WAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 131 179
Rank change year-on-year -6 +48 -16
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1,229 1,257 1,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.88% 2.61% 2.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.28% 13.86% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 885 881 1,304
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £64,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

WAN 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 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
North of England +18 331 £45,000 -2.17% 59
Midlands +7 257 £39,250 -1.88% 29
South East -6 250 £50,000 +11.11% 54
West Midlands +31 199 £37,500 -11.76% 22
South West -6 188 £45,000 +6.51% 24
North West +2 178 £48,500 +3.19% 31
Yorkshire +67 143 £53,750 +19.44% 21
East of England +17 129 £45,000 +7.78% 30
Scotland -66 68 £50,000 +20.48% 10
East Midlands -55 52 £44,750 +19.33% 7
Wales +6 29 £40,250 -5.29% 8
North East -21 27 £40,000 -5.88% 9
Northern Ireland -3 4 £37,500 -6.25% 15
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
WAN
UK

WAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 136 (11.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (10.90%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.87%) IIS
4 12 (0.98%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (0.98%) SharePoint 2013
5 5 (0.41%) Apache
5 5 (0.41%) CMS
5 5 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.081%) nginx
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 103 (8.38%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.16%) Shopify
3 1 (0.081%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.081%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 478 (38.89%) Azure
2 454 (36.94%) Microsoft 365
3 160 (13.02%) AWS
4 145 (11.80%) Entra ID
5 55 (4.48%) GCP
6 54 (4.39%) SaaS
7 50 (4.07%) IaaS
7 50 (4.07%) OneDrive
8 46 (3.74%) PaaS
9 21 (1.71%) Mimecast
10 20 (1.63%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.30%) Nutanix
13 13 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (0.90%) OCI
16 10 (0.81%) Google Workspace
17 9 (0.73%) Serverless
18 7 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 853 (69.41%) LAN
2 502 (40.85%) Firewall
3 350 (28.48%) SD-WAN
4 257 (20.91%) VPN
5 231 (18.80%) DNS
6 202 (16.44%) Wireless
7 186 (15.13%) TCP/IP
8 181 (14.73%) Wi-Fi
9 180 (14.65%) DHCP
10 143 (11.64%) VLAN
11 136 (11.07%) MPLS
12 130 (10.58%) Network Security
13 122 (9.93%) WLAN
14 84 (6.83%) BGP
15 75 (6.10%) OSPF
15 75 (6.10%) SAN
15 75 (6.10%) VoIP
16 56 (4.56%) IPsec
17 54 (4.39%) 5G
18 48 (3.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.71%) MySQL
3 14 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 9 (0.73%) Power BI
6 8 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.41%) InfluxDB
7 5 (0.41%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.081%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.081%) DB2
10 1 (0.081%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.081%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.081%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.081%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (0.81%) Git
1 10 (0.81%) JIRA
2 8 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.33%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.24%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.081%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 376 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 120 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (6.92%) Finance
4 60 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 39 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (3.09%) Retail
7 37 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (2.69%) Law
8 33 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.12%) Electronics
11 22 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.71%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.14%) Games
13 14 (1.14%) Legal
14 13 (1.06%) Police
15 11 (0.90%) Marketing
16 10 (0.81%) Automotive
16 10 (0.81%) Public Sector
17 8 (0.65%) Banking
Job Titles
1 226 (18.39%) Network Engineer
2 193 (15.70%) Senior
3 170 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (11.47%) Analyst
5 116 (9.44%) Support Engineer
6 111 (9.03%) IT Support
7 110 (8.95%) Architect
8 94 (7.65%) IT Engineer
9 89 (7.24%) Lead
10 67 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support
11 60 (4.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 59 (4.80%) Security Architect
12 59 (4.80%) Support Analyst
13 58 (4.72%) Senior Network Engineer
14 56 (4.56%) IT Analyst
15 55 (4.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 54 (4.39%) Senior Architect
17 53 (4.31%) IT Manager
18 51 (4.15%) Cisco Architect
18 51 (4.15%) Senior Cisco Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.81%) HTML
2 9 (0.73%) 802.1X
3 8 (0.65%) LDAP
4 7 (0.57%) Web Services
5 4 (0.33%) pytest
6 3 (0.24%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.24%) EDI
6 3 (0.24%) SAML
6 3 (0.24%) XMPP
7 2 (0.16%) REST
7 2 (0.16%) ServiceStack
7 2 (0.16%) WebRTC
7 2 (0.16%) X-Windows
8 1 (0.081%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.081%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.081%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.081%) React
8 1 (0.081%) RESTful
8 1 (0.081%) RFC 2544
8 1 (0.081%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 196 (15.95%) Data Centre
2 72 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 69 (5.61%) Driving Licence
4 42 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.09%) PKI
6 29 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.28%) Clustering
8 22 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 22 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.71%) IoT
10 18 (1.46%) PMI
11 16 (1.30%) GNSS
12 15 (1.22%) Replication
13 14 (1.14%) Cloud Native
13 14 (1.14%) NHS
13 14 (1.14%) Operational Technology
14 13 (1.06%) Cyberattack
15 12 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
16 11 (0.90%) FPGA
16 11 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 513 (41.74%) Windows
2 292 (23.76%) Windows Server
3 151 (12.29%) Windows 10
4 108 (8.79%) Linux
5 72 (5.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 64 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 63 (5.13%) Android
8 44 (3.58%) Apple iOS
9 36 (2.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 29 (2.36%) Mac OS
11 19 (1.55%) Windows 7
12 18 (1.46%) VMS
12 18 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.90%) CentOS
13 11 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.57%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.49%) Unix
15 6 (0.49%) VyOS
16 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
2 215 (17.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 206 (16.76%) ITIL
4 185 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
5 160 (13.02%) Customer Service
6 114 (9.28%) Project Delivery
7 100 (8.14%) Mentoring
8 95 (7.73%) Time Management
9 93 (7.57%) Project Management
9 93 (7.57%) Service Delivery
10 76 (6.18%) Presales
11 74 (6.02%) Computer Science
12 72 (5.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 71 (5.78%) Customer Engagement
14 64 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (5.04%) Service Management
16 61 (4.96%) Change Management
17 59 (4.80%) Roadmaps
18 57 (4.64%) Information Security
19 54 (4.39%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 110 (8.95%) PowerShell
2 83 (6.75%) SQL
3 44 (3.58%) Python
4 28 (2.28%) Bash
5 22 (1.79%) Perl
6 16 (1.30%) C++
7 15 (1.22%) MATLAB
8 10 (0.81%) PHP
9 8 (0.65%) C
9 8 (0.65%) Tcl
9 8 (0.65%) VB
10 6 (0.49%) Java
11 4 (0.33%) Bicep
12 3 (0.24%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.16%) C#
13 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.081%) Korn
14 1 (0.081%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.081%) VBA
Qualifications
1 259 (21.07%) Cisco Certification
2 229 (18.63%) Degree
3 168 (13.67%) CCNA
4 154 (12.53%) Security Cleared
5 150 (12.21%) CCNP
6 94 (7.65%) SC Cleared
7 57 (4.64%) CCIE
8 51 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 49 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (3.25%) Azure Certification
10 40 (3.25%) CISSP
11 32 (2.60%) DV Cleared
12 31 (2.52%) DBS Check
13 29 (2.36%) MCSE
14 24 (1.95%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.95%) PMI Certification
15 22 (1.79%) CCDP
15 22 (1.79%) CISM
15 22 (1.79%) JNCIA
16 20 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.32%) SLA
2 38 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 37 (3.01%) GDPR
4 29 (2.36%) NIST
5 21 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.22%) PMO
7 8 (0.65%) QA
8 6 (0.49%) COSHH
9 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.24%) JTAG
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.081%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.081%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.081%) SOC 2
System Software
1 438 (35.64%) Active Directory
2 240 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 167 (13.59%) Hyper-V
4 47 (3.82%) vSphere
5 40 (3.25%) VMware NSX
6 27 (2.20%) Firmware
7 26 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (2.03%) Docker
9 18 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.06%) XenDesktop
11 11 (0.90%) XenApp
12 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
14 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.33%) NFS
15 4 (0.33%) pfSense
15 4 (0.33%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 154 (12.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (4.96%) SCCM
3 47 (3.82%) FortiGate
4 36 (2.93%) Stealthwatch
4 36 (2.93%) Terraform
5 34 (2.77%) Ansible
6 27 (2.20%) Kubernetes
7 25 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (2.03%) WSUS
8 20 (1.63%) vCenter Server
9 15 (1.22%) CASB
10 14 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (1.14%) VxRail
11 12 (0.98%) Autotask
12 11 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
13 10 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.57%) Puppet
15 6 (0.49%) Opsgenie
15 6 (0.49%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 547 (44.51%) Microsoft
2 420 (34.17%) Cisco
3 345 (28.07%) VMware
4 148 (12.04%) Meraki
5 106 (8.62%) Juniper
6 101 (8.22%) Fortinet
7 83 (6.75%) Apple
8 79 (6.43%) HP
9 63 (5.13%) Veeam
10 62 (5.04%) Palo Alto
11 56 (4.56%) Dell
12 53 (4.31%) Adobe
13 47 (3.82%) Citrix
14 42 (3.42%) Aruba
15 38 (3.09%) SolarWinds
16 36 (2.93%) CheckPoint
17 26 (2.12%) Google
17 26 (2.12%) Ruckus Wireless
18 22 (1.79%) NetApp
18 22 (1.79%) Sophos