WAN Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 85 80
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 +25
Permanent jobs citing WAN 4 17 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.82% 1.04% 2.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.82% 5.96% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 28
10th Percentile - - £21,925
25th Percentile £61,250 £30,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £32,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +95.31% -21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £63,750 £33,500 £57,813
90th Percentile - £35,000 £66,450
East of England median annual salary £40,750 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.12% +6.25% -15.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 83 285 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 16.97% 17.37% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 46 221 89
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £29,719 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £56,875 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £69,750 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -15.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Cambridgeshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Cambridgeshire

WAN
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Cambridge +45 3 - - 16
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) 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%) 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%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
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
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Immunology
2 2 (50.00%) Line Management
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Avamar
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) VMware