WAN Jobs in Oxford

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 57 46
Rank change year-on-year +29 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing WAN 6 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 2.96% 1.66% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 9.91% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile - £57,150 £43,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +69.23%
75th Percentile £73,063 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,575 - £63,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £46,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.51% -2.63% -4.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 111 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 10.34% 16.72% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15 81 48
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,250 £25,675
25th Percentile £36,125 £36,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £72,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -23.81%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Oxford

WAN
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for WAN in Oxford

WAN
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Oxford over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Oxford

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) MQTT
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Advertising
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) ZENworks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Meraki
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet