Senior LAN/WAN Engineer Jobs

Senior Local & Wide Area Network Engineer (Senior LAN/WAN Engineer)
UK

The median Senior Local & Wide Area Network Engineer (Senior LAN/WAN Engineer) salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior LAN/WAN Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £66,250 - -
25th Percentile £71,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £79,063 - -
90th Percentile £86,375 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Senior LAN/WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior LAN/WAN Engineer in the UK

Senior LAN/WAN Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior LAN/WAN Engineer in the UK

Senior LAN/WAN Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior LAN/WAN Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior LAN/WAN Engineer in the UK

Senior LAN/WAN Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior LAN/WAN Engineer within the UK 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
England - 4 £75,000 -
Work from Home - 3 £75,000 -
London - 3 £75,000 -
Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
South East - 1 £65,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
UK excluding London - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior LAN/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 Senior LAN/WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (25.00%) Snow
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Mitel
4 1 (25.00%) Veeam
4 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Aruba
4 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) NetApp
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management

Senior LAN/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 1 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) PBX
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Mitel
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (25.00%) Snow
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam