WAN Jobs in Somerset

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +15
Permanent jobs citing WAN 10 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 2.70% 0.38% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.86% 2.19% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £38,175 £31,250 £32,375
25th Percentile £41,563 £36,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £47,500 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.15% +9.83% -3.89%
75th Percentile £57,057 £53,750 £47,125
90th Percentile - £56,750 £50,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,375
% change year-on-year +11.11% +6.19% +5.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 137 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 15.14% 17.21% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 50 130 64
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,375 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £29,606 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -2.22% +14.35%
75th Percentile £62,077 £57,000 £59,344
90th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £77,500
South West median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -6.25%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Somerset

WAN
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for WAN in Somerset

WAN
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Somerset over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Somerset

WAN
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 30 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
Portishead - 8 £56,121 -
Frome - 1 £41,500 -
WAN
South West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) EIGRP
2 6 (60.00%) OSPF
2 6 (60.00%) RIP
2 6 (60.00%) SNMP
2 6 (60.00%) SSH
3 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 3 (30.00%) DHCP
4 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) VLAN
5 2 (20.00%) DMZ
5 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
6 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) VoIP
General
1 6 (60.00%) Police
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
1 6 (60.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
1 6 (60.00%) Inventory Management
1 6 (60.00%) Line Management
1 6 (60.00%) Network Design
1 6 (60.00%) Network Management
1 6 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCP
1 2 (20.00%) MCSA
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Iperf
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Ruckus Wireless
4 2 (20.00%) SonicWALL
5 1 (10.00%) Google