WAN Jobs in South London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 80 71 82
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing WAN 5 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.70% 1.71% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 7.46% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 5
10th Percentile £42,875 £23,000 -
25th Percentile £43,438 £29,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £38,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% -23.00% +49.25%
75th Percentile £77,188 £59,913 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,875 £65,000 -
London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,150
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.26% -8.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 231 201 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 32.31% 22.89% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 19 60 85
10th Percentile £31,500 £27,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £31,813 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £67,500 £65,000
London median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.83% -4.00% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in South London

WAN
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for WAN in South London

WAN
Salary Histogram in South London

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

Salary histogram for WAN in South London

WAN
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South London 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
Bromley - 3 £46,250 -
Croydon 0 2 £73,750 +183.65%
WAN
London

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) NAS
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) BCP
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Compliance Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (40.00%) Rapid7
3 2 (40.00%) SonicWALL
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Zerto
4 1 (20.00%) Apple