WAN Jobs in Hampshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 128 102
Rank change year-on-year +39 -26 +42
Permanent jobs citing WAN 33 68 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.68% 1.62% 2.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.92% 10.24% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 24 63 39
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £63,688 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £66,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% +11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 664 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.89% 15.84% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 255 588 401
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,925 £26,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,000 £76,000
South East median annual salary £45,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% -5.26%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Hampshire

WAN
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Basingstoke +20 23 £56,500 +50.67% 18
Southampton +32 2 - - 16
Fareham +15 2 £29,000 -35.56%
Hook - 2 £31,500 - 1
Portsmouth -12 1 - - 17
Farnborough - 1 - -
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure AI
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.06%) IaaS
4 2 (6.06%) PaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) LAN
2 8 (24.24%) VPN
3 6 (18.18%) BGP
3 6 (18.18%) Firewall
3 6 (18.18%) Junos
4 5 (15.15%) MPLS
4 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
6 3 (9.09%) DNS
6 3 (9.09%) OSPF
6 3 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (6.06%) IPsec
7 2 (6.06%) PBX
7 2 (6.06%) VLAN
7 2 (6.06%) Wireless
7 2 (6.06%) WLAN
8 1 (3.03%) GPON
8 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
1 2 (6.06%) MySQL
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Git
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
1 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.03%) Advertising
2 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Architect
2 11 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Field Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Network Field Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (12.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
6 2 (6.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support
6 2 (6.06%) IT Support
6 2 (6.06%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Service Desk Support
6 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
2 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) CentOS
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Network Design
2 7 (21.21%) Customer Service
3 6 (18.18%) ITIL
3 6 (18.18%) Network Management
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) Network Architecture
5 3 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 3 (9.09%) Service Management
6 2 (6.06%) Change Management
6 2 (6.06%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.06%) Log Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) Programme Management
6 2 (6.06%) RBAC
6 2 (6.06%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) Bicep
1 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.06%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) CCNP
3 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (21.21%) CCNA
5 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
6 3 (9.09%) JNCIA
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
7 2 (6.06%) JNCIS
8 1 (3.03%) CCIE
8 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
2 2 (6.06%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) KVM
3 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Ansible
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Juniper
2 17 (51.52%) Cisco
3 4 (12.12%) Dell
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) HP
4 3 (9.09%) VMware
5 2 (6.06%) Apple
5 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.06%) Citrix
5 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 2 (6.06%) Draytek
5 2 (6.06%) Meraki
5 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.06%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (6.06%) WatchGuard
6 1 (3.03%) ADVA
6 1 (3.03%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.03%) F5
6 1 (3.03%) Mellanox
6 1 (3.03%) NVIDIA