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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 95 106
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing WAN 23 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.61% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.84% 3.31% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £50,700 £32,375 £35,850
25th Percentile £57,000 £34,063 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +95.17% -9.38% +23.08%
75th Percentile £79,625 £43,000 £41,250
90th Percentile £83,000 £50,650 £45,000
Scotland median annual salary £61,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +52.50% - -5.38%

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 89 121 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.09% 9.13% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 49 62 114
10th Percentile £25,684 £30,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £25,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £62,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.20% +56.25% -30.43%
75th Percentile £54,000 £80,000 £69,225
90th Percentile £78,790 - £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -41.67%

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
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Edinburgh

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (100.00%) Firewall
2 22 (95.65%) LAN
3 20 (86.96%) Wireless
4 17 (73.91%) SD-WAN
5 16 (69.57%) Wireshark
6 5 (21.74%) BGP
7 4 (17.39%) MPLS
8 3 (13.04%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (8.70%) VPN
10 1 (4.35%) 802.11
10 1 (4.35%) DHCP
10 1 (4.35%) DNS
10 1 (4.35%) HSRP
10 1 (4.35%) IPsec
10 1 (4.35%) OSPF
10 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
General
1 21 (91.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (73.91%) Finance
3 16 (69.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Network Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Network Support
2 4 (17.39%) Network Support Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 19 (82.61%) Data Centre
2 16 (69.57%) Management Information System
3 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
4 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Load Balancing
2 17 (73.91%) Capacity Planning
3 16 (69.57%) Asset Management
3 16 (69.57%) Change Management
3 16 (69.57%) Coaching
3 16 (69.57%) Customer Service
3 16 (69.57%) Network Monitoring
3 16 (69.57%) Network Planning
3 16 (69.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 16 (69.57%) Problem Management
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Observability
5 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
6 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
6 4 (17.39%) People Management
6 4 (17.39%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
1 4 (17.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) CCNA
1 1 (4.35%) CCNP
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) Firmware
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Grafana
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) SolarWinds
2 17 (73.91%) Cisco
3 16 (69.57%) CheckPoint
3 16 (69.57%) Meraki
3 16 (69.57%) Palo Alto
4 5 (21.74%) Splunk
5 4 (17.39%) F5
5 4 (17.39%) Fortinet
5 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft