WAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 144 135 192
Rank change year-on-year -9 +57 -55
Permanent jobs citing WAN 100 133 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.44% 2.27% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.25% 14.07% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 71 78 70
10th Percentile £35,750 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,875
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 976 945 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.01% 16.12% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 684 536 744
10th Percentile £28,605 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,120 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,813 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for WAN in the Thames Valley

WAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +2 47 £57,500 +15.00% 12
Oxfordshire +15 32 £46,250 -2.63% 8
Buckinghamshire -50 22 £45,000 -18.18% 6
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.00%) Azure
1 30 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (2.00%) SaaS
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Akamai
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.00%) GCP
5 1 (1.00%) GitHub
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.00%) OCI
5 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 57 (57.00%) LAN
2 49 (49.00%) SD-WAN
3 46 (46.00%) Firewall
4 28 (28.00%) Wireless
5 21 (21.00%) DNS
6 17 (17.00%) VPN
7 14 (14.00%) DHCP
8 13 (13.00%) Network Security
8 13 (13.00%) OSPF
8 13 (13.00%) TCP/IP
9 12 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (8.00%) SAN
12 7 (7.00%) VoIP
13 6 (6.00%) BGP
14 5 (5.00%) NAS
14 5 (5.00%) SSL
14 5 (5.00%) VLAN
15 4 (4.00%) MPLS
15 4 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) InfluxDB
1 5 (5.00%) MariaDB
1 5 (5.00%) MySQL
1 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.00%) Banking
2 3 (3.00%) Finance
2 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.00%) Electronics
3 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.00%) Billing
4 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (32.00%) Architect
2 25 (25.00%) Senior
3 21 (21.00%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (16.00%) IP Architect
5 14 (14.00%) Cisco Architect
5 14 (14.00%) Senior Architect
5 14 (14.00%) Senior Cisco Architect
6 13 (13.00%) Network Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Analyst
7 9 (9.00%) Cisco Security Architect
7 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) IT Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) IT Support
7 9 (9.00%) Security Architect
7 9 (9.00%) Senior Security Architect
7 9 (9.00%) Support Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (7.00%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.00%) PKI
3 4 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.00%) CCTV
5 2 (2.00%) Molecular Biology
6 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.00%) Windows
2 19 (19.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (17.00%) Linux
4 15 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 9 (9.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (7.00%) Android
8 6 (6.00%) Apple iOS
8 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (5.00%) CentOS
9 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (4.00%) Mac OS X
10 4 (4.00%) Windows 8
10 4 (4.00%) Windows XP
11 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
11 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.00%) Time Management
2 19 (19.00%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (15.00%) Business Development
3 15 (15.00%) ITIL
4 14 (14.00%) Customer Engagement
4 14 (14.00%) Presales
4 14 (14.00%) Software Licensing
5 12 (12.00%) Customer Service
5 12 (12.00%) Information Security
5 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (9.00%) Analytics
6 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (7.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (7.00%) Open Source
8 6 (6.00%) Migration
9 4 (4.00%) Email Migration
9 4 (4.00%) Network Architecture
9 4 (4.00%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (4.00%) People Management
9 4 (4.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) Bash
2 9 (9.00%) Python
3 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.00%) Perl
5 2 (2.00%) SQL
6 1 (1.00%) Korn
6 1 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (31.00%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (27.00%) CCNA
3 22 (22.00%) Degree
4 19 (19.00%) CCNP
5 18 (18.00%) Security Cleared
6 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (7.00%) MCP
9 4 (4.00%) MCSE
10 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.00%) CCIE
11 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
11 2 (2.00%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.00%) CCSA
12 1 (1.00%) CCSE
12 1 (1.00%) CISSP
12 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (29.00%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (3.00%) vSphere
6 2 (2.00%) Docker
6 2 (2.00%) KVM
6 2 (2.00%) QEMU
6 2 (2.00%) Xen
7 1 (1.00%) Firmware
7 1 (1.00%) NFS
7 1 (1.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Stealthwatch
2 6 (6.00%) SCCM
3 5 (5.00%) Ansible
3 5 (5.00%) CASB
3 5 (5.00%) Puppet
3 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 5 (5.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.00%) Nessus
7 1 (1.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (1.00%) WSUS
7 1 (1.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 47 (47.00%) Cisco
2 42 (42.00%) Microsoft
3 30 (30.00%) VMware
4 21 (21.00%) Fortinet
5 20 (20.00%) Juniper
6 17 (17.00%) Meraki
7 15 (15.00%) Apple
8 14 (14.00%) Adobe
9 10 (10.00%) Citrix
10 7 (7.00%) Dell
11 4 (4.00%) CheckPoint
11 4 (4.00%) HP
12 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
13 2 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (2.00%) Google
13 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
13 2 (2.00%) Snow
13 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
14 1 (1.00%) Veeam
14 1 (1.00%) WatchGuard