WAN Engineer Jobs in England

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
UK > England

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 870 1136
Rank change year-on-year +67 +266 -270
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 56 25 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.059% 0.030% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.033% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 53 22 49
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -38.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £39,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £40,000 £62,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £37,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.14% -38.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,619 75,210 137,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 91.22% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 65,535 49,495 75,192
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +0.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in England

WAN Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN Engineer in England.

Salary trend for WAN Engineer in England

WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN Engineer in England

WAN Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
London +95 26 £57,500 +47.44% 2
West Midlands +10 23 £27,450 - 9
Midlands -8 23 £27,450 - 9
North of England +22 6 £75,000 -
North West -11 6 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 6 £75,000 -
East of England - 6 £75,000 -
South East -17 2 £56,250 +40.63%
WAN Engineer
UK

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) WAN
2 32 (57.14%) LAN
2 32 (57.14%) SD-WAN
3 24 (42.86%) Presales
3 24 (42.86%) Cisco
3 24 (42.86%) Juniper
4 23 (41.07%) Meraki
5 20 (35.71%) Azure
5 20 (35.71%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (32.14%) Aruba
7 17 (30.36%) Cisco ISE
7 17 (30.36%) Public Cloud
7 17 (30.36%) Sales Enablement
7 17 (30.36%) MPLS
7 17 (30.36%) Fortinet
8 16 (28.57%) IPsec
9 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
10 12 (21.43%) SC Cleared
11 11 (19.64%) Firewall
12 10 (17.86%) PKI
13 9 (16.07%) WLAN
13 9 (16.07%) VPN
14 7 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
15 6 (10.71%) Business Development
15 6 (10.71%) Load Balancing
15 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (10.71%) BGP
16 4 (7.14%) CCNP
16 4 (7.14%) SolarWinds
17 3 (5.36%) Data Centre

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (35.71%) Azure
2 2 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.79%) IaaS
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.79%) PaaS
3 1 (1.79%) Rubrik
3 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (100.00%) WAN
2 32 (57.14%) LAN
2 32 (57.14%) SD-WAN
3 20 (35.71%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (30.36%) Cisco ISE
4 17 (30.36%) MPLS
5 16 (28.57%) IPsec
6 11 (19.64%) Firewall
7 9 (16.07%) VPN
7 9 (16.07%) WLAN
8 6 (10.71%) BGP
9 2 (3.57%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.79%) DHCP
10 1 (1.79%) DNS
10 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.79%) Internet
10 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.79%) OSPF
10 1 (1.79%) PBX
10 1 (1.79%) Wireless
General
1 3 (5.36%) Law
2 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Public Cloud
2 10 (17.86%) PKI
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) FlexPod
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Presales
2 17 (30.36%) Sales Enablement
3 7 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (10.71%) Business Development
4 6 (10.71%) Load Balancing
5 3 (5.36%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (3.57%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.57%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.57%) IT Strategy
6 2 (3.57%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (3.57%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (1.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (1.79%) Bill of Materials
7 1 (1.79%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (1.79%) DevSecOps
7 1 (1.79%) ITIL
7 1 (1.79%) Project Management
7 1 (1.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.14%) CCNP
5 3 (5.36%) CCNA
6 1 (1.79%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
1 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Cisco
1 24 (42.86%) Juniper
2 23 (41.07%) Meraki
3 18 (32.14%) Aruba
4 17 (30.36%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.14%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.57%) HP
6 2 (3.57%) NetApp
7 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.79%) Citrix
7 1 (1.79%) Dell
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.79%) Mitel
7 1 (1.79%) Nokia
7 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.79%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.79%) Snow
7 1 (1.79%) Veeam
7 1 (1.79%) VMware