WAN Job Trends in West End of London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West End of London 2.22% 2.50% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.00% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +13.10% -37.78%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,250 £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £62,559
% change year-on-year +5.56% +7.90% +8.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West End of 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 West End of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West End of London 8.89% 12.50% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - - £38,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +15.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,250 £79,375
90th Percentile - - £85,875
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -3.23%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

WAN job vacancy trend in West End of London

WAN
Salary Trend in West End of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing WAN

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware