Software-Defined Networking Jobs

Software-Defined Networking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 900 1102
Rank change year-on-year +62 +202 -273
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 56 81 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.080% 0.076%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.51% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46 48 71
10th Percentile £39,375 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +33.33% +5.71%
75th Percentile £70,044 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,531 15,733 21,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.59% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,431 7,998 11,720
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £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 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -3.23% +3.33%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking.

Salary trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
UK excluding London +10 56 £52,500 - 12
England +72 53 £52,500 -5.83% 9
North of England +51 24 £47,500 -9.25% 1
South West -36 20 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Work from Home +33 15 £50,000 -37.50% 9
Yorkshire +87 11 £42,500 -18.55% 1
North West +11 11 £52,500 -
East of England +24 6 £52,500 -6.67% 1
Midlands -4 3 £65,050 -27.72% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £65,000 -
West Midlands +12 2 £70,025 -22.19% 1
North East -3 2 £39,000 +1.30%
East Midlands - 1 £51,700 -

Software-Defined Networking
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 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