WAN Jobs in the South West

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 140 144
Rank change year-on-year +34 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing WAN 234 137 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.53% 2.02% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.96% 10.60% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 165 102 96
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,725 £23,313
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,813 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +4.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £51,750 £50,000 £51,500
90th Percentile £60,918 £60,000 £55,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year +4.40% -8.54% +3.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,234 1,292 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.34% 19.06% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 920 553 715
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the South West

WAN
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for WAN in the South West

WAN
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the South West over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Devon +24 88 £49,000 +37.06% 9
Wiltshire +28 49 £50,500 +17.44% 8
Gloucestershire +9 47 £48,000 +28.00% 3
Dorset -27 24 £37,500 -11.24% 1
Bristol -10 14 £38,250 -30.45% 9
Cornwall -11 8 £30,000 -6.25% 1
Somerset +2 3 £57,500 +30.68% 3
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 52 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 31 (13.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.13%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (5.13%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (39.32%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (35.90%) Azure
3 33 (14.10%) Entra ID
4 28 (11.97%) AWS
5 18 (7.69%) PaaS
6 17 (7.26%) GCP
6 17 (7.26%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.84%) IaaS
8 15 (6.41%) OneDrive
9 14 (5.98%) SaaS
10 6 (2.56%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.85%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.85%) Serverless
12 2 (0.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 163 (69.66%) LAN
2 105 (44.87%) Firewall
3 87 (37.18%) SD-WAN
4 48 (20.51%) DNS
5 45 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (18.38%) VPN
7 36 (15.38%) 5G
8 30 (12.82%) DHCP
9 24 (10.26%) VLAN
10 21 (8.97%) Wireless
11 20 (8.55%) Network Security
12 18 (7.69%) TCP/IP
13 15 (6.41%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (5.98%) MPLS
14 14 (5.98%) SAN
15 13 (5.56%) WLAN
16 11 (4.70%) IPsec
17 10 (4.27%) BGP
17 10 (4.27%) Software-Defined Networking
18 9 (3.85%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 3 (1.28%) LabVIEW
2 2 (0.85%) Git
General
1 69 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.83%) Aerospace
5 21 (8.97%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (8.12%) Electronics
7 15 (6.41%) Manufacturing
8 13 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.56%) Marketing
9 6 (2.56%) Military
9 6 (2.56%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Finance
10 3 (1.28%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Police
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (23.50%) Senior
2 43 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (18.38%) Network Engineer
3 41 (17.52%) Support Engineer
4 38 (16.24%) Senior Network Engineer
5 27 (11.54%) IT Engineer
6 22 (9.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 21 (8.97%) IT Support
8 20 (8.55%) Lead
9 19 (8.12%) 3rd Line Support
10 18 (7.69%) Network Manager
11 17 (7.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 17 (7.26%) IT Support Engineer
11 17 (7.26%) RF Engineer
11 17 (7.26%) Technical Leader
12 14 (5.98%) Analyst
12 14 (5.98%) GNSS Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (4.70%) Project Leader
14 11 (4.70%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.14%) LDAP
2 2 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.85%) Node.js
2 2 (0.85%) React
2 2 (0.85%) RESTful
2 2 (0.85%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.40%) Data Centre
2 21 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.69%) GNSS
4 15 (6.41%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.70%) Fat Client
5 11 (4.70%) FPGA
5 11 (4.70%) Thin Client
6 8 (3.42%) MicroBlaze
6 8 (3.42%) Robotics
6 8 (3.42%) VHDL
7 7 (2.99%) CCTV
8 5 (2.14%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.28%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Clustering
10 2 (0.85%) CMDB
10 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (41.88%) Windows
2 56 (23.93%) Windows Server
3 25 (10.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 24 (10.26%) Windows 10
5 22 (9.40%) Linux
6 17 (7.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (4.27%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.71%) Unix
8 4 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.08%) ITIL
1 54 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (20.51%) Project Delivery
3 42 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 36 (15.38%) B2B
5 36 (15.38%) Test Assurance
5 36 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 34 (14.53%) Service Delivery
7 28 (11.97%) Computer Science
8 24 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (9.40%) Customer Service
9 22 (9.40%) Project Management
10 21 (8.97%) Time Management
11 20 (8.55%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (8.12%) Agile
12 19 (8.12%) Creative Thinking
12 19 (8.12%) Defect Tracking
12 19 (8.12%) Requirements Analysis
13 17 (7.26%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.26%) SQL
3 16 (6.84%) C++
4 14 (5.98%) MATLAB
5 8 (3.42%) C
5 8 (3.42%) Perl
5 8 (3.42%) Tcl
5 8 (3.42%) VB
6 5 (2.14%) Python
7 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.85%) C#
9 1 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 45 (19.23%) Degree
3 37 (15.81%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.56%) A+ Certification
6 10 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.85%) CCNP
7 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.85%) MCSE
7 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.42%) CCIE
9 7 (2.99%) MCITP
10 5 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.14%) PMI Certification
10 5 (2.14%) PMP
10 5 (2.14%) RHCE
10 5 (2.14%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.71%) CCDP
11 4 (1.71%) CCNA
11 4 (1.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) PMO
1 11 (4.70%) SLA
2 3 (1.28%) JTAG
3 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 79 (33.76%) Active Directory
2 60 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (14.96%) Hyper-V
4 16 (6.84%) vSphere
5 11 (4.70%) XenDesktop
6 9 (3.85%) VMware NSX
7 8 (3.42%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (3.42%) Firmware
7 8 (3.42%) XenApp
8 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.71%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (1.28%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.85%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (14.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (9.83%) SCCM
3 19 (8.12%) WSUS
4 8 (3.42%) McAfee ePO
4 8 (3.42%) SCVMM
5 5 (2.14%) Nagios
5 5 (2.14%) OfficeScan
5 5 (2.14%) Rancher
6 4 (1.71%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.85%) Terraform
7 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (32.91%) Cisco
2 76 (32.48%) VMware
3 72 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.26%) Citrix
5 14 (5.98%) HP
6 13 (5.56%) Dell
6 13 (5.56%) Google
7 12 (5.13%) Veeam
8 11 (4.70%) Symantec
9 9 (3.85%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.42%) Altera
10 8 (3.42%) CheckPoint
10 8 (3.42%) Green Hills
10 8 (3.42%) McAfee
10 8 (3.42%) Motorola
10 8 (3.42%) Xilinx
11 7 (2.99%) Meraki
12 5 (2.14%) Alcatel-Lucent
12 5 (2.14%) Centreon
13 4 (1.71%) ServiceNow