WAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 148 175
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 -28
Permanent jobs citing WAN 1,495 1,394 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 2.36% 2.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.33% 12.85% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 971 1,227
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% -3.33%
75th Percentile £55,000 £54,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,603 £65,313 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +3.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +22 429 £42,500 -5.56% 95
Midlands +49 336 £42,000 +4.35% 60
West Midlands +91 282 £42,000 -1.75% 45
South East -15 264 £50,000 +17.65% 68
South West +20 234 £45,000 +6.19% 30
North West +1 228 £42,500 -5.56% 59
Yorkshire +71 172 £53,750 +19.44% 32
East of England +33 149 £42,500 +6.25% 28
Scotland -70 79 £40,000 -5.88% 16
East Midlands -45 48 £45,000 +20.00% 15
North East -16 42 £38,000 -10.59% 4
Wales +16 37 £40,500 -10.00% 11
Northern Ireland 0 3 £37,500 -11.76% 5
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 184 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 165 (11.04%) SharePoint
3 66 (4.41%) IIS
4 12 (0.80%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
5 8 (0.54%) CMS
6 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.067%) Apache
9 1 (0.067%) Confluence
9 1 (0.067%) nginx
9 1 (0.067%) Site Server
Applications
1 144 (9.63%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.27%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.067%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 623 (41.67%) Azure
2 559 (37.39%) Microsoft 365
3 190 (12.71%) AWS
4 182 (12.17%) Entra ID
5 73 (4.88%) OneDrive
6 57 (3.81%) IaaS
6 57 (3.81%) SaaS
7 56 (3.75%) GCP
8 54 (3.61%) PaaS
9 43 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
10 31 (2.07%) Power Platform
11 20 (1.34%) Mimecast
12 17 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
13 14 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.54%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.54%) Nutanix
14 8 (0.54%) Serverless
15 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,059 (70.84%) LAN
2 606 (40.54%) Firewall
3 391 (26.15%) SD-WAN
4 294 (19.67%) DNS
5 293 (19.60%) VPN
6 271 (18.13%) TCP/IP
7 265 (17.73%) DHCP
8 261 (17.46%) Wi-Fi
9 225 (15.05%) Wireless
10 198 (13.24%) MPLS
11 176 (11.77%) VLAN
12 149 (9.97%) BGP
13 147 (9.83%) WLAN
14 136 (9.10%) Network Security
15 122 (8.16%) OSPF
16 107 (7.16%) VoIP
17 102 (6.82%) SAN
18 77 (5.15%) Internet
19 57 (3.81%) IPsec
20 52 (3.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 27 (1.81%) NoSQL
3 15 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.74%) MySQL
5 11 (0.74%) Power BI
6 8 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.33%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.33%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.20%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.13%) DB2
10 2 (0.13%) DTS
10 2 (0.13%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.067%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.067%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (0.67%) JIRA
2 8 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.47%) Git
4 4 (0.27%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 444 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 136 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (6.76%) Finance
4 78 (5.22%) Telecoms
5 67 (4.48%) Retail
6 59 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.47%) Law
10 28 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.81%) Legal
12 24 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.61%) Electronics
13 21 (1.40%) Public Sector
14 19 (1.27%) Police
15 15 (1.00%) Banking
16 14 (0.94%) Marketing
17 9 (0.60%) French Language
17 9 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 288 (19.26%) Network Engineer
2 233 (15.59%) Senior
3 231 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 188 (12.58%) Analyst
5 149 (9.97%) Support Engineer
6 118 (7.89%) Architect
7 115 (7.69%) IT Support
8 111 (7.42%) IT Engineer
9 90 (6.02%) Lead
10 66 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
11 63 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
12 59 (3.95%) IT Analyst
12 59 (3.95%) IT Manager
13 58 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support
13 58 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 57 (3.81%) Security Architect
15 54 (3.61%) Support Analyst
16 53 (3.55%) 3rd Line Support
16 53 (3.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (3.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.27%) REST
1 19 (1.27%) WebRTC
2 9 (0.60%) LDAP
3 8 (0.54%) .NET
4 4 (0.27%) Akka
4 4 (0.27%) Web Services
5 3 (0.20%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.20%) SAML
6 2 (0.13%) HTML
6 2 (0.13%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.13%) Middleware
6 2 (0.13%) Node.js
6 2 (0.13%) React
6 2 (0.13%) RESTful
6 2 (0.13%) ServiceStack
6 2 (0.13%) X-Windows
7 1 (0.067%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.067%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.067%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 195 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 103 (6.89%) Driving Licence
3 83 (5.55%) Management Information System
4 63 (4.21%) Clustering
5 49 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 49 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.34%) IoT
7 32 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 32 (2.14%) PKI
8 31 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 27 (1.81%) Replication
10 24 (1.61%) PMI
11 22 (1.47%) NHS
12 20 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.20%) GNSS
14 17 (1.14%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.07%) Client/Server
16 15 (1.00%) Fat Client
16 15 (1.00%) Thin Client
17 13 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 598 (40.00%) Windows
2 330 (22.07%) Windows Server
3 153 (10.23%) Windows 10
4 133 (8.90%) Linux
5 80 (5.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 68 (4.55%) Android
7 65 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (3.01%) Apple iOS
9 43 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 30 (2.01%) Mac OS
10 30 (2.01%) Windows 7
11 18 (1.20%) VyOS
12 16 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (1.00%) VMS
14 11 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (0.67%) CentOS
16 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.40%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.40%) Windows XP
18 5 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
2 296 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 242 (16.19%) ITIL
4 195 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
5 187 (12.51%) Customer Service
6 126 (8.43%) Project Delivery
7 120 (8.03%) Mentoring
7 120 (8.03%) Project Management
8 109 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 107 (7.16%) Time Management
10 89 (5.95%) Service Delivery
11 86 (5.75%) Presales
12 81 (5.42%) Migration
13 76 (5.08%) Agile
14 75 (5.02%) Computer Science
15 74 (4.95%) High Availability
16 73 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (4.75%) Information Security
18 67 (4.48%) Service Management
19 62 (4.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 143 (9.57%) PowerShell
2 137 (9.16%) SQL
3 58 (3.88%) Python
4 36 (2.41%) Bash
5 24 (1.61%) Perl
6 23 (1.54%) Java
7 16 (1.07%) C++
8 13 (0.87%) MATLAB
9 8 (0.54%) C
9 8 (0.54%) Tcl
9 8 (0.54%) VB
10 7 (0.47%) C#
11 3 (0.20%) PHP
11 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.13%) Bicep
12 2 (0.13%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.067%) Delphi
13 1 (0.067%) Korn
13 1 (0.067%) VBA
Qualifications
1 336 (22.47%) Cisco Certification
2 242 (16.19%) Degree
3 228 (15.25%) CCNA
4 188 (12.58%) Security Cleared
5 157 (10.50%) CCNP
6 107 (7.16%) SC Cleared
7 76 (5.08%) CCIE
8 65 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (3.75%) CISSP
10 54 (3.61%) Azure Certification
10 54 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.94%) CCDP
12 39 (2.61%) JNCIA
12 39 (2.61%) MCSE
13 38 (2.54%) DV Cleared
14 37 (2.47%) AWS Certification
15 35 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 35 (2.34%) CCSP
16 34 (2.27%) DBS Check
17 31 (2.07%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.08%) SLA
2 45 (3.01%) NIST
3 43 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 30 (2.01%) GDPR
5 27 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.94%) PMO
7 10 (0.67%) QA
8 9 (0.60%) COSHH
9 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.20%) JTAG
12 2 (0.13%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.067%) SOC 2
System Software
1 553 (36.99%) Active Directory
2 306 (20.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 232 (15.52%) Hyper-V
4 61 (4.08%) VMware NSX
5 55 (3.68%) vSphere
6 36 (2.41%) Docker
7 24 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 21 (1.40%) Firmware
10 11 (0.74%) XenDesktop
11 9 (0.60%) XenApp
12 8 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.40%) NFS
13 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.27%) pfSense
15 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 175 (11.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (4.75%) FortiGate
3 59 (3.95%) SCCM
4 36 (2.41%) Terraform
5 35 (2.34%) Ansible
5 35 (2.34%) Kubernetes
6 32 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.01%) WSUS
8 24 (1.61%) Stealthwatch
9 19 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.20%) VxRail
11 17 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (1.00%) CASB
12 15 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.94%) Autotask
13 14 (0.94%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.80%) Opsgenie
15 9 (0.60%) SCVMM
16 8 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 670 (44.82%) Microsoft
2 502 (33.58%) Cisco
3 459 (30.70%) VMware
4 151 (10.10%) Juniper
5 137 (9.16%) Meraki
6 108 (7.22%) Fortinet
7 88 (5.89%) HP
8 72 (4.82%) Citrix
9 71 (4.75%) Apple
9 71 (4.75%) Palo Alto
10 68 (4.55%) Veeam
11 59 (3.95%) Dell
12 58 (3.88%) Aruba
13 51 (3.41%) CheckPoint
14 42 (2.81%) SolarWinds
15 39 (2.61%) Adobe
16 38 (2.54%) Nokia
17 35 (2.34%) NetApp
18 34 (2.27%) Ruckus Wireless
19 30 (2.01%) F5