WAN Job Trends in Edinburgh

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 77 68
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +41
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1 2 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.095% 0.23% 1.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.45% 2.99% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 19
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £56,250 - £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +80.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,500 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +55.38% -35.00% +19.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 69 67 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.54% 7.76% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 41 45 143
10th Percentile - £26,188 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £55,000 £95,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £146,300 £74,487
Scotland median annual salary £38,750 £33,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.42% -34.00% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

WAN
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft