WAN Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 565 661
Rank change year-on-year +154 +96 +164
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 2 24 10
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.071% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.074% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 3
10th Percentile £62,750 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £70,625 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% +43.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £98,125 £61,250 £46,250
90th Percentile £105,250 £63,750 £50,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +46.43% -36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

WAN Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WAN Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WAN Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WAN Engineer.

WAN Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WAN Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

WAN Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds