WAN Jobs in Oxfordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 86 115
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 -25
Permanent jobs citing WAN 34 23 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.74% 1.69% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.41% 12.30% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 22
10th Percentile £35,775 £37,500 £31,925
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,089 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,125 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -3.33% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 236 187 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.05% 13.77% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 194 146 148
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £30,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Oxford -12 12 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Abingdon +47 4 £40,000 - 1
Banbury - 3 £65,000 - 1
Bicester - 2 £37,250 -
Witney - 2 £27,500 -
Thame - 1 £72,500 -
Kidlington - 1 £42,500 -
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (14.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) AWS
3 12 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Akamai
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.94%) OCI
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (79.41%) LAN
2 15 (44.12%) DNS
3 12 (35.29%) Firewall
4 10 (29.41%) SD-WAN
5 9 (26.47%) OSPF
5 9 (26.47%) VPN
6 8 (23.53%) DHCP
7 6 (17.65%) Network Security
7 6 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (11.76%) VLAN
9 3 (8.82%) Wireless
10 2 (5.88%) BGP
10 2 (5.88%) SSL
10 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
10 2 (5.88%) VXLAN
10 2 (5.88%) WLAN
11 1 (2.94%) MPLS
11 1 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (2.94%) SAN
11 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) InfluxDB
1 5 (14.71%) MariaDB
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
1 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Network Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior
3 7 (20.59%) Lead
3 7 (20.59%) Network Team Leader
3 7 (20.59%) Senior Network Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Team Leader
4 5 (14.71%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (14.71%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Communications Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Project Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) 802.1X
1 2 (5.88%) EDI
2 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) PKI
2 4 (11.76%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.88%) CCTV
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.88%) Molecular Biology
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Windows 10
3 9 (26.47%) Linux
4 7 (20.59%) Android
5 6 (17.65%) Apple iOS
5 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (14.71%) CentOS
6 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
6 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (11.76%) Mac OS X
7 4 (11.76%) Windows 8
7 4 (11.76%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Information Security
2 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 6 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (14.71%) Open Source
4 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
4 5 (14.71%) Time Management
5 4 (11.76%) Email Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Innovative Thinking
5 4 (11.76%) ITIL
5 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Network Architecture
5 4 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (5.88%) Commercialisation
6 2 (5.88%) Disruptive Innovation
6 2 (5.88%) IT Strategy
6 2 (5.88%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (5.88%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Bash
2 7 (20.59%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) Perl
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Korn
5 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.76%) CCNP
2 4 (11.76%) MCP
3 3 (8.82%) CCNA
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.88%) CCIE
4 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) MCITP
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (32.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (29.41%) Hyper-V
4 5 (14.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
1 5 (14.71%) Puppet
1 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) SCCM
3 1 (2.94%) WSUS
3 1 (2.94%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) VMware
2 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 12 (35.29%) Cisco
4 8 (23.53%) Fortinet
5 6 (17.65%) Citrix
6 5 (14.71%) Juniper
7 4 (11.76%) Dell
7 4 (11.76%) HP
8 3 (8.82%) Meraki
9 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
9 2 (5.88%) Snow
9 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.94%) Apple
10 1 (2.94%) Google
10 1 (2.94%) NetApp
10 1 (2.94%) Oracle
10 1 (2.94%) SAP
10 1 (2.94%) Veeam