WAN Jobs in Surrey

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 115 111
Rank change year-on-year +42 -4 +35
Permanent jobs citing WAN 32 40 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 2.68% 1.51% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.91% 7.23% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 31 33 26
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,300 £30,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +26.58% -34.17%
75th Percentile £62,000 £55,000 £50,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,050 £56,250
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% +11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 323 553 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 27.01% 20.85% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 133 245 204
10th Percentile £23,731 £29,200 £28,650
25th Percentile £30,800 £32,500 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.31% +1.46%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,250 £77,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Surrey over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in Surrey

WAN
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 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
Guildford +40 17 £35,000 +2.94%
Woking - 5 £66,750 -
Leatherhead +40 3 £42,500 -15.00%
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 12 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (90.63%) LAN
2 19 (59.38%) BGP
3 17 (53.13%) SD-WAN
4 16 (50.00%) OSPF
5 8 (25.00%) Firewall
5 8 (25.00%) MPLS
5 8 (25.00%) VPN
6 6 (18.75%) VLAN
7 5 (15.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (15.63%) Network Security
7 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
8 2 (6.25%) DHCP
8 2 (6.25%) DNS
9 1 (3.13%) Wireless
9 1 (3.13%) WLAN
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Network Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) Support Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) 1st Line Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) IT Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) 1st Line Support
6 5 (15.63%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Network Support Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Support
6 5 (15.63%) Cisco Support Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) IT Support
6 5 (15.63%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Lead
6 5 (15.63%) Network Support
6 5 (15.63%) Network Support Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Data Centre
2 9 (28.13%) PMI
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Business Continuity
1 14 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 9 (28.13%) Budget Management
3 9 (28.13%) Data Protection
3 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Statistics
3 9 (28.13%) Stress Testing
4 8 (25.00%) Network Architecture
5 6 (18.75%) Presales
5 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) BCP
6 5 (15.63%) Business Continuity Planning
6 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations
6 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (15.63%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (15.63%) Server Management
6 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (37.50%) CCNA
3 9 (28.13%) PMI Certification
4 3 (9.38%) CCNP
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (28.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Cisco
2 15 (46.88%) Fortinet
2 15 (46.88%) Juniper
3 13 (40.63%) VMware
4 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 9 (28.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) Apple