Software-Defined Networking Job Trends in Cheltenham

Software-Defined Networking
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.13% - 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.63% - 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £72,500 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,500 - £50,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

Software-Defined Networking falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 11 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.75% 8.27% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 28 4 43
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,700 £43,000
25th Percentile £44,063 £31,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £79,875 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +8.25% +14.12%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software-Defined Networking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware