WAN Engineer Jobs in London

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
England > London

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 490 629
Rank change year-on-year +90 +139 +240
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 1 25 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.11% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.11% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 1 25 12
10th Percentile - £46,250 £28,750
25th Percentile - £47,500 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £57,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% +64.29% -34.88%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £40,000
90th Percentile - £69,500 -
England median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +42.86% -36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,666 22,251 32,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,370 16,680 24,004
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in London

WAN Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for WAN Engineer in London

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, WAN Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds