Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 511 671
Rank change year-on-year +147 +160 -85
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 735 532 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.46% 3.41% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 484 401 509
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.87% -4.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SD-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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,460 15,589 21,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.83% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,833 11,758
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +207 674 £55,000 +4.76% 127
UK excluding London +120 446 £50,000 - 88
Work from Home +105 346 £60,000 -12.09% 56
London +196 245 £60,000 -7.69% 58
Midlands +76 140 £48,500 +13.45% 19
West Midlands +87 129 £48,500 +13.45% 14
North of England +76 116 £72,500 +52.63% 17
South West +54 100 £50,000 +17.65% 7
South East +8 79 £55,000 - 30
North West +33 74 £70,000 +34.62% 6
Yorkshire +99 52 £63,750 +41.67% 11
East of England +16 35 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Scotland -48 20 £50,000 -38.46% 9
East Midlands -3 11 £35,000 -28.21% 3
North East -2 7 £79,842 +79.38%
Wales - 2 £35,000 -

SD-WAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 124 (16.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.90%) IIS
4 8 (1.09%) CMS
4 8 (1.09%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 268 (36.46%) Azure
2 211 (28.71%) Microsoft 365
3 116 (15.78%) AWS
4 57 (7.76%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.80%) IaaS
6 46 (6.26%) PaaS
7 36 (4.90%) GCP
8 31 (4.22%) SaaS
9 12 (1.63%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.50%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.22%) GitHub
12 9 (1.22%) Nutanix
13 7 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
13 7 (0.95%) Azure API Management
13 7 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (0.95%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 670 (91.16%) WAN
2 301 (40.95%) Firewall
3 240 (32.65%) LAN
4 208 (28.30%) Wireless
5 147 (20.00%) MPLS
6 134 (18.23%) BGP
7 118 (16.05%) VPN
8 116 (15.78%) Wi-Fi
9 108 (14.69%) OSPF
10 94 (12.79%) DNS
11 90 (12.24%) Cisco IOS
12 89 (12.11%) Network Security
13 82 (11.16%) WebEx
14 74 (10.07%) WLAN
15 64 (8.71%) DHCP
16 62 (8.44%) VLAN
17 58 (7.89%) TCP/IP
18 51 (6.94%) Cisco Firepower
19 44 (5.99%) Cisco ISE
20 40 (5.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.54%) Big Data
5 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.95%) GitLab
1 7 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
2 4 (0.54%) JIRA
2 4 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.14%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 217 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 71 (9.66%) Finance
3 47 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (3.54%) Law
6 23 (3.13%) Retail
7 21 (2.86%) Electronics
8 18 (2.45%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.04%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.82%) Local Government
13 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.54%) Japanese Language
14 4 (0.54%) Legal
14 4 (0.54%) Marketing
14 4 (0.54%) Police
14 4 (0.54%) Publishing
15 3 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 181 (24.63%) Network Engineer
2 137 (18.64%) Senior
3 121 (16.46%) Architect
4 98 (13.33%) IT Support
5 95 (12.93%) Analyst
6 84 (11.43%) IT Support Specialist
6 84 (11.43%) Support Specialist
7 82 (11.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 71 (9.66%) Network Analyst
9 59 (8.03%) Senior Network Engineer
10 58 (7.89%) Security Architect
11 52 (7.07%) Lead
12 50 (6.80%) Operations Analyst
13 49 (6.67%) Network Operations Analyst
14 47 (6.39%) Senior Architect
15 41 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (5.31%) Cisco Architect
16 39 (5.31%) Senior Cisco Architect
17 30 (4.08%) Senior Security Architect
18 29 (3.95%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.45%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.22%) SAML
3 7 (0.95%) YAML
4 5 (0.68%) XMPP
5 4 (0.54%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) X-Windows
7 1 (0.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 143 (19.46%) Data Centre
2 93 (12.65%) Video Conferencing
3 82 (11.16%) Wiki
4 56 (7.62%) Management Information System
5 38 (5.17%) Public Cloud
6 33 (4.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 31 (4.22%) Driving Licence
8 19 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.45%) GNSS
10 16 (2.18%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.90%) Replication
12 12 (1.63%) PMI
13 11 (1.50%) FPGA
14 10 (1.36%) PKI
15 9 (1.22%) Clustering
16 8 (1.09%) Client/Server
16 8 (1.09%) MicroBlaze
16 8 (1.09%) Operational Technology
16 8 (1.09%) Robotics
16 8 (1.09%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 207 (28.16%) Windows
2 97 (13.20%) Windows 10
3 84 (11.43%) Android
4 74 (10.07%) Windows Server
5 66 (8.98%) Linux
6 20 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.54%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.27%) Unix
10 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (15.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 111 (15.10%) Computer Science
3 108 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
4 105 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 102 (13.88%) Presales
6 92 (12.52%) Business Continuity
7 88 (11.97%) Mobile Device Management
8 85 (11.56%) Contract Negotiation
9 83 (11.29%) BCP
10 82 (11.16%) Application Virtualisation
10 82 (11.16%) Business Continuity Planning
10 82 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (9.66%) ITIL
12 67 (9.12%) Project Management
13 64 (8.71%) Mentoring
14 62 (8.44%) Information Security
15 55 (7.48%) Customer Engagement
16 53 (7.21%) Agile
17 52 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
18 49 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.08%) SQL
3 17 (2.31%) C++
4 15 (2.04%) Python
5 12 (1.63%) MATLAB
6 9 (1.22%) Perl
7 8 (1.09%) C
7 8 (1.09%) Tcl
7 8 (1.09%) VB
8 4 (0.54%) C#
9 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 244 (33.20%) Cisco Certification
2 181 (24.63%) Degree
3 162 (22.04%) CCNP
4 154 (20.95%) CCNA
5 91 (12.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 82 (11.16%) Master's Degree
7 70 (9.52%) Security Cleared
8 51 (6.94%) SC Cleared
9 45 (6.12%) CCIE
10 42 (5.71%) Azure Certification
11 41 (5.58%) AWS Certification
12 36 (4.90%) CCDP
12 36 (4.90%) CISSP
13 34 (4.63%) CCSP
14 33 (4.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (4.49%) CCSK
14 33 (4.49%) CISM
15 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (2.04%) PMI Certification
17 14 (1.90%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.90%) NIST
2 25 (3.40%) SLA
3 23 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 13 (1.77%) PMO
6 10 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (1.36%) QA
7 8 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.41%) JTAG
10 1 (0.14%) IASME
System Software
1 205 (27.89%) Active Directory
2 85 (11.56%) VMware ESXi
3 83 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 82 (11.16%) Microsoft App-V
4 82 (11.16%) XenApp
4 82 (11.16%) XenDesktop
5 65 (8.84%) Hyper-V
6 34 (4.63%) Docker
7 27 (3.67%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.18%) Firmware
9 8 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.82%) vSphere
11 4 (0.54%) pfSense
12 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 91 (12.38%) SCCM
2 82 (11.16%) AirWatch
3 59 (8.03%) FortiGate
4 50 (6.80%) Kubernetes
5 44 (5.99%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.76%) Terraform
8 28 (3.81%) Stealthwatch
9 23 (3.13%) Ansible
10 22 (2.99%) WSUS
11 17 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.18%) CASB
13 12 (1.63%) Opsgenie
13 12 (1.63%) VxRail
13 12 (1.63%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.68%) Nagios
16 4 (0.54%) BMC PATROL
16 4 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
17 3 (0.41%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 430 (58.50%) Cisco
2 282 (38.37%) Microsoft
3 153 (20.82%) Meraki
4 116 (15.78%) VMware
5 104 (14.15%) Fortinet
6 102 (13.88%) Citrix
7 60 (8.16%) Juniper
8 54 (7.35%) SolarWinds
9 42 (5.71%) CheckPoint
10 39 (5.31%) Adobe
10 39 (5.31%) Apple
11 34 (4.63%) Palo Alto
12 33 (4.49%) Aruba
13 28 (3.81%) NetApp
14 22 (2.99%) Dell
15 20 (2.72%) F5
16 15 (2.04%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.77%) Draytek
18 8 (1.09%) Green Hills
18 8 (1.09%) Xilinx