WAN Jobs in Southampton

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 61 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Permanent jobs citing WAN 5 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 1.21% 1.28% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.89% 13.58% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile - £41,250 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £62,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £40,125 £65,625 -
90th Percentile £40,950 £66,250 -
Hampshire median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 81 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 8.74% 9.45% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 29 74 49
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £26,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,938 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,000 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +55.22% -29.47%
75th Percentile £48,750 £63,750 £46,000
90th Percentile £51,500 £71,000 £69,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -1.08%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Southampton

WAN
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for WAN in Southampton

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Hardware Technician
1 2 (40.00%) Repair Technician
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Meraki
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks