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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 516 673
Rank change year-on-year +144 +157 -96
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 733 525 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.42% 3.39% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 486 396 518
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £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 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +193 673 £55,000 +4.76% 124
UK excluding London +119 455 £50,000 - 80
Work from Home +122 354 £60,000 -10.72% 69
London +208 235 £60,000 -7.69% 52
Midlands +87 143 £48,500 +14.79% 18
West Midlands +96 131 £48,500 +14.79% 15
North of England +87 118 £72,500 +52.63% 19
South West +43 100 £50,250 +18.24% 10
South East +4 83 £56,250 +2.27% 16
North West +40 76 £70,000 +34.62% 6
Yorkshire +98 52 £63,750 +41.67% 13
East of England +4 35 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Scotland -47 20 £50,000 -38.46% 8
East Midlands -11 12 £39,750 -18.46% 3
North East -2 7 £79,842 +79.38%
Wales - 2 £35,000 - 1

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
1 114 (15.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.91%) 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 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.23%) 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 (36.56%) Azure
2 201 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
3 116 (15.83%) AWS
4 57 (7.78%) Entra ID
5 49 (6.68%) IaaS
6 45 (6.14%) PaaS
7 36 (4.91%) GCP
8 30 (4.09%) SaaS
9 11 (1.50%) Mimecast
9 11 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (1.36%) Nutanix
11 9 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.23%) GitHub
12 7 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
12 7 (0.95%) Azure API Management
12 7 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (0.95%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 668 (91.13%) WAN
2 307 (41.88%) Firewall
3 243 (33.15%) LAN
4 201 (27.42%) Wireless
5 148 (20.19%) MPLS
6 133 (18.14%) BGP
7 120 (16.37%) VPN
8 119 (16.23%) Wi-Fi
9 107 (14.60%) OSPF
10 93 (12.69%) DNS
11 92 (12.55%) Network Security
12 80 (10.91%) Cisco IOS
13 74 (10.10%) WLAN
14 72 (9.82%) WebEx
15 64 (8.73%) DHCP
16 63 (8.59%) VLAN
17 58 (7.91%) TCP/IP
18 54 (7.37%) Cisco Firepower
19 43 (5.87%) Cisco ISE
20 40 (5.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.55%) 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 (0.55%) JIRA
2 4 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.14%) LabVIEW
General
1 208 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 70 (9.55%) Finance
3 48 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (3.41%) Law
6 22 (3.00%) Retail
7 21 (2.86%) Electronics
8 17 (2.32%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.05%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.82%) Local Government
11 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.55%) Japanese Language
12 4 (0.55%) Legal
12 4 (0.55%) Police
12 4 (0.55%) Publishing
13 3 (0.41%) Billing
13 3 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 185 (25.24%) Network Engineer
2 143 (19.51%) Senior
3 125 (17.05%) Architect
4 95 (12.96%) Analyst
5 88 (12.01%) IT Support
6 82 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 74 (10.10%) IT Support Specialist
7 74 (10.10%) Support Specialist
8 71 (9.69%) Network Analyst
9 63 (8.59%) Senior Network Engineer
10 61 (8.32%) Security Architect
11 52 (7.09%) Lead
12 50 (6.82%) Operations Analyst
12 50 (6.82%) Senior Architect
13 49 (6.68%) Network Operations Analyst
14 42 (5.73%) Cisco Architect
14 42 (5.73%) Senior Cisco Architect
14 42 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (4.50%) Senior Security Architect
16 29 (3.96%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.46%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.23%) SAML
3 7 (0.95%) YAML
4 5 (0.68%) XMPP
5 4 (0.55%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) X-Windows
7 1 (0.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 147 (20.05%) Data Centre
2 83 (11.32%) Video Conferencing
3 72 (9.82%) Wiki
4 56 (7.64%) Management Information System
5 38 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 33 (4.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 31 (4.23%) Driving Licence
8 19 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.32%) GNSS
10 16 (2.18%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.91%) Replication
12 12 (1.64%) PMI
13 11 (1.50%) FPGA
14 10 (1.36%) PKI
15 9 (1.23%) 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
1 197 (26.88%) Windows
2 87 (11.87%) Windows 10
3 74 (10.10%) Android
3 74 (10.10%) Windows Server
4 65 (8.87%) Linux
5 20 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.55%) VMS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.27%) Unix
9 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 110 (15.01%) Cybersecurity
3 106 (14.46%) Project Delivery
4 105 (14.32%) Presales
5 100 (13.64%) Computer Science
6 82 (11.19%) Business Continuity
6 82 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (10.64%) Mobile Device Management
8 75 (10.23%) Contract Negotiation
9 73 (9.96%) BCP
10 72 (9.82%) Application Virtualisation
10 72 (9.82%) Business Continuity Planning
10 72 (9.82%) ITIL
11 66 (9.00%) Project Management
12 65 (8.87%) Mentoring
13 62 (8.46%) Information Security
14 58 (7.91%) Customer Engagement
15 54 (7.37%) Agile
16 52 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 52 (7.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (5.59%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.09%) SQL
3 16 (2.18%) C++
4 14 (1.91%) Python
5 12 (1.64%) MATLAB
6 8 (1.09%) C
6 8 (1.09%) Perl
6 8 (1.09%) Tcl
6 8 (1.09%) VB
7 4 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 248 (33.83%) Cisco Certification
2 173 (23.60%) Degree
3 165 (22.51%) CCNP
4 156 (21.28%) CCNA
5 81 (11.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (9.96%) Security Cleared
7 72 (9.82%) Master's Degree
8 52 (7.09%) SC Cleared
9 47 (6.41%) CCIE
10 42 (5.73%) Azure Certification
11 41 (5.59%) AWS Certification
12 36 (4.91%) CCDP
12 36 (4.91%) CISSP
13 34 (4.64%) CCSP
14 33 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (4.50%) CCSK
14 33 (4.50%) CISM
15 20 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
16 15 (2.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.91%) NIST
2 26 (3.55%) SLA
3 23 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 12 (1.64%) PMO
7 10 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (1.36%) QA
8 8 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.41%) JTAG
11 1 (0.14%) IASME
System Software
1 195 (26.60%) Active Directory
2 85 (11.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (10.23%) VMware ESXi
4 72 (9.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 72 (9.82%) XenApp
4 72 (9.82%) XenDesktop
5 66 (9.00%) Hyper-V
6 34 (4.64%) Docker
7 27 (3.68%) 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 (0.55%) pfSense
12 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (11.05%) SCCM
2 72 (9.82%) AirWatch
3 60 (8.19%) FortiGate
4 50 (6.82%) Kubernetes
5 44 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.77%) Terraform
8 31 (4.23%) Stealthwatch
9 23 (3.14%) Ansible
10 22 (3.00%) WSUS
11 17 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.18%) CASB
13 12 (1.64%) Opsgenie
13 12 (1.64%) VxRail
13 12 (1.64%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.68%) Nagios
16 4 (0.55%) BMC PATROL
16 4 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
17 3 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 428 (58.39%) Cisco
2 274 (37.38%) Microsoft
3 158 (21.56%) Meraki
4 117 (15.96%) VMware
5 108 (14.73%) Fortinet
6 92 (12.55%) Citrix
7 61 (8.32%) Juniper
8 55 (7.50%) SolarWinds
9 44 (6.00%) CheckPoint
10 42 (5.73%) Adobe
10 42 (5.73%) Apple
11 36 (4.91%) Palo Alto
12 34 (4.64%) Aruba
13 28 (3.82%) NetApp
14 22 (3.00%) Dell
15 21 (2.86%) F5
16 15 (2.05%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.77%) Draytek
18 10 (1.36%) HP
19 9 (1.23%) Veeam