WAAS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WAAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 554 558
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +203
Permanent jobs citing WAAS 3 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.014% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.040% 0.10% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60,500
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.88%
75th Percentile - - £63,750
90th Percentile - - £64,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -21.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

WAAS 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 7,537 4,929 5,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.96% 13.64% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,803 2,460 4,360
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,722 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,125 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

WAAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WAAS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

WAAS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WAAS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WAAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WAAS

WAAS
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 WAAS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
North East - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
WAAS
UK

WAAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 3 (100.00%) Motorola
1 3 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds