WAN Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WAN Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAN Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 762 728
Rank change year-on-year +179 -34 +97
Permanent jobs citing WAN Optimisation 2 1 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.001% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.002% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 19
10th Percentile - - £35,600
25th Percentile - - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +88.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile - - £49,375
90th Percentile - - £59,200
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +72.04% +32.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,325 59,458 57,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.91% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,834 41,124 29,354
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,128 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

WAN Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK excluding London

WAN Optimisation
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 Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
East of England +42 1 £80,000 -
Scotland - 1 - - 2
WAN Optimisation
UK

WAN Optimisation
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) 802.11
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) DWDM
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GLBP
2 1 (50.00%) IGRP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware