WAN Jobs in Reading

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 90 99
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 +13
Permanent jobs citing WAN 8 28 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.57% 1.64% 2.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.51% 10.04% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 15
10th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,813 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% - +76.92%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £91,250 £79,125 £89,500
Berkshire median annual salary £48,750 £52,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +45.83% +4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 279 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 7.68% 16.33% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25 182 90
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,500 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,500 £77,250 £85,125
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -10.91%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Reading

WAN
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for WAN in Reading

WAN
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Reading over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Reading

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) Wireless
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) DWDM
4 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) DMZ
5 1 (12.50%) Internet
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) API Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
1 1 (12.50%) CISA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Aruba
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Mellanox
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) NVIDIA
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) VMware