WAN Engineer Jobs in England

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
UK > England

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 871 1120
Rank change year-on-year +81 +249 -264
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 52 25 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.029% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.032% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 49 20 49
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,750 £39,700
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -36.36% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £40,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -41.67% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in England

WAN Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for WAN Engineer in England

WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN Engineer in England

WAN Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +110 25 £57,500 +64.29% 2
West Midlands +17 21 £27,400 - 3
Midlands +2 21 £27,400 - 3
North of England +32 5 £75,000 -
North West 0 5 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 5 £75,000 -
East of England - 5 £75,000 -
South East -6 2 £56,250 +40.63%
WAN Engineer
UK

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, WAN Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) WAN
2 31 (59.62%) LAN
3 30 (57.69%) SD-WAN
4 24 (46.15%) Cisco
5 23 (44.23%) Presales
6 22 (42.31%) Meraki
6 22 (42.31%) Juniper
7 20 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (36.54%) Azure
9 18 (34.62%) Aruba
10 17 (32.69%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (32.69%) Public Cloud
10 17 (32.69%) Sales Enablement
10 17 (32.69%) Fortinet
11 16 (30.77%) MPLS
12 15 (28.85%) IPsec
13 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
14 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
15 10 (19.23%) Firewall
16 9 (17.31%) PKI
16 9 (17.31%) VPN
17 8 (15.38%) WLAN
18 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (11.54%) BGP
18 6 (11.54%) Load Balancing
18 6 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
19 5 (9.62%) Business Development
20 4 (7.69%) CCNP
20 4 (7.69%) SolarWinds
21 3 (5.77%) Data Centre

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 1 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.92%) IaaS
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.92%) PaaS
2 1 (1.92%) Rubrik
2 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (100.00%) WAN
2 31 (59.62%) LAN
3 30 (57.69%) SD-WAN
4 20 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (32.69%) Cisco ISE
6 16 (30.77%) MPLS
7 15 (28.85%) IPsec
8 10 (19.23%) Firewall
9 9 (17.31%) VPN
10 8 (15.38%) WLAN
11 6 (11.54%) BGP
12 2 (3.85%) Unified Communications
13 1 (1.92%) DHCP
13 1 (1.92%) DNS
13 1 (1.92%) Ethernet
13 1 (1.92%) HSRP
13 1 (1.92%) Internet
13 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
13 1 (1.92%) OSPF
13 1 (1.92%) Wireless
General
1 3 (5.77%) Law
2 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Public Cloud
2 9 (17.31%) PKI
3 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) FlexPod
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Presales
2 17 (32.69%) Sales Enablement
3 6 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (11.54%) Load Balancing
4 5 (9.62%) Business Development
5 3 (5.77%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (3.85%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.85%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (1.92%) Bill of Materials
7 1 (1.92%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (1.92%) DevSecOps
7 1 (1.92%) IT Strategy
7 1 (1.92%) ITIL
7 1 (1.92%) Project Management
7 1 (1.92%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.92%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.69%) CCNP
5 3 (5.77%) CCNA
6 1 (1.92%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
1 1 (1.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (46.15%) Cisco
2 22 (42.31%) Juniper
2 22 (42.31%) Meraki
3 18 (34.62%) Aruba
4 17 (32.69%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.85%) HP
6 2 (3.85%) NetApp
7 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.92%) Citrix
7 1 (1.92%) Dell
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.92%) Mitel
7 1 (1.92%) Nokia
7 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.92%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.92%) Snow
7 1 (1.92%) Veeam
7 1 (1.92%) VMware