WAN Engineer Jobs

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
UK

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 922 1202
Rank change year-on-year +68 +280 -312
Permanent jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 53 25 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.026% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.029% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 50 21 57
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -41.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £40,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £33,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -40.00% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in the UK

WAN Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WAN Engineer in the UK

WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN Engineer in the UK

WAN Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +64 53 £50,000 +42.86% 7
UK excluding London -12 28 £30,000 -9.09% 3
London +122 25 £57,500 +55.41% 3
Midlands +6 22 £27,400 - 3
West Midlands +5 22 £27,400 - 3
Work from Home +61 20 £57,500 +43.75%
North of England +36 5 £75,000 -
North West -1 5 £75,000 -
Yorkshire - 5 £75,000 -
East of England - 5 £75,000 -
South East -7 2 £56,250 +40.63%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) WAN
2 31 (58.49%) LAN
3 30 (56.60%) SD-WAN
4 24 (45.28%) Cisco
5 23 (43.40%) Juniper
5 23 (43.40%) Presales
6 22 (41.51%) Meraki
7 20 (37.74%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (35.85%) Azure
9 18 (33.96%) Aruba
10 17 (32.08%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (32.08%) Public Cloud
10 17 (32.08%) Sales Enablement
10 17 (32.08%) Fortinet
11 16 (30.19%) MPLS
12 15 (28.30%) IPsec
13 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
14 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
15 10 (18.87%) PKI
15 10 (18.87%) Firewall
16 9 (16.98%) VPN
17 8 (15.09%) WLAN
18 6 (11.32%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (11.32%) BGP
18 6 (11.32%) Load Balancing
18 6 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
19 5 (9.43%) Business Development
20 4 (7.55%) CCNP
20 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
21 3 (5.66%) Data Centre

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (35.85%) Azure
2 1 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.89%) IaaS
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.89%) PaaS
2 1 (1.89%) Rubrik
2 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (100.00%) WAN
2 31 (58.49%) LAN
3 30 (56.60%) SD-WAN
4 20 (37.74%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (32.08%) Cisco ISE
6 16 (30.19%) MPLS
7 15 (28.30%) IPsec
8 10 (18.87%) Firewall
9 9 (16.98%) VPN
10 8 (15.09%) WLAN
11 6 (11.32%) BGP
12 2 (3.77%) Unified Communications
13 1 (1.89%) DHCP
13 1 (1.89%) DNS
13 1 (1.89%) Ethernet
13 1 (1.89%) Internet
13 1 (1.89%) NetScaler
13 1 (1.89%) OSPF
13 1 (1.89%) PBX
13 1 (1.89%) Wireless
General
1 3 (5.66%) Law
2 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Public Cloud
2 10 (18.87%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) FlexPod
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Presales
2 17 (32.08%) Sales Enablement
3 6 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (11.32%) Load Balancing
4 5 (9.43%) Business Development
5 3 (5.66%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (3.77%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.77%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.77%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (1.89%) Bill of Materials
7 1 (1.89%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (1.89%) DevSecOps
7 1 (1.89%) IT Strategy
7 1 (1.89%) ITIL
7 1 (1.89%) Project Management
7 1 (1.89%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.89%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.55%) CCNP
5 3 (5.66%) CCNA
6 1 (1.89%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
1 1 (1.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (45.28%) Cisco
2 23 (43.40%) Juniper
3 22 (41.51%) Meraki
4 18 (33.96%) Aruba
5 17 (32.08%) Fortinet
6 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.77%) HP
7 2 (3.77%) NetApp
8 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.89%) Citrix
8 1 (1.89%) Dell
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.89%) Mitel
8 1 (1.89%) Nokia
8 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.89%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.89%) Snow
8 1 (1.89%) Veeam
8 1 (1.89%) VMware