WAN Jobs in the South West

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 101 185
Rank change year-on-year -6 +84 -40
Permanent jobs citing WAN 188 191 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.14% 3.07% 1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.06% 17.11% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 111 132 108
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,728 £22,015
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -0.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,563 £51,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £65,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,041 1,116 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.84% 17.93% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 751 565 807
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £24,770
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,839 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,500 £64,330
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the South West

WAN
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for WAN in the South West

WAN
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the South West

WAN
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Devon +3 71 £57,500 +39.39% 6
Wiltshire +16 46 £50,500 +18.82% 6
Gloucestershire -7 22 £45,000 +20.00% 2
Dorset -22 22 £37,500 -9.91% 3
Bristol -9 16 £37,500 -16.67% 3
Somerset 0 7 £47,500 +11.76% 2
Cornwall -24 3 £28,500 -10.24% 2
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 40 (21.28%) SharePoint
2 32 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (6.38%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (6.38%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 17 (9.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (43.09%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (35.11%) Azure
3 26 (13.83%) AWS
4 17 (9.04%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.04%) GCP
5 15 (7.98%) SaaS
6 14 (7.45%) PaaS
7 13 (6.91%) IaaS
8 12 (6.38%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.19%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.13%) GitHub
10 4 (2.13%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.06%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.53%) AWS Fargate
13 1 (0.53%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 116 (61.70%) LAN
2 91 (48.40%) SD-WAN
3 85 (45.21%) Firewall
4 39 (20.74%) 5G
5 38 (20.21%) VPN
6 30 (15.96%) DNS
7 25 (13.30%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (10.11%) Wireless
9 18 (9.57%) VLAN
10 17 (9.04%) Network Security
11 16 (8.51%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (7.45%) DHCP
12 14 (7.45%) Software-Defined Networking
13 13 (6.91%) WLAN
14 12 (6.38%) MPLS
14 12 (6.38%) TCP/IP
15 9 (4.79%) SAN
16 6 (3.19%) VSAN
17 5 (2.66%) BGP
17 5 (2.66%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.53%) Power BI
3 1 (0.53%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 5 (2.66%) Git
2 4 (2.13%) JIRA
2 4 (2.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 65 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.23%) Electronics
3 23 (12.23%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (11.17%) Aerospace
4 21 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.85%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.19%) Marketing
8 4 (2.13%) Finance
9 2 (1.06%) Military
9 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.53%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (19.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (18.09%) Support Engineer
3 28 (14.89%) Senior
4 22 (11.70%) Lead
4 22 (11.70%) Network Engineer
5 19 (10.11%) 2nd Line Support
5 19 (10.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 19 (10.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 19 (10.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 19 (10.11%) IT Engineer
5 19 (10.11%) IT Support
6 18 (9.57%) Senior Network Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Analyst
7 16 (8.51%) GNSS Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) RF Engineer
8 15 (7.98%) Technical Leader
9 14 (7.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) Network Manager
11 12 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 11 (5.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.66%) LDAP
2 4 (2.13%) pytest
3 3 (1.60%) XMPP
4 2 (1.06%) X-Windows
5 1 (0.53%) .NET
5 1 (0.53%) Node.js
5 1 (0.53%) React
5 1 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.70%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (9.57%) Data Centre
3 16 (8.51%) GNSS
4 11 (5.85%) FPGA
5 8 (4.26%) MicroBlaze
5 8 (4.26%) Robotics
5 8 (4.26%) VHDL
6 7 (3.72%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.72%) Fat Client
6 7 (3.72%) Thin Client
7 5 (2.66%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.06%) PKI
9 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (44.68%) Windows
2 49 (26.06%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.83%) Linux
4 20 (10.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (9.04%) Windows 10
6 14 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (3.72%) Windows 7
8 5 (2.66%) Unix
9 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.60%) VMS
10 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.53%) CentOS
12 1 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (28.72%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (26.06%) Project Delivery
3 44 (23.40%) ITIL
4 39 (20.74%) B2B
4 39 (20.74%) Test Assurance
4 39 (20.74%) Test Automation
5 36 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (16.49%) Mentoring
7 30 (15.96%) Service Delivery
8 28 (14.89%) Computer Science
9 23 (12.23%) Agile
9 23 (12.23%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (10.64%) Customer Service
10 20 (10.64%) Project Management
11 19 (10.11%) Creative Thinking
11 19 (10.11%) Defect Tracking
11 19 (10.11%) Requirements Analysis
12 16 (8.51%) Customer Engagement
12 16 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
13 15 (7.98%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.77%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.51%) C++
3 15 (7.98%) MATLAB
4 8 (4.26%) C
4 8 (4.26%) Perl
4 8 (4.26%) SQL
4 8 (4.26%) Tcl
4 8 (4.26%) VB
5 5 (2.66%) Python
6 2 (1.06%) Bicep
6 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.53%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (26.06%) Degree
2 39 (20.74%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.30%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.51%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.85%) MCSE
7 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.79%) MCITP
8 7 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.19%) CCNP
10 5 (2.66%) CCIE
10 5 (2.66%) CCNA
10 5 (2.66%) HND
10 5 (2.66%) PMI Certification
10 5 (2.66%) PMP
10 5 (2.66%) RHCE
10 5 (2.66%) RHCSA
11 4 (2.13%) CCDP
11 4 (2.13%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) SLA
2 11 (5.85%) PMO
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) JTAG
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 59 (31.38%) Active Directory
1 59 (31.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (13.83%) Hyper-V
3 14 (7.45%) VMware NSX
3 14 (7.45%) vSphere
4 13 (6.91%) XenDesktop
5 10 (5.32%) XenApp
6 8 (4.26%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (4.26%) Firmware
7 5 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.13%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (1.06%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (22.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (12.77%) SCCM
3 16 (8.51%) WSUS
4 5 (2.66%) Rancher
5 4 (2.13%) Nagios
5 4 (2.13%) SCVMM
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (1.60%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.60%) OfficeScan
6 3 (1.60%) ServiceCenter
6 3 (1.60%) Terraform
7 2 (1.06%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (1.06%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.53%) Icinga
8 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 72 (38.30%) VMware
2 70 (37.23%) Microsoft
3 60 (31.91%) Cisco
4 20 (10.64%) HP
5 17 (9.04%) Citrix
6 15 (7.98%) Dell
6 15 (7.98%) Symantec
7 13 (6.91%) Google
8 8 (4.26%) Altera
8 8 (4.26%) Green Hills
8 8 (4.26%) Motorola
8 8 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.26%) Veeam
8 8 (4.26%) Xilinx
9 6 (3.19%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.19%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.66%) Meraki
11 4 (2.13%) Apple
11 4 (2.13%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.60%) Alcatel-Lucent