WAN Job Trends in Cambridge

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 64 33
Rank change year-on-year +15 -31 +78
Permanent jobs citing WAN 4 3 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 1.01% 0.50% 5.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.05% 3.95% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 19
10th Percentile - £41,463 £37,400
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,156 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £44,125 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% -23.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £46,000 £45,906 £69,000
90th Percentile - £46,488 £69,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £44,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% -6.09% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 19 76 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.77% 12.77% 20.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 50 57
10th Percentile - £29,675 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,625 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% -7.95% +28.84%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £68,750 - £70,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £34,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -37.04% -1.82% +15.79%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Cambridge

WAN
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GxP
1 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam