WAN Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 136 180
Rank change year-on-year -79 +44 +94
Permanent jobs citing WAN 243 800 839
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 2.37% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.73% 15.26% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 186 625 676
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,650
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67,188 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,919 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,142 5,244 4,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.13% 15.52% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,640 3,390 3,509
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £46,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -4.76%

WAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

WAN
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

WAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 42 (17.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Acrobat
2 2 (0.82%) Blender
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 138 (56.79%) Azure
2 85 (34.98%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (19.34%) AWS
4 32 (13.17%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (4.12%) AWS Direct Connect
6 10 (4.12%) GitHub
7 9 (3.70%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.47%) Route 53
9 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.06%) IaaS
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.65%) GCP
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.65%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.23%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.23%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 157 (64.61%) LAN
2 126 (51.85%) Firewall
3 87 (35.80%) SD-WAN
4 84 (34.57%) VPN
5 48 (19.75%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (18.93%) Wireless
7 38 (15.64%) DNS
8 35 (14.40%) OSPF
9 34 (13.99%) BGP
9 34 (13.99%) TCP/IP
10 32 (13.17%) WLAN
11 31 (12.76%) DHCP
12 29 (11.93%) Network Security
13 28 (11.52%) MPLS
14 23 (9.47%) VLAN
15 20 (8.23%) 5G
15 20 (8.23%) IPsec
16 17 (7.00%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (7.00%) Internet
17 11 (4.53%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.23%) Power BI
3 2 (0.82%) EDMS
3 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.82%) QGIS
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.41%) DB2
4 1 (0.41%) MS Access
4 1 (0.41%) MySQL
4 1 (0.41%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 11 (4.53%) Git
2 8 (3.29%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.65%) Spinnaker
4 4 (1.65%) Subversion
5 3 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 63 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.52%) Finance
3 25 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.76%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.53%) Marketing
7 9 (3.70%) Automotive
8 8 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.29%) Retail
9 6 (2.47%) Banking
9 6 (2.47%) Local Government
9 6 (2.47%) Police
9 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Legal
12 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
13 2 (0.82%) Military
13 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (21.81%) Network Engineer
2 36 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (13.58%) Support Engineer
4 31 (12.76%) Senior
5 28 (11.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 26 (10.70%) 3rd Line Support
6 26 (10.70%) Lead
7 22 (9.05%) Analyst
8 18 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 16 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (6.17%) Architect
11 14 (5.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 14 (5.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (5.76%) IT Support
11 14 (5.76%) Support Analyst
12 13 (5.35%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (4.94%) Network Architect
13 12 (4.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (4.12%) Consultant
14 10 (4.12%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.94%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.65%) HTML
2 4 (1.65%) SOAP
2 4 (1.65%) XML
2 4 (1.65%) XSLT
3 2 (0.82%) gRPC
3 2 (0.82%) LDAP
3 2 (0.82%) Middleware
3 2 (0.82%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) .NET
4 1 (0.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.23%) Data Centre
2 29 (11.93%) Onboarding
3 16 (6.58%) Self-Driving Car
4 15 (6.17%) GNSS
4 15 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (6.17%) Video Conferencing
5 14 (5.76%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.35%) Driving Licence
7 9 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.29%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.88%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (2.47%) IoT
10 6 (2.47%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.06%) NHS
11 5 (2.06%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.65%) FPGA
12 4 (1.65%) MicroBlaze
12 4 (1.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 110 (45.27%) Windows
2 59 (24.28%) Windows Server
3 39 (16.05%) Linux
4 27 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (8.64%) Windows 10
6 20 (8.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (6.17%) Apple iOS
8 11 (4.53%) Mac OS
9 8 (3.29%) Unix
10 5 (2.06%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.23%) Android
11 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.82%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (18.11%) ITIL
4 38 (15.64%) Mentoring
5 37 (15.23%) Customer Service
6 35 (14.40%) Change Management
7 27 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (9.88%) Network Design
9 23 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (9.47%) Infrastructure Management
10 21 (8.64%) Migration
11 20 (8.23%) Cloud Security
12 18 (7.41%) B2B
12 18 (7.41%) Business Continuity
12 18 (7.41%) Problem Management
12 18 (7.41%) Roadmaps
13 17 (7.00%) Network Management
14 16 (6.58%) Network Architecture
14 16 (6.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.40%) PowerShell
2 34 (13.99%) Python
3 16 (6.58%) C
3 16 (6.58%) C++
4 12 (4.94%) SQL
5 9 (3.70%) Perl
6 8 (3.29%) Bash
7 6 (2.47%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.65%) Jython
9 2 (0.82%) Java
9 2 (0.82%) Progress 4GL
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) RPG
10 1 (0.41%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 41 (16.87%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (11.93%) Degree
3 25 (10.29%) CCNP
4 23 (9.47%) CCNA
5 18 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (6.17%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.53%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.29%) CCIE
10 5 (2.06%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.06%) CISSP
11 4 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.65%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.82%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) SLA
2 8 (3.29%) PMO
3 6 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.65%) GDPR
5 3 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.23%) NIST
5 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 100 (41.15%) Active Directory
2 38 (15.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (6.58%) Firmware
3 16 (6.58%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.76%) XenApp
5 11 (4.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.06%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.65%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.82%) Docker
10 2 (0.82%) KVM
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.82%) NFS
10 2 (0.82%) SRDF
10 2 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.82%) Xen
11 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (18.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (7.82%) Ansible
2 19 (7.82%) Terraform
3 6 (2.47%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.65%) ZENworks
5 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.23%) Puppet
5 3 (1.23%) SCCM
5 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.82%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.41%) Autotask
7 1 (0.41%) Avamar
7 1 (0.41%) CASB
7 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 108 (44.44%) Cisco
2 103 (42.39%) Microsoft
3 54 (22.22%) VMware
4 48 (19.75%) Meraki
5 35 (14.40%) CheckPoint
6 31 (12.76%) Fortinet
7 28 (11.52%) Citrix
8 26 (10.70%) Palo Alto
9 24 (9.88%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.58%) Juniper
11 15 (6.17%) Aruba
12 14 (5.76%) SonicWALL
13 13 (5.35%) Apple
14 12 (4.94%) Dynatrace
14 12 (4.94%) F5
15 8 (3.29%) Infoblox
15 8 (3.29%) Mellanox
15 8 (3.29%) NVIDIA
16 7 (2.88%) Dell
16 7 (2.88%) Google