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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 585 918
Rank change year-on-year +102 +333 -280
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 26 18 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.058% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.061% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 26 17 6
10th Percentile £46,250 £28,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £39,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -40.00% +54.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £39,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £40,000 £70,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £37,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.14% -38.33% +9.09%

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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN Engineer in London

WAN Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Central London +42 3 £87,500 +150.00% 1
WAN Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, 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 26 (100.00%) WAN
2 24 (92.31%) LAN
2 24 (92.31%) SD-WAN
3 22 (84.62%) Cisco
3 22 (84.62%) Meraki
4 20 (76.92%) Azure
4 20 (76.92%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (69.23%) Aruba
6 17 (65.38%) Cisco ISE
6 17 (65.38%) Public Cloud
6 17 (65.38%) Presales
6 17 (65.38%) Fortinet
6 17 (65.38%) Sales Enablement
7 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (15.38%) Firewall
9 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
9 3 (11.54%) Law
9 3 (11.54%) VPN
9 3 (11.54%) CCNP
9 3 (11.54%) CCNA
9 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
10 2 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
10 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
10 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (7.69%) HP
10 2 (7.69%) NetApp
10 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity
10 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
10 2 (7.69%) Unified Communications

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 20 (76.92%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) IaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) PaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) WAN
2 24 (92.31%) LAN
2 24 (92.31%) SD-WAN
3 20 (76.92%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (65.38%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (15.38%) Firewall
6 3 (11.54%) VPN
7 2 (7.69%) Unified Communications
8 1 (3.85%) BGP
8 1 (3.85%) DHCP
8 1 (3.85%) DNS
8 1 (3.85%) HSRP
8 1 (3.85%) Internet
8 1 (3.85%) MPLS
8 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.85%) OSPF
8 1 (3.85%) PBX
8 1 (3.85%) VSAN
8 1 (3.85%) Wireless
8 1 (3.85%) WLAN
General
1 3 (11.54%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 17 (65.38%) Public Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) FlexPod
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Presales
1 17 (65.38%) Sales Enablement
2 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
2 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
2 2 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps
3 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (3.85%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.54%) CCNA
2 3 (11.54%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
1 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Cisco
1 22 (84.62%) Meraki
2 18 (69.23%) Aruba
3 17 (65.38%) Fortinet
4 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
5 2 (7.69%) HP
5 2 (7.69%) NetApp
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) Dell
6 1 (3.85%) Juniper
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.85%) Mitel
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.85%) Veeam
6 1 (3.85%) VMware