WAN Jobs in the South East

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 167 146 192
Rank change year-on-year -21 +46 -53
Permanent jobs citing WAN 266 317 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.53% 2.25% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.57% 12.82% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 221 221 294
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,780 2,473 3,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.97% 17.55% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 1,442 1,868
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the South East.

Salary trend for WAN in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for WAN in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South East 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
Thames Valley -9 100 £50,000 - 26
Hampshire -26 68 £45,000 - 8
Berkshire +2 47 £57,500 +15.00% 12
Surrey -4 39 £50,000 +23.46% 1
Oxfordshire +15 32 £46,250 -2.63% 8
Kent -39 32 £48,500 +19.75% 6
Buckinghamshire -50 22 £45,000 -18.18% 6
East Sussex +20 13 £55,000 +22.22% 1
West Sussex +28 12 £40,000 -8.05% 1
Home Counties - 1 £90,000 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (10.90%) SharePoint
2 26 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.88%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Site Server
Applications
1 18 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.96%) Azure
2 87 (32.71%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (12.78%) Entra ID
4 32 (12.03%) AWS
5 12 (4.51%) SaaS
6 10 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.01%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.88%) IaaS
9 4 (1.50%) PaaS
10 3 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.38%) GCP
12 1 (0.38%) GitHub
12 1 (0.38%) OpenDNS
12 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 174 (65.41%) LAN
2 123 (46.24%) Firewall
3 69 (25.94%) SD-WAN
4 56 (21.05%) Wireless
5 52 (19.55%) VPN
6 43 (16.17%) DNS
7 36 (13.53%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (12.78%) MPLS
9 33 (12.41%) DHCP
9 33 (12.41%) TCP/IP
10 28 (10.53%) BGP
10 28 (10.53%) VLAN
11 24 (9.02%) Network Security
12 21 (7.89%) VoIP
13 18 (6.77%) 4G
13 18 (6.77%) OSPF
14 17 (6.39%) 5G
15 16 (6.02%) Cisco Firepower
15 16 (6.02%) SSL
16 15 (5.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.88%) InfluxDB
3 5 (1.88%) MariaDB
3 5 (1.88%) MySQL
3 5 (1.88%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.88%) Git
3 4 (1.50%) MSBuild
3 4 (1.50%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 95 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.15%) Telecoms
3 21 (7.89%) Finance
4 9 (3.38%) Legal
4 9 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.50%) Games
6 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.13%) Advertising
7 3 (1.13%) Banking
7 3 (1.13%) Electronics
7 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Law
8 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.38%) Automotive
9 1 (0.38%) Billing
9 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.38%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 66 (24.81%) Network Engineer
2 50 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (14.66%) Architect
4 38 (14.29%) Senior
5 22 (8.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 21 (7.89%) Support Engineer
7 19 (7.14%) IT Engineer
8 18 (6.77%) Analyst
9 16 (6.02%) IP Architect
9 16 (6.02%) IT Support
9 16 (6.02%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (5.64%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (5.26%) Cisco Architect
11 14 (5.26%) Senior Architect
11 14 (5.26%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 12 (4.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 11 (4.14%) Lead
13 11 (4.14%) Project Engineer
13 11 (4.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.50%) .NET
2 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.38%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.05%) Data Centre
2 44 (16.54%) Driving Licence
3 20 (7.52%) Management Information System
4 19 (7.14%) IoT
5 17 (6.39%) PKI
6 11 (4.14%) Client/Server
7 10 (3.76%) NHS
8 9 (3.38%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.88%) PMI
11 5 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.50%) Clustering
12 4 (1.50%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.75%) CCTV
13 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.75%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 114 (42.86%) Windows
2 58 (21.80%) Windows Server
3 27 (10.15%) Linux
3 27 (10.15%) Windows 10
4 15 (5.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (4.89%) Android
6 12 (4.51%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.63%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.26%) Windows 8
8 6 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.88%) CentOS
9 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.50%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.50%) Windows XP
11 3 (1.13%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (19.55%) Cybersecurity
3 45 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.16%) Customer Service
4 35 (13.16%) Presales
5 29 (10.90%) Time Management
6 28 (10.53%) ITIL
7 20 (7.52%) Information Security
8 19 (7.14%) Data Management
8 19 (7.14%) Project Management
9 18 (6.77%) Mentoring
10 16 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (5.64%) Analytics
11 15 (5.64%) Business Development
11 15 (5.64%) Service Delivery
12 14 (5.26%) Customer Engagement
12 14 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
12 14 (5.26%) Network Design
12 14 (5.26%) Software Licensing
13 12 (4.51%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.77%) Python
2 14 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.76%) Bash
4 6 (2.26%) SQL
5 5 (1.88%) Perl
6 1 (0.38%) Korn
6 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (17.29%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (13.53%) Degree
2 36 (13.53%) Security Cleared
3 34 (12.78%) CCNA
4 23 (8.65%) CCNP
4 23 (8.65%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.14%) DBS Check
7 10 (3.76%) CCIE
7 10 (3.76%) MCP
8 9 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.38%) CTC Cleared
9 8 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.01%) MCSE
10 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.88%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.13%) JNCIA
12 3 (1.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (7.89%) GDPR
3 9 (3.38%) COSHH
4 6 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (31.20%) Active Directory
2 68 (25.56%) Hyper-V
3 45 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.51%) vSphere
5 6 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.75%) Docker
7 2 (0.75%) KVM
7 2 (0.75%) QEMU
7 2 (0.75%) Xen
8 1 (0.38%) Firmware
8 1 (0.38%) NFS
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 39 (14.66%) FortiGate
2 17 (6.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.76%) Ansible
4 9 (3.38%) Stealthwatch
4 9 (3.38%) vCenter Server
5 6 (2.26%) Endace
5 6 (2.26%) SCCM
5 6 (2.26%) Terraform
5 6 (2.26%) VxRail
6 5 (1.88%) CASB
6 5 (1.88%) Puppet
6 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 3 (1.13%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.38%) Nessus
9 1 (0.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.38%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 113 (42.48%) Cisco
2 109 (40.98%) Microsoft
3 79 (29.70%) VMware
4 50 (18.80%) Juniper
5 33 (12.41%) HP
6 29 (10.90%) Fortinet
7 24 (9.02%) Meraki
8 22 (8.27%) Aruba
9 17 (6.39%) Darktrace
9 17 (6.39%) NEC
10 16 (6.02%) Apple
11 14 (5.26%) Adobe
11 14 (5.26%) Citrix
11 14 (5.26%) Mitel
12 13 (4.89%) Dell
12 13 (4.89%) Draytek
13 10 (3.76%) Palo Alto
14 9 (3.38%) Ribbon
15 7 (2.63%) F5
16 5 (1.88%) BT