WAN Jobs in the South East

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 135 198
Rank change year-on-year -36 +63 -56
Permanent jobs citing WAN 268 322 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.50% 2.34% 1.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.58% 13.05% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 218 225 291
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,300 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -7.90% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,797 2,467 3,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.65% 17.92% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,887 1,455 1,863
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,850
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WAN in the South East.

Salary trend for WAN in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Thames Valley -17 102 £50,000 - 23
Hampshire -27 69 £45,000 - 7
Berkshire +2 47 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Surrey -2 40 £50,000 +23.46% 3
Oxfordshire +16 33 £44,089 -7.18% 6
Kent -40 32 £48,500 +19.75% 9
Buckinghamshire -45 23 £45,000 -18.18% 4
East Sussex +22 13 £55,000 +35.80%
West Sussex +23 10 £26,000 -41.57% 3
Home Counties - 1 £90,000 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 26 (9.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.87%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Site Server
Applications
1 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.70%) Azure
2 84 (31.34%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (13.06%) AWS
4 34 (12.69%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.85%) SaaS
6 11 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.61%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.24%) IaaS
9 4 (1.49%) PaaS
9 4 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.75%) GCP
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.37%) OCI
11 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 176 (65.67%) LAN
2 122 (45.52%) Firewall
3 68 (25.37%) SD-WAN
4 56 (20.90%) Wireless
5 54 (20.15%) VPN
6 43 (16.04%) DNS
7 36 (13.43%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (12.69%) MPLS
9 32 (11.94%) DHCP
9 32 (11.94%) TCP/IP
10 29 (10.82%) VLAN
11 27 (10.07%) BGP
12 25 (9.33%) Network Security
13 19 (7.09%) VoIP
14 18 (6.72%) 4G
14 18 (6.72%) OSPF
15 17 (6.34%) 5G
15 17 (6.34%) Cisco Firepower
16 16 (5.97%) SSL
17 15 (5.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.87%) InfluxDB
2 5 (1.87%) MariaDB
2 5 (1.87%) MySQL
2 5 (1.87%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.87%) Git
3 4 (1.49%) MSBuild
3 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.37%) JIRA
General
1 97 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.70%) Telecoms
3 22 (8.21%) Finance
4 9 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (2.99%) Legal
6 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.49%) Games
6 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.12%) Advertising
7 3 (1.12%) Banking
7 3 (1.12%) Electronics
7 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Law
8 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.37%) Automotive
9 1 (0.37%) Billing
9 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Local Government
9 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 68 (25.37%) Network Engineer
2 49 (18.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (14.93%) Architect
4 39 (14.55%) Senior
5 22 (8.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 21 (7.84%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.34%) IT Engineer
8 16 (5.97%) Analyst
8 16 (5.97%) IP Architect
8 16 (5.97%) IT Support
8 16 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (5.60%) 3rd Line Support
9 15 (5.60%) Cisco Architect
9 15 (5.60%) Senior Architect
9 15 (5.60%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 12 (4.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Lead
11 11 (4.10%) Service Manager
11 11 (4.10%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.49%) .NET
2 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.37%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.37%) EDI
3 1 (0.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.66%) Data Centre
2 44 (16.42%) Driving Licence
3 20 (7.46%) Management Information System
4 19 (7.09%) IoT
5 18 (6.72%) PKI
6 11 (4.10%) Client/Server
6 11 (4.10%) NHS
7 9 (3.36%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.87%) Clustering
10 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.87%) PMI
11 4 (1.49%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.75%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 113 (42.16%) Windows
2 60 (22.39%) Windows Server
3 27 (10.07%) Linux
4 25 (9.33%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.85%) Android
6 12 (4.48%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (4.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (2.61%) Mac OS
9 6 (2.24%) Windows 8
9 6 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.87%) CentOS
10 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.49%) Mac OS X
11 4 (1.49%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (20.52%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (13.43%) Presales
5 34 (12.69%) Customer Service
6 30 (11.19%) Time Management
7 26 (9.70%) ITIL
8 20 (7.46%) Information Security
8 20 (7.46%) Project Management
9 19 (7.09%) Data Management
10 18 (6.72%) Mentoring
11 16 (5.97%) Analytics
11 16 (5.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (5.60%) Business Development
12 15 (5.60%) Customer Engagement
12 15 (5.60%) Service Delivery
12 15 (5.60%) Software Licensing
13 14 (5.22%) Kalman Filter
13 14 (5.22%) Network Design
14 13 (4.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.09%) Python
2 16 (5.97%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.10%) Bash
4 6 (2.24%) SQL
5 5 (1.87%) Perl
6 1 (0.37%) Korn
6 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (17.91%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (14.18%) Degree
3 36 (13.43%) CCNA
3 36 (13.43%) Security Cleared
4 25 (9.33%) CCNP
5 23 (8.58%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.48%) DBS Check
8 11 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.73%) CCIE
9 10 (3.73%) MCP
10 9 (3.36%) CTC Cleared
11 8 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.99%) MCSE
12 6 (2.24%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.87%) JNCIE
14 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.12%) MCSA
15 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (8.21%) GDPR
3 9 (3.36%) COSHH
4 6 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (30.60%) Active Directory
2 66 (24.63%) Hyper-V
3 44 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.48%) vSphere
5 5 (1.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.75%) Docker
6 2 (0.75%) KVM
6 2 (0.75%) QEMU
6 2 (0.75%) Xen
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 39 (14.55%) FortiGate
2 16 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.73%) Ansible
3 10 (3.73%) Stealthwatch
4 9 (3.36%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.61%) Terraform
6 6 (2.24%) Endace
6 6 (2.24%) SCCM
6 6 (2.24%) VxRail
7 5 (1.87%) CASB
7 5 (1.87%) Puppet
7 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 3 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.37%) Nessus
10 1 (0.37%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.37%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.37%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 114 (42.54%) Cisco
2 110 (41.04%) Microsoft
3 77 (28.73%) VMware
4 49 (18.28%) Juniper
5 34 (12.69%) HP
6 30 (11.19%) Fortinet
7 25 (9.33%) Meraki
8 22 (8.21%) Aruba
9 17 (6.34%) Darktrace
9 17 (6.34%) NEC
10 16 (5.97%) Apple
11 15 (5.60%) Adobe
12 14 (5.22%) Mitel
13 13 (4.85%) Citrix
13 13 (4.85%) Dell
13 13 (4.85%) Draytek
14 11 (4.10%) Palo Alto
15 9 (3.36%) Ribbon
16 7 (2.61%) F5
17 5 (1.87%) BT