WAN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 184 259
Rank change year-on-year +53 +75 -58
Permanent jobs citing WAN 821 858 930
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.43% 1.96% 1.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.49% 17.35% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 650 696 806
10th Percentile £31,188 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +6.80% -6.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,299 4,946 7,253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.68% 11.32% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,445 3,636 4,875
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAN.

WAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WAN over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

WAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 104 (12.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.19%) IIS
4 4 (0.49%) SAS
4 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.24%) Apache
6 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 69 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.37%) SPSS
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 352 (42.87%) Azure
2 271 (33.01%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (12.30%) AWS
4 65 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 34 (4.14%) GCP
6 29 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
7 25 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.05%) IaaS
7 25 (3.05%) SaaS
8 20 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 20 (2.44%) PaaS
9 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (1.83%) OneDrive
11 12 (1.46%) Mimecast
12 8 (0.97%) Rubrik
13 7 (0.85%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.61%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (0.61%) Datadog
14 5 (0.61%) GitHub
15 4 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 603 (73.45%) LAN
2 384 (46.77%) Firewall
3 326 (39.71%) SD-WAN
4 216 (26.31%) VPN
5 190 (23.14%) Wi-Fi
6 180 (21.92%) DNS
7 168 (20.46%) Wireless
8 152 (18.51%) DHCP
9 135 (16.44%) MPLS
10 127 (15.47%) TCP/IP
11 122 (14.86%) Network Security
12 110 (13.40%) BGP
13 108 (13.15%) VLAN
14 98 (11.94%) WLAN
15 85 (10.35%) OSPF
16 75 (9.14%) SAN
17 70 (8.53%) Internet
18 43 (5.24%) VoIP
19 33 (4.02%) Cisco ISE
20 32 (3.90%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.73%) DB2
5 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.37%) Big Data
6 3 (0.37%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.24%) Power BI
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.12%) MySQL
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.49%) MSBuild
2 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
3 3 (0.37%) JIRA
4 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
General
1 236 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 96 (11.69%) Finance
3 69 (8.40%) Retail
4 48 (5.85%) Telecoms
5 41 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.29%) Legal
7 22 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.83%) Banking
11 11 (1.34%) Law
12 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.97%) Marketing
14 6 (0.73%) French Language
14 6 (0.73%) German Language
14 6 (0.73%) Italian Language
14 6 (0.73%) Portuguese Language
14 6 (0.73%) Spanish Language
14 6 (0.73%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 165 (20.10%) Network Engineer
2 150 (18.27%) Senior
3 135 (16.44%) Architect
4 115 (14.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 95 (11.57%) Analyst
6 64 (7.80%) Support Engineer
7 53 (6.46%) Security Architect
8 51 (6.21%) Lead
9 49 (5.97%) IT Engineer
10 45 (5.48%) Network Analyst
11 42 (5.12%) Senior Network Engineer
12 38 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
13 37 (4.51%) Senior Architect
14 35 (4.26%) Operations Analyst
15 33 (4.02%) Consultant
15 33 (4.02%) IT Support
16 31 (3.78%) 3rd Line Support
16 31 (3.78%) Infrastructure Architect
16 31 (3.78%) Network Manager
16 31 (3.78%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.97%) HTML
2 7 (0.85%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.61%) XMPP
4 4 (0.49%) .NET
4 4 (0.49%) Web Services
4 4 (0.49%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (0.24%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.24%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.24%) LDAP
5 2 (0.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.24%) Middleware
6 1 (0.12%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.12%) JSON
6 1 (0.12%) OAuth
6 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.12%) TAPI
Miscellaneous
1 146 (17.78%) Data Centre
2 77 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.60%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 28 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.68%) Driving Licence
7 18 (2.19%) Client/Server
8 16 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.95%) IoT
9 14 (1.71%) PKI
10 13 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
11 12 (1.46%) PMI
11 12 (1.46%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.10%) GNSS
13 7 (0.85%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (0.73%) Replication
15 5 (0.61%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 279 (33.98%) Windows
2 142 (17.30%) Windows Server
3 89 (10.84%) Linux
4 55 (6.70%) Windows 10
5 37 (4.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (4.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (4.26%) Ubuntu
6 35 (4.26%) VMS
7 27 (3.29%) Android
7 27 (3.29%) Apple iOS
8 18 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (1.22%) CentOS
10 9 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (1.10%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.61%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.61%) Windows XP
14 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.49%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 114 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
3 105 (12.79%) Agile
4 104 (12.67%) Presales
5 88 (10.72%) Project Management
6 87 (10.60%) Customer Service
7 82 (9.99%) ITIL
8 80 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (9.14%) Application Security
10 74 (9.01%) Information Security
11 68 (8.28%) Mentoring
12 57 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 52 (6.33%) Time Management
14 45 (5.48%) Project Delivery
15 44 (5.36%) CI/CD
15 44 (5.36%) Roadmaps
15 44 (5.36%) Service Delivery
16 40 (4.87%) DevOps
16 40 (4.87%) SIEM
17 39 (4.75%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (8.16%) PowerShell
2 49 (5.97%) Python
3 18 (2.19%) Bash
4 12 (1.46%) SQL
5 5 (0.61%) C++
5 5 (0.61%) Perl
6 3 (0.37%) Java
7 2 (0.24%) Korn
7 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.24%) PHP
8 1 (0.12%) C#
8 1 (0.12%) Delphi
8 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 234 (28.50%) Cisco Certification
2 141 (17.17%) CCNA
3 125 (15.23%) CCNP
4 108 (13.15%) Degree
5 77 (9.38%) Security Cleared
6 56 (6.82%) CISSP
7 54 (6.58%) CCIE
8 49 (5.97%) Azure Certification
9 48 (5.85%) DV Cleared
10 47 (5.72%) CCSP
11 46 (5.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 40 (4.87%) CCDP
13 39 (4.75%) AWS Certification
14 37 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (4.02%) CCSK
15 33 (4.02%) CISM
16 25 (3.05%) SC Cleared
17 21 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
18 19 (2.31%) MCITP
19 18 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.46%) NIST
2 45 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (5.12%) SLA
4 21 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.61%) PMO
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.37%) GDPR
8 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) QA
System Software
1 269 (32.76%) Active Directory
2 135 (16.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (12.91%) Hyper-V
4 41 (4.99%) Docker
5 30 (3.65%) vSphere
6 28 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (1.34%) NFS
10 4 (0.49%) Firmware
11 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.24%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 69 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (8.16%) Ansible
3 52 (6.33%) Terraform
4 38 (4.63%) WSUS
5 37 (4.51%) Kubernetes
5 37 (4.51%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (4.26%) FortiGate
7 19 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (2.07%) SCCM
9 15 (1.83%) CASB
9 15 (1.83%) Stealthwatch
10 13 (1.58%) Nmap
11 12 (1.46%) Opsgenie
11 12 (1.46%) VxRail
11 12 (1.46%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.61%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.61%) PaperCut
12 5 (0.61%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.49%) BMC PATROL
14 3 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 363 (44.21%) Cisco
2 343 (41.78%) Microsoft
3 191 (23.26%) VMware
4 161 (19.61%) Meraki
5 93 (11.33%) Fortinet
6 73 (8.89%) Juniper
7 56 (6.82%) Aruba
8 53 (6.46%) Palo Alto
9 51 (6.21%) HP
10 40 (4.87%) SolarWinds
11 37 (4.51%) Dell
12 36 (4.38%) Apple
13 33 (4.02%) Citrix
13 33 (4.02%) Veeam
14 30 (3.65%) Adobe
15 24 (2.92%) NetApp
16 22 (2.68%) Ruckus Wireless
17 18 (2.19%) Rapid7
18 17 (2.07%) CheckPoint
19 15 (1.83%) Red Hat