WAN Jobs in Glasgow

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 172 70
Rank change year-on-year +99 -102 +22
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing WAN 14 17 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.73% 0.63% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.20% 10.43% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 24
10th Percentile £33,125 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £50,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +15.61% +7.72%
75th Percentile £37,000 £53,438 £52,500
90th Percentile - £68,875 £58,650
Scotland median annual salary £36,000 £50,000 £40,750
% change year-on-year -28.00% +22.70% -5.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 125 163 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.41% 6.07% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 91 71 96
10th Percentile £13,380 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% -4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £29,875 £60,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £38,750 £69,000 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £25,087 £50,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year -49.83% +12.36% -7.29%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Glasgow

WAN
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing WAN

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) LAN
2 7 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 6 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (21.43%) BGP
4 3 (21.43%) MPLS
4 3 (21.43%) OSPF
4 3 (21.43%) VPN
4 3 (21.43%) Wireless
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Manager
2 5 (35.71%) CCTV Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) CCTV
1 5 (35.71%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Preventative Maintenance
2 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Change Control
4 1 (7.14%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) CRM
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) People Management
4 1 (7.14%) Release Management
4 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team Management
4 1 (7.14%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) CCIE
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 3 (21.43%) Aruba
3 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Riverbed
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) SonicWALL
4 1 (7.14%) VMware