WAN Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary in the UK excluding London is £27,400 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 736 749 807
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 21 12 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.020% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.022% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 41
10th Percentile £26,565 £29,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £26,700 £31,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,400 £36,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -33.64% -
75th Percentile £56,563 £40,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £46,250 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% -39.13% +2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in the UK excluding London

WAN Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for WAN Engineer in the UK excluding London

WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN Engineer in the UK excluding London

WAN Engineer
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 WAN Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
West Midlands +23 17 £27,400 - 3
Midlands +1 17 £27,400 - 3
South East +1 3 £62,500 +56.25% 1
North of England +51 2 £75,000 -
North West +11 2 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £75,000 -
East of England - 2 £75,000 -
WAN Engineer
UK

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, WAN Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) WAN
2 18 (85.71%) Juniper
3 14 (66.67%) MPLS
3 14 (66.67%) IPsec
4 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
5 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) VPN
6 6 (28.57%) PKI
7 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
7 5 (23.81%) BGP
7 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
8 4 (19.05%) Firewall
9 3 (14.29%) LAN
9 3 (14.29%) WLAN
10 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
10 2 (9.52%) Business Development
10 2 (9.52%) Presales
11 1 (4.76%) F5
11 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
11 1 (4.76%) Network Monitoring
11 1 (4.76%) Meraki
11 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
11 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
11 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
11 1 (4.76%) ITIL
11 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
11 1 (4.76%) Cisco
11 1 (4.76%) CCNP

WAN Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) WAN
2 14 (66.67%) IPsec
2 14 (66.67%) MPLS
3 6 (28.57%) VPN
4 5 (23.81%) BGP
4 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
5 4 (19.05%) Firewall
6 3 (14.29%) LAN
6 3 (14.29%) WLAN
7 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
2 2 (9.52%) Business Development
2 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (9.52%) Presales
3 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL
3 1 (4.76%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (4.76%) Project Management
3 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) JNCIA
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Juniper
2 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.76%) Meraki
2 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.76%) Snow
2 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds