Software-Defined Networking Job Trends in Edinburgh

Software-Defined Networking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 98 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.30% 0.33% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.03% 3.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71,500 - -
25th Percentile £71,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 - -
75th Percentile £83,375 - -
90th Percentile £84,500 - -
Scotland median annual salary £77,000 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 99 109 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.85% 9.07% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 58 51 106
10th Percentile £26,255 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +31.25% -29.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £74,144 £61,563
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £72,433
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -41.05%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Software-Defined Networking
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software-Defined Networking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
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 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) People Management
1 3 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk