WAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 132 163
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -32
Permanent jobs citing WAN 97 133 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.44% 2.15% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.22% 13.34% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 74 86 90
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £29,975
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,188 £55,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £89,375 £70,375
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 949 997 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.06% 16.14% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 683 561 757
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £27,300
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Berkshire +18 48 £52,500 +47.89% 11
Oxfordshire +17 33 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Buckinghamshire -53 16 £45,000 -7.45% 4
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (21.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.19%) OpenStack
3 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.06%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.18%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (38.14%) Azure
3 14 (14.43%) AWS
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.06%) SaaS
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Akamai
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.03%) GitHub
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.03%) OCI
5 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (63.92%) LAN
2 41 (42.27%) Firewall
3 38 (39.18%) SD-WAN
4 28 (28.87%) DNS
4 28 (28.87%) Wireless
5 21 (21.65%) DHCP
6 16 (16.49%) VPN
7 13 (13.40%) OSPF
7 13 (13.40%) TCP/IP
8 11 (11.34%) Network Security
9 10 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (9.28%) SAN
11 7 (7.22%) VoIP
12 6 (6.19%) BGP
13 5 (5.15%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (5.15%) NAS
13 5 (5.15%) SSL
13 5 (5.15%) VLAN
14 4 (4.12%) Wireshark
15 3 (3.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) MySQL
2 6 (6.19%) InfluxDB
2 6 (6.19%) MariaDB
2 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.15%) Git
General
1 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.09%) Banking
2 3 (3.09%) Finance
2 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.06%) Electronics
3 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (27.84%) Senior
2 26 (26.80%) Architect
3 19 (19.59%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) IP Architect
6 11 (11.34%) Network Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Senior Architect
7 10 (10.31%) Cisco Architect
7 10 (10.31%) Senior Cisco Architect
7 10 (10.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) IT Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Support Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (8.25%) IT Support
9 8 (8.25%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Analyst
10 7 (7.22%) Lead
10 7 (7.22%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Network Team Leader
10 7 (7.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.03%) EDI
2 1 (1.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.25%) PKI
3 4 (4.12%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.09%) CCTV
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 47 (48.45%) Windows
2 26 (26.80%) Windows Server
3 19 (19.59%) Linux
4 16 (16.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (14.43%) Windows 10
6 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (8.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (7.22%) Android
8 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (6.19%) Apple iOS
9 6 (6.19%) CentOS
10 4 (4.12%) Mac OS X
10 4 (4.12%) Windows 8
10 4 (4.12%) Windows XP
11 3 (3.09%) Ubuntu
12 2 (2.06%) Mac OS
13 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (16.49%) Time Management
3 15 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (13.40%) Business Development
5 12 (12.37%) Information Security
6 11 (11.34%) ITIL
7 10 (10.31%) Customer Engagement
7 10 (10.31%) Customer Service
7 10 (10.31%) Presales
7 10 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (10.31%) Software Licensing
8 7 (7.22%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.22%) Open Source
9 5 (5.15%) Analytics
9 5 (5.15%) Migration
9 5 (5.15%) People Management
10 4 (4.12%) Customer Experience
10 4 (4.12%) Innovative Thinking
10 4 (4.12%) Roadmaps
10 4 (4.12%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) Bash
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.15%) Perl
5 3 (3.09%) SQL
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
6 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (23.71%) CCNA
3 19 (19.59%) Degree
4 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
5 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
6 13 (13.40%) CCNP
7 7 (7.22%) MCP
7 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.12%) MCSE
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.09%) JNCIA
10 2 (2.06%) CCIE
10 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.09%) SLA
3 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (38.14%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.49%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (3.09%) vSphere
6 2 (2.06%) Docker
6 2 (2.06%) Firmware
6 2 (2.06%) KVM
6 2 (2.06%) QEMU
6 2 (2.06%) Xen
7 1 (1.03%) NFS
7 1 (1.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) SCCM
2 6 (6.19%) Terraform
3 5 (5.15%) Ansible
3 5 (5.15%) CASB
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.15%) Puppet
3 5 (5.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 5 (5.15%) Stealthwatch
4 3 (3.09%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.03%) Nessus
6 1 (1.03%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.03%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.03%) WSUS
6 1 (1.03%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 45 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 38 (39.18%) Cisco
3 31 (31.96%) VMware
4 19 (19.59%) Juniper
5 18 (18.56%) Fortinet
6 13 (13.40%) Meraki
7 11 (11.34%) Apple
8 10 (10.31%) Adobe
9 9 (9.28%) Citrix
10 7 (7.22%) Dell
11 5 (5.15%) HP
12 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
13 2 (2.06%) Aruba
13 2 (2.06%) CheckPoint
13 2 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (2.06%) Google
13 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
13 2 (2.06%) Veeam
13 2 (2.06%) WatchGuard
14 1 (1.03%) Splunk