WAN Jobs in Central London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
London > Central London

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 118 125
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +28
Permanent jobs citing WAN 46 79 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.81% 2.09% 2.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.61% 16.19% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 44 70 104
10th Percentile £38,550 £34,625 £32,325
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £111,750
London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,375
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.00% -1.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 277 488 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 10.91% 12.90% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 225 370 505
10th Percentile £35,300 £32,450 £34,509
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,063 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +4.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,897 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £87,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Central London

WAN
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for WAN in Central London

WAN
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Central London

WAN
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
City of London +3 39 £62,500 +13.64% 13
West End of London - 4 £39,000 -
City of Westminster -11 1 £26,000 - 1
WAN
London

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 14 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 26 (56.52%) Azure
2 20 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (21.74%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.22%) AWS
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) Google Workspace
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.35%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.35%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 37 (80.43%) LAN
2 17 (36.96%) SD-WAN
3 15 (32.61%) Firewall
3 15 (32.61%) Wireless
4 14 (30.43%) DHCP
4 14 (30.43%) DNS
5 11 (23.91%) VPN
6 10 (21.74%) VoIP
7 8 (17.39%) MPLS
7 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
8 7 (15.22%) Ethernet
8 7 (15.22%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (13.04%) Internet
10 5 (10.87%) IPsec
10 5 (10.87%) WLAN
11 3 (6.52%) Network Security
11 3 (6.52%) VLAN
12 2 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
13 1 (2.17%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Legal
5 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Network Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Support Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Architect
4 5 (10.87%) IT Support
4 5 (10.87%) Network Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) IT Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Mobile Computing
3 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.52%) iPhone
5 2 (4.35%) Hedge funds
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (52.17%) Windows
2 11 (23.91%) Windows Server
3 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
4 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (10.87%) Linux
6 5 (10.87%) Windows 7
6 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (4.35%) Mac OS X
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (32.61%) ITIL
3 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.04%) PRINCE2
4 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
5 5 (10.87%) Agile
5 5 (10.87%) Due Diligence
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.70%) Project Management
7 3 (6.52%) Antivirus Management
7 3 (6.52%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (6.52%) Inventory Management
7 3 (6.52%) Patch Management
7 3 (6.52%) People Management
7 3 (6.52%) Service Management
7 3 (6.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (10.87%) CCNA
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CCNP
5 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.35%) PMP
6 1 (2.17%) CCIE
6 1 (2.17%) CEH
6 1 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.17%) MCP
6 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) FortiGate
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 5 (10.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 3 (6.52%) SCCM
5 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.17%) Backup Exec
6 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (32.61%) Cisco
3 13 (28.26%) VMware
4 7 (15.22%) Google
5 6 (13.04%) CheckPoint
5 6 (13.04%) F5
5 6 (13.04%) Juniper
6 5 (10.87%) Blue Coat
7 3 (6.52%) MikroTik
8 2 (4.35%) Adobe
8 2 (4.35%) Citrix
8 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.35%) Veeam
8 2 (4.35%) Veritas
9 1 (2.17%) Cognos
9 1 (2.17%) Dell
9 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.17%) HP
9 1 (2.17%) Sun