WAN Jobs in the East of England

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -48 +15 +60
Permanent jobs citing WAN 56 161 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.47% 2.50% 2.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.55% 16.40% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 46 119 83
10th Percentile £29,375 £26,200 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £30,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +3.66% -18.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £77,500 £65,550
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 855 982 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.40% 15.25% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 236 749 352
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,875 £72,500 £72,375
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -4.76%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the East of England

WAN
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the East of England.

Salary trend for WAN in the East of England

WAN
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in the East of England

WAN
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Hertfordshire -16 23 £56,250 +35.54% 17
Essex -1 12 £35,000 -30.00% 5
Bedfordshire -6 9 £33,500 -40.44% 7
Norfolk +16 5 £32,533 -27.70% 6
Suffolk -37 5 £50,000 -31.03% 2
Cambridgeshire +19 2 £62,500 +95.31% 10
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (32.14%) SharePoint
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (44.64%) Azure
3 17 (30.36%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) AWS
4 6 (10.71%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.79%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.79%) PaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (78.57%) LAN
2 29 (51.79%) Firewall
3 28 (50.00%) VPN
4 18 (32.14%) TCP/IP
5 12 (21.43%) FTP
5 12 (21.43%) HTTP
5 12 (21.43%) SMTP
6 9 (16.07%) Internet
6 9 (16.07%) Network Security
6 9 (16.07%) VoIP
7 8 (14.29%) VLAN
8 7 (12.50%) SD-WAN
9 6 (10.71%) BGP
10 5 (8.93%) DNS
10 5 (8.93%) Intranet
11 4 (7.14%) DHCP
11 4 (7.14%) OSPF
11 4 (7.14%) SAN
12 3 (5.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Advertising
4 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Aviation
7 2 (3.57%) Local Government
7 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) IT Support
1 10 (17.86%) Lead
2 9 (16.07%) Analyst
3 8 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (8.93%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) IT Support Specialist
5 5 (8.93%) Support Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Support Specialist
6 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Project Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) LDAP
2 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.79%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Client/Server
1 12 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (8.93%) Social Media
3 3 (5.36%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.36%) MISP
4 2 (3.57%) CCTV
4 2 (3.57%) Clustering
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) PKI
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) SCADA
5 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.93%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.57%) Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Android
5 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) ITIL
1 15 (26.79%) Network Management
2 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.21%) Customer Service
4 12 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 12 (21.43%) Security Operations
4 12 (21.43%) SIEM
5 10 (17.86%) Malware Analysis
5 10 (17.86%) Reverse Engineering
6 9 (16.07%) People Management
6 9 (16.07%) Use Case
7 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (14.29%) Line Management
8 7 (12.50%) Blue Team
8 7 (12.50%) ITSM
8 7 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.93%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (8.93%) Proactive Maintenance
9 5 (8.93%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.50%) Bash
2 7 (12.50%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) C++
3 6 (10.71%) Perl
4 1 (1.79%) Bicep
4 1 (1.79%) Scala
4 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Degree
4 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.71%) DBS Check
5 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.36%) CCNA
7 3 (5.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.79%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.79%) CCNP
9 1 (1.79%) CCSP
9 1 (1.79%) CISM
9 1 (1.79%) CISMP
9 1 (1.79%) CISSP
9 1 (1.79%) GCIA
9 1 (1.79%) GCIH
9 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.79%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 25 (44.64%) Active Directory
2 14 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 9 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.79%) Firmware
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (17.86%) QRadar
3 7 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (8.93%) SmoothWall
5 2 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.79%) Ansible
6 1 (1.79%) Avamar
6 1 (1.79%) CASB
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.79%) Puppet
6 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (69.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (26.79%) Cisco
3 14 (25.00%) VMware
4 12 (21.43%) Splunk
5 7 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 7 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 6 (10.71%) Meraki
7 5 (8.93%) WatchGuard
8 4 (7.14%) Aruba
8 4 (7.14%) Citrix
8 4 (7.14%) HP
9 2 (3.57%) Dell
9 2 (3.57%) EMC
9 2 (3.57%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.79%) Avaya
10 1 (1.79%) Databricks
10 1 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.79%) F5
10 1 (1.79%) Meru Networks