WAN Jobs in Bedfordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +20
Permanent jobs citing WAN 12 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.31% 3.72% 2.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.68% 46.43% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 8
10th Percentile - £29,350 £37,375
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +2.56% -8.02%
75th Percentile £34,250 £61,250 £59,063
90th Percentile - £61,500 £60,000
East of England median annual salary £35,000 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.84% +14.12% -12.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 28 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 62.81% 8.02% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 29 17 39
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,150 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £37,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -43.48% -
75th Percentile £52,000 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,000 £61,750 -
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £41,750
% change year-on-year -5.56% +7.78% -12.11%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Bedfordshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Bedfordshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Bedfordshire

WAN
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 2025. 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
Luton -10 1 £52,000 -9.57%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) LAN
2 5 (41.67%) WLAN
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) NGFW
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) VoIP
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Advertising
2 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Support Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Platform Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (41.67%) Client Onboarding
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Network Management
3 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.33%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) A+ Certification
1 5 (41.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 5 (41.67%) MCITP
1 5 (41.67%) MCP
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (41.67%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (8.33%) CASP
2 1 (8.33%) CCSP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISMP
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SSCP
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Aruba
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) EMC
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto