WAN Job Trends in Basingstoke

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 28 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -15
Permanent jobs citing WAN 21 30 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 6.48% 4.86% 5.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.58% 18.99% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 21 30 16
10th Percentile - - £29,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,000 - £73,000
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +27.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Basingstoke

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 93 158 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 28.70% 25.61% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 87 132 69
10th Percentile £48,850 £46,250 £29,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +5.77% +15.56%
75th Percentile £71,125 £62,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £72,600
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

WAN job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

WAN
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WAN in Basingstoke

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (95.24%) LAN
1 20 (95.24%) VPN
2 13 (61.90%) Firewall
3 9 (42.86%) Network Security
4 7 (33.33%) Junos
4 7 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (9.52%) BGP
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (9.52%) IPsec
6 2 (9.52%) IPv4
6 2 (9.52%) IPv6
6 2 (9.52%) OSPF
6 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
6 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) WLAN
7 1 (4.76%) IKE
7 1 (4.76%) MPLS
7 1 (4.76%) RIP
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Consultant
2 6 (28.57%) Design Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Design Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Network Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Design Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (14.29%) Change Consultant
6 2 (9.52%) Network Consultant
6 2 (9.52%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Security Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 11 (52.38%) Network Design
3 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 6 (28.57%) High Availability
3 6 (28.57%) Programme Management
3 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (23.81%) Requirements Management
5 2 (9.52%) Capacity Management
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Network Management
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
6 1 (4.76%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (4.76%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 14 (66.67%) CCNA
3 14 (66.67%) CCNP
3 14 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (42.86%) JNCIA
5 6 (28.57%) JNCIS
6 1 (4.76%) CISSP
6 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) KVM
1 2 (9.52%) RHEV
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Endace
2 2 (9.52%) Nagios
2 2 (9.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
2 19 (90.48%) Juniper
3 6 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.52%) HP
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Fujitsu
5 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto