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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 177 286
Rank change year-on-year +42 +109 -66
Permanent jobs citing WAN 788 828 972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.33% 2.04% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.19% 18.13% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 608 652 836
10th Percentile £33,200 £34,525 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +3.09%

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 5,188 4,568 7,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.33% 11.26% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,332 3,397 5,031
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,684
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +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 19 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 88 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.03%) IIS
4 4 (0.51%) SAS
4 4 (0.51%) 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%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 56 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.02%) 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
1 334 (42.39%) Azure
2 243 (30.84%) Microsoft 365
3 99 (12.56%) AWS
4 66 (8.38%) Entra ID
5 33 (4.19%) GCP
6 26 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
6 26 (3.30%) SaaS
7 25 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.05%) IaaS
9 20 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (2.54%) PaaS
10 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (1.90%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.27%) Mimecast
13 8 (1.02%) Rubrik
14 7 (0.89%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
15 6 (0.76%) GitHub
16 5 (0.63%) Datadog
16 5 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 556 (70.56%) LAN
2 374 (47.46%) Firewall
3 327 (41.50%) SD-WAN
4 212 (26.90%) VPN
5 182 (23.10%) Wi-Fi
6 170 (21.57%) DNS
7 144 (18.27%) Wireless
8 139 (17.64%) DHCP
9 134 (17.01%) MPLS
10 123 (15.61%) TCP/IP
11 120 (15.23%) Network Security
12 106 (13.45%) BGP
13 98 (12.44%) WLAN
14 90 (11.42%) VLAN
15 83 (10.53%) OSPF
16 71 (9.01%) SAN
17 65 (8.25%) Internet
18 45 (5.71%) VoIP
19 33 (4.19%) Cisco Firepower
19 33 (4.19%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.76%) 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 (0.51%) MSBuild
1 4 (0.51%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 93 (11.80%) Finance
3 64 (8.12%) Retail
4 37 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.30%) Telecoms
6 25 (3.17%) Legal
7 22 (2.79%) Public Sector
8 20 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.90%) Banking
11 13 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.52%) Law
13 10 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.76%) Billing
14 6 (0.76%) French Language
14 6 (0.76%) German Language
14 6 (0.76%) Italian Language
14 6 (0.76%) Portuguese Language
14 6 (0.76%) Publishing
14 6 (0.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 145 (18.40%) Network Engineer
2 144 (18.27%) Senior
3 143 (18.15%) Architect
4 109 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 88 (11.17%) Analyst
6 62 (7.87%) Security Architect
7 56 (7.11%) Lead
8 46 (5.84%) Senior Architect
8 46 (5.84%) Support Engineer
9 43 (5.46%) IT Engineer
10 39 (4.95%) Cisco Architect
10 39 (4.95%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 39 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
11 38 (4.82%) Senior Network Engineer
12 35 (4.44%) Network Analyst
13 33 (4.19%) Consultant
13 33 (4.19%) Network Manager
13 33 (4.19%) Operations Analyst
14 31 (3.93%) 3rd Line Support
15 30 (3.81%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.02%) HTML
2 7 (0.89%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.63%) XMPP
4 4 (0.51%) .NET
4 4 (0.51%) Web Services
4 4 (0.51%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (0.38%) LDAP
6 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.25%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.25%) Middleware
6 2 (0.25%) TAPI
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.13%) OAuth
7 1 (0.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 153 (19.42%) Data Centre
2 77 (9.77%) Management Information System
3 43 (5.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 39 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 28 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.92%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.41%) IoT
8 18 (2.28%) Client/Server
9 16 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.78%) PKI
11 13 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (1.52%) PMI
12 12 (1.52%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.02%) GNSS
13 8 (1.02%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.76%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.76%) Replication
16 5 (0.63%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 245 (31.09%) Windows
2 126 (15.99%) Windows Server
3 84 (10.66%) Linux
4 39 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (4.82%) Windows 10
6 36 (4.57%) Ubuntu
6 36 (4.57%) VMS
7 31 (3.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (3.55%) Android
9 27 (3.43%) Apple iOS
10 13 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (1.02%) CentOS
13 7 (0.89%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.63%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.51%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.51%) Windows XP
17 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (19.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (15.86%) Cybersecurity
3 108 (13.71%) Presales
4 104 (13.20%) Agile
5 81 (10.28%) Project Management
6 80 (10.15%) ITIL
7 77 (9.77%) Application Security
8 76 (9.64%) Information Security
8 76 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (8.76%) Customer Service
10 68 (8.63%) Mentoring
11 61 (7.74%) Time Management
12 55 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
13 49 (6.22%) Project Delivery
14 48 (6.09%) Analytics
15 46 (5.84%) Customer Engagement
15 46 (5.84%) Roadmaps
16 44 (5.58%) CI/CD
17 42 (5.33%) Migration
18 41 (5.20%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.36%) PowerShell
2 43 (5.46%) Python
3 12 (1.52%) SQL
4 8 (1.02%) Bash
5 4 (0.51%) 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%) 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
1 222 (28.17%) Cisco Certification
2 133 (16.88%) CCNP
3 128 (16.24%) CCNA
4 118 (14.97%) Degree
5 81 (10.28%) Security Cleared
6 57 (7.23%) CISSP
7 51 (6.47%) CCIE
8 49 (6.22%) Azure Certification
9 48 (6.09%) DV Cleared
10 47 (5.96%) CCSP
11 46 (5.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 39 (4.95%) AWS Certification
13 38 (4.82%) CCDP
14 34 (4.31%) CISM
15 33 (4.19%) CCSK
16 25 (3.17%) SC Cleared
17 20 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
18 16 (2.03%) APMP
18 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (1.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.11%) NIST
2 50 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (5.08%) SLA
4 22 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 254 (32.23%) Active Directory
2 124 (15.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (12.82%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.20%) Docker
5 28 (3.55%) vSphere
6 26 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (1.02%) NFS
10 4 (0.51%) Firmware
11 2 (0.25%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (8.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 65 (8.25%) Ansible
3 53 (6.73%) Terraform
4 37 (4.70%) Kubernetes
5 36 (4.57%) FortiGate
5 36 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
5 36 (4.57%) WSUS
6 24 (3.05%) Stealthwatch
7 19 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (2.03%) SCCM
9 15 (1.90%) CASB
10 13 (1.65%) Nmap
11 12 (1.52%) Opsgenie
11 12 (1.52%) VxRail
11 12 (1.52%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.63%) PaperCut
12 5 (0.63%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
14 3 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 349 (44.29%) Cisco
2 327 (41.50%) Microsoft
3 178 (22.59%) VMware
4 162 (20.56%) Meraki
5 93 (11.80%) Fortinet
6 74 (9.39%) Juniper
7 55 (6.98%) Palo Alto
8 49 (6.22%) Aruba
9 46 (5.84%) HP
10 42 (5.33%) Apple
10 42 (5.33%) SolarWinds
11 39 (4.95%) Adobe
12 35 (4.44%) Dell
13 32 (4.06%) Citrix
14 30 (3.81%) Veeam
15 24 (3.05%) NetApp
16 21 (2.66%) Ruckus Wireless
17 19 (2.41%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.41%) Rapid7
18 14 (1.78%) Splunk