SD-WAN Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 16 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.56% - 0.098%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.33% - 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £39,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.61%
75th Percentile - - £39,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

SD-WAN 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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 108 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.57% 9.17% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59 50 109
10th Percentile £26,337 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,313 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £49,254 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.05% +23.13% -29.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £74,144 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £86,000 £78,172
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 16 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
1 16 (100.00%) LAN
1 16 (100.00%) WAN
1 16 (100.00%) Wireless
1 16 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 16 (100.00%) Finance
1 16 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 16 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Network Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Network Support
2 4 (25.00%) Network Support Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 16 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 16 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 16 (100.00%) Change Management
1 16 (100.00%) Coaching
1 16 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 16 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 16 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 16 (100.00%) Network Planning
1 16 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 16 (100.00%) Problem Management
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
1 16 (100.00%) Meraki
1 16 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 16 (100.00%) SolarWinds