DWDM Jobs in the UK excluding London

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DWDM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DWDM 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 567 754 736
Rank change year-on-year +187 -18 +118
Permanent jobs citing DWDM 12 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.011% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.081% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £61,250 £43,400 -
25th Percentile £73,750 - £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £84,875 £80,000 £51,000
90th Percentile £87,350 - £56,400
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,250 £51,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +57.77% -6.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DWDM 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,144 9,866 10,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.00% 13.17% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,355 7,111 4,601
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

DWDM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DWDM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DWDM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DWDM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DWDM within the UK excluding London 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
Yorkshire +61 6 £72,500 -
North of England +43 6 £72,500 - 1
South East +81 5 £80,000 - 7
East of England +50 1 £80,000 -
DWDM
UK

DWDM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) WAN
2 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) LAN
3 9 (75.00%) VPN
4 7 (58.33%) DNS
4 7 (58.33%) Network Security
5 6 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (50.00%) MPLS
5 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (25.00%) DMZ
6 3 (25.00%) Internet
6 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (16.67%) BGP
7 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
7 2 (16.67%) GPON
7 2 (16.67%) OSPF
7 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (8.33%) GLBP
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (50.00%) Runbook
3 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
6 1 (8.33%) Project Management
6 1 (8.33%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (66.67%) CCNP
3 7 (58.33%) CCNA
3 7 (58.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (58.33%) Degree
4 6 (50.00%) JNCIA
4 6 (50.00%) JNCIS
5 1 (8.33%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Arista
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Nokia
2 1 (8.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) VMware