Software-Defined Networking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Networking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Software-Defined Networking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 701 710 785
Rank change year-on-year +9 +75 -131
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 56 51 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.085% 0.090%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.57% 0.47% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 46 19 33
10th Percentile £39,375 £42,500 £34,668
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,044 £67,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £66,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -34.38% +33.33% +5.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Software-Defined Networking 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,769 10,906 10,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.13% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,776 6,432
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,886 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Networking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Networking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Networking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +66 24 £47,500 -9.25% 1
South West -31 20 £80,000 +77.78% 2
Yorkshire +95 11 £42,500 -18.55% 1
North West +20 11 £52,500 -
East of England +24 6 £52,500 -6.67% 2
Midlands -8 3 £65,050 -27.72% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £65,000 -
West Midlands +13 2 £70,025 -22.19% 1
North East -3 2 £39,000 +1.30%
East Midlands - 1 £51,700 -
Software-Defined Networking
UK

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (10.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.79%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) AWS
2 13 (23.21%) Azure
3 12 (21.43%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) OCI
5 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.36%) IaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (39.29%) Wireless
2 19 (33.93%) WAN
3 15 (26.79%) Firewall
4 14 (25.00%) Network Security
5 13 (23.21%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (23.21%) LAN
6 11 (19.64%) WLAN
7 8 (14.29%) NGFW
7 8 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 8 (14.29%) VLAN
8 7 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (10.71%) VPN
10 5 (8.93%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (8.93%) Cisco Wireless
10 5 (8.93%) Unified Communications
11 4 (7.14%) Internet
12 1 (1.79%) DHCP
12 1 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
General
1 13 (23.21%) Aerospace
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
2 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 33 (58.93%) Network Engineer
2 17 (30.36%) Senior
3 14 (25.00%) Architect
4 13 (23.21%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (10.71%) Network Systems Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Security Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 4 (7.14%) Lead
8 4 (7.14%) Network Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Network Security Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Security Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Team Leader
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
1 1 (1.79%) JSON
1 1 (1.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.71%) CCTV
3 5 (8.93%) PropTech
3 5 (8.93%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) IoT
5 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Debian
2 6 (10.71%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) Network Architecture
2 18 (32.14%) Cloud Security
3 16 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (19.64%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (19.64%) Network Monitoring
4 11 (19.64%) Roadmaps
5 9 (16.07%) Agile
5 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 7 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.50%) Data Centre Operations
8 6 (10.71%) Auto-Scaling
8 6 (10.71%) Bayesian Methods
8 6 (10.71%) Configuration Management
8 6 (10.71%) DevOps
8 6 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (10.71%) ITIL
8 6 (10.71%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Shell Script
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 2 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.93%) DV Cleared
3 15 (26.79%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (17.86%) CCNP
5 5 (8.93%) CCIE
5 5 (8.93%) CCNA
6 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (44.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Ansible
1 6 (10.71%) ZABBIX
2 5 (8.93%) Cisco Prime
2 5 (8.93%) Opsview
2 5 (8.93%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Kibana
3 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (62.50%) Cisco
2 25 (44.64%) VMware
3 17 (30.36%) Palo Alto
4 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
5 6 (10.71%) Google
5 6 (10.71%) Oracle
5 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
6 5 (8.93%) Meraki
7 2 (3.57%) Aruba
8 1 (1.79%) Solace
8 1 (1.79%) TIBCO