android
8 27 (3.40%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.13%) CentOS
11 9 (1.13%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.63%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.63%) Windows XP
14 4 (0.50%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (19.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 118 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
3 104 (13.10%) Agile
4 101 (12.72%) Presales
5 83 (10.45%) Project Management
6 79 (9.95%) ITIL
7 78 (9.82%) Application Security
8 76 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (9.45%) Information Security
10 73 (9.19%) Customer Service
11 66 (8.31%) Mentoring
12 55 (6.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 55 (6.93%) Time Management
13 47 (5.92%) Project Delivery
14 45 (5.67%) Roadmaps
15 44 (5.54%) CI/CD
16 43 (5.42%) Migration
17 42 (5.29%) Analytics
18 40 (5.04%) DevOps
18 40 (5.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 63 (7.93%) PowerShell
2 46 (5.79%) Python
3 14 (1.76%) Bash
4 12 (1.51%) SQL
5 4 (0.50%) Java
6 3 (0.38%) C++
6 3 (0.38%) Perl
7 2 (0.25%) Korn
7 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.25%) PHP
8 1 (0.13%) C#
8 1 (0.13%) Delphi
8 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 224 (28.21%) Cisco Certification
2 129 (16.25%) CCNA
2 129 (16.25%) CCNP
3 110 (13.85%) Degree
4 79 (9.95%) Security Cleared
5 57 (7.18%) CISSP
6 53 (6.68%) CCIE
7 49 (6.17%) Azure Certification
8 48 (6.05%) DV Cleared
9 47 (5.92%) CCSP
10 46 (5.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 40 (5.04%) CCDP
12 39 (4.91%) AWS Certification
13 34 (4.28%) CISM
14 33 (4.16%) CCSK
15 24 (3.02%) SC Cleared
16 23 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
18 16 (2.02%) APMP
19 13 (1.64%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.05%) NIST
2 48 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (5.16%) SLA
4 21 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.38%) PMO
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 257 (32.37%) Active Directory
2 125 (15.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (13.10%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.16%) Docker
5 28 (3.53%) vSphere
6 26 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (1.13%) NFS
10 4 (0.50%) Firmware
11 2 (0.25%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (8.44%) Ansible
1 67 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (6.80%) Terraform
3 37 (4.66%) Kubernetes
4 36 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
4 36 (4.53%) WSUS
5 35 (4.41%) FortiGate
6 19 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (2.27%) Stealthwatch
8 16 (2.02%) SCCM
9 15 (1.89%) CASB
10 13 (1.64%) Nmap
11 12 (1.51%) Opsgenie
11 12 (1.51%) VxRail
11 12 (1.51%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.63%) PaperCut
12 5 (0.63%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
14 3 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 346 (43.58%) Cisco
2 327 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 179 (22.54%) VMware
4 160 (20.15%) Meraki
5 92 (11.59%) Fortinet
6 73 (9.19%) Juniper
7 55 (6.93%) Palo Alto
8 52 (6.55%) Aruba
9 48 (6.05%) HP
10 42 (5.29%) SolarWinds
11 39 (4.91%) Apple
12 35 (4.41%) Dell
13 33 (4.16%) Adobe
14 32 (4.03%) Citrix
15 31 (3.90%) Veeam
16 24 (3.02%) NetApp
17 20 (2.52%) Ruckus Wireless
18 19 (2.39%) CheckPoint
18 19 (2.39%) Rapid7
19 14 (1.76%) Splunk