WAN Jobs in England

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 190 237
Rank change year-on-year +71 +47 -47
Permanent jobs citing WAN 2,048 1,844 2,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.41% 1.98% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.88% 12.79% 12.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 1,423 1,842
10th Percentile £26,700 £29,050 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year - -1.04% +1.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,134 14,414 17,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.31% 15.46% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,588 7,484 10,465
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in England

WAN
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for WAN in England

WAN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in England

WAN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +99 597 £57,500 +1.77% 109
North of England +34 431 £42,500 -5.56% 74
Midlands +73 361 £42,000 -0.65% 71
West Midlands +97 286 £41,750 -7.22% 51
South East +5 284 £47,500 +11.76% 77
South West +60 245 £49,000 +15.29% 33
North West +16 226 £42,500 -5.56% 51
Yorkshire +70 175 £52,500 +16.67% 18
East of England +34 147 £42,500 +6.25% 38
East Midlands -10 71 £45,000 +18.42% 19
North East -17 43 £39,000 -8.24% 5
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 359 (17.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (8.98%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.93%) IIS
4 12 (0.59%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (0.59%) SharePoint 2013
5 9 (0.44%) CMS
5 9 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
8 6 (0.29%) Confluence
8 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.20%) SAS
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.098%) Apache
13 1 (0.049%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.049%) Site Server
Applications
1 187 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.15%) SPSS
6 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.20%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.098%) Shopify
4 1 (0.049%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.049%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.049%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 779 (38.04%) Microsoft 365
2 778 (37.99%) Azure
3 226 (11.04%) AWS
4 212 (10.35%) Entra ID
5 78 (3.81%) IaaS
6 71 (3.47%) OneDrive
6 71 (3.47%) SaaS
7 62 (3.03%) PaaS
8 56 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 50 (2.44%) GCP
10 31 (1.51%) Power Platform
11 30 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (1.32%) Mimecast
13 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
14 16 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 12 (0.59%) AWS Direct Connect
16 12 (0.59%) Rubrik
17 11 (0.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,485 (72.51%) LAN
2 831 (40.58%) Firewall
3 616 (30.08%) SD-WAN
4 445 (21.73%) VPN
5 434 (21.19%) Wireless
6 400 (19.53%) DNS
6 400 (19.53%) Wi-Fi
7 355 (17.33%) DHCP
8 317 (15.48%) TCP/IP
9 298 (14.55%) MPLS
10 234 (11.43%) VLAN
11 227 (11.08%) BGP
12 207 (10.11%) Network Security
13 177 (8.64%) OSPF
14 172 (8.40%) Internet
15 162 (7.91%) WLAN
16 136 (6.64%) Cisco IOS
17 135 (6.59%) VoIP
18 134 (6.54%) SAN
19 108 (5.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 20 (0.98%) NoSQL
3 13 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.54%) MySQL
6 10 (0.49%) DB2
7 9 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.44%) Power BI
8 6 (0.29%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.29%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.15%) Big Data
10 3 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.15%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.098%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.049%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.049%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.049%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.049%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (0.54%) JIRA
2 8 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.34%) Git
4 5 (0.24%) GitLab
4 5 (0.24%) Katalon Studio
4 5 (0.24%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
5 4 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.049%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.049%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.049%) Visual Studio
General
1 645 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 193 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
3 165 (8.06%) Finance
4 115 (5.62%) Retail
5 112 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 74 (3.61%) Law
7 55 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (2.59%) Legal
9 52 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.66%) Public Sector
14 22 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.07%) Electronics
15 19 (0.93%) Banking
16 18 (0.88%) Police
17 12 (0.59%) Marketing
18 11 (0.54%) Military
19 9 (0.44%) French Language
Job Titles
1 467 (22.80%) Network Engineer
2 324 (15.82%) Senior
3 267 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 241 (11.77%) IT Support
5 234 (11.43%) Analyst
6 180 (8.79%) Support Engineer
7 156 (7.62%) Architect
8 138 (6.74%) IT Engineer
9 127 (6.20%) Senior Network Engineer
10 113 (5.52%) Support Specialist
11 107 (5.22%) IT Support Specialist
12 100 (4.88%) Lead
13 77 (3.76%) 2nd Line Support
14 73 (3.56%) Network Analyst
15 68 (3.32%) IT Analyst
15 68 (3.32%) IT Manager
16 62 (3.03%) IT Support Engineer
17 60 (2.93%) 3rd Line Support
18 59 (2.88%) Support Analyst
19 58 (2.83%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (1.86%) HTML
2 34 (1.66%) 802.1X
3 31 (1.51%) XML
4 25 (1.22%) Node.js
4 25 (1.22%) React
5 23 (1.12%) AngularJS
5 23 (1.12%) CSS
5 23 (1.12%) Express.js
5 23 (1.12%) HTML5
6 19 (0.93%) REST
6 19 (0.93%) WebRTC
7 18 (0.88%) LDAP
8 11 (0.54%) SAML
9 8 (0.39%) .NET
9 8 (0.39%) EDI
9 8 (0.39%) WebSphere MQ
10 7 (0.34%) YAML
11 5 (0.24%) XMPP
12 4 (0.20%) Akka
12 4 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 250 (12.21%) Data Centre
2 130 (6.35%) Video Conferencing
3 123 (6.01%) Management Information System
4 116 (5.66%) Wiki
5 110 (5.37%) Driving Licence
6 74 (3.61%) Public Cloud
7 63 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.83%) PKI
9 55 (2.69%) Clustering
10 42 (2.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 31 (1.51%) Client/Server
11 31 (1.51%) IoT
12 29 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.17%) PMI
15 23 (1.12%) NHS
16 16 (0.78%) GNSS
16 16 (0.78%) Private Cloud
17 15 (0.73%) Fat Client
17 15 (0.73%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 861 (42.04%) Windows
2 387 (18.90%) Windows Server
3 277 (13.53%) Windows 10
4 196 (9.57%) Linux
5 174 (8.50%) Android
6 85 (4.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 79 (3.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 54 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 51 (2.49%) Apple iOS
9 51 (2.49%) VMS
10 44 (2.15%) Ubuntu
11 43 (2.10%) Mac OS
12 32 (1.56%) Windows 7
13 27 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 25 (1.22%) CentOS
15 19 (0.93%) VyOS
16 18 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.83%) Unix
18 8 (0.39%) Mac OS X
19 7 (0.34%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 361 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
3 319 (15.58%) ITIL
4 233 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
5 220 (10.74%) Customer Service
6 173 (8.45%) Computer Science
7 167 (8.15%) Project Management
8 152 (7.42%) Mobile Device Management
9 151 (7.37%) Agile
10 133 (6.49%) Mentoring
11 132 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 131 (6.40%) Project Delivery
13 130 (6.35%) Business Continuity
14 119 (5.81%) Service Delivery
15 117 (5.71%) Presales
15 117 (5.71%) Roadmaps
16 115 (5.62%) Contract Negotiation
17 113 (5.52%) BCP
18 111 (5.42%) Information Security
19 110 (5.37%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 201 (9.81%) PowerShell
2 181 (8.84%) SQL
3 126 (6.15%) Python
4 52 (2.54%) Bash
5 31 (1.51%) VB
6 27 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.22%) Perl
7 25 (1.22%) PHP
8 23 (1.12%) JSX
9 18 (0.88%) Java
10 15 (0.73%) C#
10 15 (0.73%) MATLAB
11 14 (0.68%) C++
12 7 (0.34%) C
12 7 (0.34%) Tcl
13 3 (0.15%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.098%) Bicep
14 2 (0.098%) Korn
14 2 (0.098%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.049%) VBA
Qualifications
1 411 (20.07%) Cisco Certification
2 379 (18.51%) Degree
3 264 (12.89%) CCNA
4 224 (10.94%) Security Cleared
5 202 (9.86%) CCNP
6 145 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 109 (5.32%) Master's Degree
8 98 (4.79%) SC Cleared
9 93 (4.54%) DV Cleared
10 91 (4.44%) CCIE
11 88 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (3.32%) CISSP
13 60 (2.93%) Azure Certification
14 48 (2.34%) CCSP
15 47 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 46 (2.25%) CCDP
17 41 (2.00%) AWS Certification
17 41 (2.00%) JNCIA
18 40 (1.95%) MCSE
19 38 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.39%) SLA
2 58 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (2.64%) NIST
4 40 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 31 (1.51%) GDPR
6 20 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.78%) QA
8 12 (0.59%) PMO
9 10 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.44%) COSHH
11 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.24%) NCSC
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.15%) JTAG
13 2 (0.098%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.049%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 806 (39.36%) Active Directory
2 364 (17.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 263 (12.84%) Hyper-V
4 158 (7.71%) VMware ESXi
5 116 (5.66%) XenDesktop
6 115 (5.62%) XenApp
7 105 (5.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 71 (3.47%) vSphere
9 45 (2.20%) Docker
10 34 (1.66%) VMware NSX
11 31 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
13 22 (1.07%) Firmware
14 11 (0.54%) NFS
15 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
15 7 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 6 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 6 (0.29%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.29%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.20%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 190 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 179 (8.74%) SCCM
3 105 (5.13%) AirWatch
4 75 (3.66%) FortiGate
5 74 (3.61%) Ansible
6 71 (3.47%) Terraform
7 49 (2.39%) WSUS
8 47 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (2.25%) Kubernetes
10 23 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
11 22 (1.07%) Stealthwatch
12 21 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 21 (1.03%) vCenter Server
13 19 (0.93%) VxRail
14 17 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
15 15 (0.73%) CASB
15 15 (0.73%) Puppet
16 14 (0.68%) Nmap
16 14 (0.68%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.59%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 959 (46.83%) Microsoft
2 813 (39.70%) Cisco
3 527 (25.73%) VMware
4 214 (10.45%) Meraki
5 198 (9.67%) Citrix
6 193 (9.42%) Juniper
7 176 (8.59%) Fortinet
8 122 (5.96%) HP
9 104 (5.08%) Aruba
10 90 (4.39%) Palo Alto
10 90 (4.39%) SolarWinds
11 83 (4.05%) Veeam
12 75 (3.66%) CheckPoint
13 67 (3.27%) Dell
14 62 (3.03%) Apple
15 54 (2.64%) Ruckus Wireless
16 45 (2.20%) F5
17 43 (2.10%) Nokia
18 37 (1.81%) Google
19 35 (1.71%) NetApp