WAN Jobs in Kent

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 37 64
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 -36
Permanent jobs citing WAN 32 67 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.07% 6.23% 4.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.08% 19.76% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28 64 62
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 -
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.75% +8.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £49,925
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 advertised in Kent with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 199 339 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 12.88% 31.53% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 155 169 179
10th Percentile £24,350 £25,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +5.19% -3.75%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Kent

WAN
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for WAN in Kent

WAN
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Kent over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Kent

WAN
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Gravesend - 17 £55,000 - 1
West Malling -9 1 £31,000 -40.95%
Sevenoaks - 1 £60,000 - 1
Tonbridge - 1 £28,000 -
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (78.13%) Firewall
2 17 (53.13%) 4G
2 17 (53.13%) 5G
2 17 (53.13%) MPLS
3 14 (43.75%) LAN
4 10 (31.25%) VPN
5 9 (28.13%) DNS
6 7 (21.88%) DHCP
6 7 (21.88%) FTP
6 7 (21.88%) VLAN
7 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
7 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (12.50%) Wireless
8 4 (12.50%) WLAN
9 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 17 (53.13%) Telecoms
2 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (28.13%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (21.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.13%) 1st Line Support
7 1 (3.13%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Lead
7 1 (3.13%) Service Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Support Team Leader
7 1 (3.13%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Driving Licence
1 17 (53.13%) IoT
2 9 (28.13%) ARM Cortex
2 9 (28.13%) Management Information System
3 7 (21.88%) Client/Server
3 7 (21.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) CMDB
4 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) Windows
2 9 (28.13%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.13%) Android
5 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Cybersecurity
1 17 (53.13%) Data Management
2 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 10 (31.25%) ITIL
4 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) Project Management
5 6 (18.75%) Change Control
6 5 (15.63%) Change Management
6 5 (15.63%) Patch Management
6 5 (15.63%) Time Management
7 4 (12.50%) Inventory Management
7 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 1 (3.13%) Antivirus Management
8 1 (3.13%) Creative Thinking
8 1 (3.13%) Customer Experience
8 1 (3.13%) DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Email Management
8 1 (3.13%) Mobile Device Management
8 1 (3.13%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (28.13%) CTC Cleared
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (53.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (28.13%) COSHH
2 9 (28.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) FortiGate
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Cisco
2 17 (53.13%) Darktrace
2 17 (53.13%) HP
2 17 (53.13%) NEC
3 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (28.13%) Mitel
4 9 (28.13%) Ribbon
5 7 (21.88%) Meraki
6 1 (3.13%) Apple
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce