WAN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 133 172 276
Rank change year-on-year +39 +104 -55
Permanent jobs citing WAN 800 855 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.33% 2.15% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.37% 19.00% 12.09%
Number of salaries quoted 610 648 866
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,025 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +3.63%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,206 4,499 8,321
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.15% 11.31% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,330 3,315 5,130
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WAN.

WAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WAN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

WAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 84 (10.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (7.63%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.00%) IIS
4 4 (0.50%) SAS
4 4 (0.50%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.25%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 55 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.38%) SPSS
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 336 (42.00%) Azure
2 239 (29.88%) Microsoft 365
3 102 (12.75%) AWS
4 67 (8.38%) Entra ID
5 35 (4.38%) GCP
6 26 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
6 26 (3.25%) SaaS
7 25 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.00%) IaaS
9 20 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (2.50%) PaaS
10 17 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (1.88%) OneDrive
12 11 (1.38%) Mimecast
13 9 (1.13%) Rubrik
14 8 (1.00%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
15 6 (0.75%) Datadog
15 6 (0.75%) GitHub
16 5 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 560 (70.00%) LAN
2 383 (47.88%) Firewall
3 335 (41.88%) SD-WAN
4 215 (26.88%) VPN
5 184 (23.00%) Wi-Fi
6 168 (21.00%) DNS
7 152 (19.00%) Wireless
8 137 (17.13%) MPLS
9 136 (17.00%) DHCP
10 125 (15.63%) TCP/IP
11 122 (15.25%) Network Security
12 104 (13.00%) BGP
13 95 (11.88%) WLAN
14 91 (11.38%) VLAN
15 82 (10.25%) OSPF
16 72 (9.00%) SAN
17 68 (8.50%) Internet
18 47 (5.88%) VoIP
19 35 (4.38%) Cisco Firepower
20 34 (4.25%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.75%) DB2
5 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.63%) Power BI
6 3 (0.38%) Big Data
6 3 (0.38%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) MySQL
8 1 (0.13%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 4 (0.50%) MSBuild
1 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 222 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.75%) Finance
3 65 (8.13%) Retail
4 38 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.63%) Telecoms
6 25 (3.13%) Legal
7 22 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 20 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.88%) Banking
11 12 (1.50%) Law
11 12 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.75%) Billing
13 6 (0.75%) French Language
13 6 (0.75%) German Language
13 6 (0.75%) Italian Language
13 6 (0.75%) Portuguese Language
13 6 (0.75%) Publishing
13 6 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 154 (19.25%) Senior
2 150 (18.75%) Architect
3 146 (18.25%) Network Engineer
4 113 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 87 (10.88%) Analyst
6 65 (8.13%) Security Architect
7 59 (7.38%) Lead
8 49 (6.13%) Senior Architect
9 44 (5.50%) Senior Network Engineer
10 43 (5.38%) Support Engineer
11 42 (5.25%) Cisco Architect
11 42 (5.25%) IT Engineer
11 42 (5.25%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 41 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (4.25%) Consultant
14 33 (4.13%) Network Analyst
14 33 (4.13%) Senior Security Architect
15 32 (4.00%) Network Manager
16 31 (3.88%) 3rd Line Support
16 31 (3.88%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.00%) HTML
2 7 (0.88%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.63%) LDAP
3 5 (0.63%) XMPP
4 4 (0.50%) .NET
4 4 (0.50%) Web Services
4 4 (0.50%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.25%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.25%) Middleware
5 2 (0.25%) TAPI
6 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.13%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.13%) OAuth
6 1 (0.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 158 (19.75%) Data Centre
2 77 (9.63%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 39 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 28 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 20 (2.50%) IoT
8 18 (2.25%) Client/Server
9 16 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.75%) PKI
11 13 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (1.50%) PMI
12 12 (1.50%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.00%) GNSS
14 7 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.75%) Onboarding
16 5 (0.63%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 245 (30.63%) Windows
2 122 (15.25%) Windows Server
3 88 (11.00%) Linux
4 40 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 39 (4.88%) Ubuntu
5 39 (4.88%) VMS
5 39 (4.88%) Windows 10
6 30 (3.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (3.50%) Android
8 27 (3.38%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.25%) CentOS
11 7 (0.88%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.63%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.50%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.50%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 127 (15.88%) Cybersecurity
3 109 (13.63%) Presales
4 106 (13.25%) Agile
5 82 (10.25%) ITIL
6 80 (10.00%) Application Security
7 78 (9.75%) Project Management
8 76 (9.50%) Information Security
8 76 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (9.00%) Mentoring
10 68 (8.50%) Customer Service
11 63 (7.88%) Time Management
12 54 (6.75%) Disaster Recovery
13 51 (6.38%) Analytics
14 50 (6.25%) Customer Engagement
15 49 (6.13%) Project Delivery
16 48 (6.00%) Roadmaps
17 44 (5.50%) CI/CD
17 44 (5.50%) Software Licensing
18 42 (5.25%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.00%) PowerShell
2 44 (5.50%) Python
3 12 (1.50%) SQL
4 7 (0.88%) Bash
5 6 (0.75%) Java
6 2 (0.25%) Korn
6 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.25%) PHP
7 1 (0.13%) C#
7 1 (0.13%) Delphi
7 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.13%) Perl
7 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 226 (28.25%) Cisco Certification
2 137 (17.13%) CCNP
3 130 (16.25%) CCNA
4 122 (15.25%) Degree
5 86 (10.75%) Security Cleared
6 57 (7.13%) CISSP
7 51 (6.38%) CCIE
7 51 (6.38%) DV Cleared
8 50 (6.25%) Azure Certification
9 47 (5.88%) CCSP
10 46 (5.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 39 (4.88%) AWS Certification
12 37 (4.63%) CCDP
13 34 (4.25%) CISM
14 33 (4.13%) CCSK
15 26 (3.25%) SC Cleared
16 20 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
17 16 (2.00%) APMP
18 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (1.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.00%) NIST
2 48 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (4.88%) SLA
4 23 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 253 (31.63%) Active Directory
2 124 (15.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (12.75%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.13%) Docker
5 28 (3.50%) vSphere
6 25 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (1.00%) NFS
10 4 (0.50%) Firmware
11 2 (0.25%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (8.75%) Ansible
2 68 (8.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 56 (7.00%) Terraform
4 37 (4.63%) FortiGate
4 37 (4.63%) Kubernetes
5 35 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
5 35 (4.38%) WSUS
6 27 (3.38%) Stealthwatch
7 19 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (2.13%) SCCM
9 15 (1.88%) CASB
10 13 (1.63%) Nmap
11 12 (1.50%) Opsgenie
11 12 (1.50%) VxRail
11 12 (1.50%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.75%) SCVMM
13 5 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.63%) PaperCut
14 4 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
15 3 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 359 (44.88%) Cisco
2 327 (40.88%) Microsoft
3 176 (22.00%) VMware
4 168 (21.00%) Meraki
5 96 (12.00%) Fortinet
6 74 (9.25%) Juniper
7 57 (7.13%) Palo Alto
8 51 (6.38%) Aruba
9 50 (6.25%) HP
10 45 (5.63%) Apple
11 43 (5.38%) SolarWinds
12 42 (5.25%) Adobe
13 36 (4.50%) Dell
14 32 (4.00%) Citrix
15 31 (3.88%) Veeam
16 25 (3.13%) NetApp
17 22 (2.75%) Ruckus Wireless
18 20 (2.50%) Rapid7
19 19 (2.38%) CheckPoint
20 15 (1.88%) Red Hat