WAN Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 64 76
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 +42
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing WAN 15 27 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.28% 2.14% 2.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.21% 13.04% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 16
10th Percentile £34,400 £31,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,250 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -26.67% -4.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,375 £63,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,125 £68,750
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 288 207 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 24.51% 16.38% 30.27%
Number of salaries quoted 61 111 171
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Buckinghamshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Buckinghamshire

WAN
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +28 9 £60,000 +17.07% 3
Newport Pagnell - 2 - -
Bletchley - 1 £45,000 -
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (40.00%) IBM Domino
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.67%) 4G
5 1 (6.67%) 5G
5 1 (6.67%) BGP
5 1 (6.67%) DNS
5 1 (6.67%) MPLS
5 1 (6.67%) Network Security
5 1 (6.67%) OSPF
5 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Platform Support Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Sales Representative
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) CCTV
1 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Android
2 6 (40.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 6 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) User Experience
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.67%) B2B
5 1 (6.67%) B2B Sales
5 1 (6.67%) CRM
5 1 (6.67%) ITIL
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (13.33%) CCNP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) ConnectWise
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper