SD-WAN Job Trends in England

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 377 336
Rank change year-on-year -38 -41 +185
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 297 282 665
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.72% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.62% 4.70% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 216 214 427
10th Percentile £38,984 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,506 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +0.92%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £97,425 £83,467
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -8.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,210 6,000 11,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.99% 15.28% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 3,381 8,501
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in England

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
London +46 155 £75,000 -6.25% 28
North of England -20 47 £65,000 +13.04% 31
Midlands -39 46 £55,500 +5.94% 11
West Midlands -46 35 £56,900 +10.48% 9
North West +17 30 £60,000 +4.35% 12
South East -41 18 £75,000 +66.67% 20
South West -71 18 £45,460 -9.08% 7
Yorkshire -35 17 £67,500 -10.00% 13
East Midlands -28 11 £35,000 -46.15% 2
East of England -21 4 £49,000 -12.89% 2
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (47.81%) Azure
2 86 (28.96%) AWS
3 42 (14.14%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (9.76%) GCP
5 23 (7.74%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 18 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (6.06%) SaaS
8 17 (5.72%) AWS Direct Connect
9 16 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (5.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (5.05%) OneDrive
11 14 (4.71%) Datadog
12 10 (3.37%) Nutanix
13 9 (3.03%) GitHub
14 8 (2.69%) Google Workspace
14 8 (2.69%) OCI
15 6 (2.02%) IaaS
16 5 (1.68%) PaaS
17 3 (1.01%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 289 (97.31%) WAN
2 179 (60.27%) Firewall
3 135 (45.45%) LAN
4 117 (39.39%) VPN
5 89 (29.97%) Network Security
6 76 (25.59%) Wireless
7 74 (24.92%) BGP
8 67 (22.56%) Cisco ISE
9 63 (21.21%) OSPF
10 54 (18.18%) DNS
11 53 (17.85%) MPLS
11 53 (17.85%) VLAN
12 48 (16.16%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (15.15%) WLAN
14 41 (13.80%) DHCP
15 35 (11.78%) TCP/IP
16 31 (10.44%) Cisco Wireless
17 30 (10.10%) VXLAN
18 28 (9.43%) Cisco Firepower
19 19 (6.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.70%) Git
2 9 (3.03%) LabVIEW
3 4 (1.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 67 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.79%) Finance
3 26 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.04%) Retail
7 11 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.03%) Electronics
9 9 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.69%) Legal
10 8 (2.69%) Retail Banking
11 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.02%) Banking
13 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.68%) Law
13 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.67%) Advertising
14 2 (0.67%) Automotive
14 2 (0.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 127 (42.76%) Network Engineer
2 55 (18.52%) Senior
3 46 (15.49%) Architect
4 39 (13.13%) Network Architect
5 34 (11.45%) Senior Network Engineer
6 26 (8.75%) Cisco Engineer
6 26 (8.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 26 (8.75%) Consultant
7 25 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (7.07%) Network Consultant
9 20 (6.73%) IT Engineer
10 15 (5.05%) Firewall Engineer
10 15 (5.05%) IT Support
10 15 (5.05%) Lead
11 14 (4.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (4.71%) Support Engineer
12 13 (4.38%) Network Operations Engineer
13 12 (4.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.38%) 802.1X
2 9 (3.03%) pytest
3 8 (2.69%) REST
4 4 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.67%) JSON
7 1 (0.34%) LDAP
7 1 (0.34%) Middleware
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (29.29%) Data Centre
2 20 (6.73%) PKI
3 17 (5.72%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.71%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.37%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (3.03%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.01%) Social Media
13 2 (0.67%) BYOD
13 2 (0.67%) iPad
13 2 (0.67%) iPhone
13 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.15%) Windows
2 24 (8.08%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.72%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.37%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.03%) Unix
6 8 (2.69%) Linux
7 7 (2.36%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.36%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.67%) AIX
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (16.50%) Service Management
3 48 (16.16%) ITIL
4 47 (15.82%) Network Monitoring
5 43 (14.48%) Zero Trust
6 41 (13.80%) Roadmaps
6 41 (13.80%) Service Delivery
7 38 (12.79%) Network Segmentation
8 35 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (11.78%) Root Cause Analysis
8 35 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
9 34 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (11.11%) Migration
10 33 (11.11%) Network Architecture
11 32 (10.77%) Kalman Filter
12 31 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (9.76%) ITSM
13 29 (9.76%) Presales
14 28 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 28 (9.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.15%) Python
2 14 (4.71%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.03%) MATLAB
4 5 (1.68%) SQL
5 4 (1.35%) Bicep
6 2 (0.67%) Bash
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (33.67%) Cisco Certification
2 84 (28.28%) CCNP
3 44 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 37 (12.46%) CCIE
5 32 (10.77%) Degree
6 28 (9.43%) SC Cleared
7 25 (8.42%) CCNA
8 22 (7.41%) Azure Certification
9 15 (5.05%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.70%) CISSP
11 10 (3.37%) AWS Certification
12 9 (3.03%) CCSA
12 9 (3.03%) CCSE
12 9 (3.03%) HND
13 8 (2.69%) CISA
13 8 (2.69%) CISM
14 7 (2.36%) CCIE Security
14 7 (2.36%) JNCIE
14 7 (2.36%) JNCIP
15 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.10%) NIST
2 25 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (7.41%) PCI DSS
4 18 (6.06%) GDPR
5 17 (5.72%) SLA
6 15 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 11 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (2.69%) QA
10 4 (1.35%) PMO
11 2 (0.67%) NCSC
12 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (13.13%) Active Directory
2 27 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.05%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.69%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.36%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (2.36%) vSphere
6 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.35%) Firmware
8 3 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.34%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (13.13%) Ansible
2 37 (12.46%) FortiGate
3 24 (8.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (7.74%) Terraform
5 14 (4.71%) SCCM
6 9 (3.03%) Autotask
6 9 (3.03%) CASB
6 9 (3.03%) Check_MK
6 9 (3.03%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.35%) WSUS
9 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.67%) Nagios
9 2 (0.67%) Netcool
9 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 183 (61.62%) Cisco
2 79 (26.60%) Fortinet
3 71 (23.91%) SolarWinds
4 69 (23.23%) Microsoft
5 62 (20.88%) Palo Alto
6 57 (19.19%) Meraki
7 33 (11.11%) VMware
8 32 (10.77%) CheckPoint
9 22 (7.41%) Juniper
10 19 (6.40%) F5
11 18 (6.06%) Aruba
12 16 (5.39%) Arista
12 16 (5.39%) Splunk
12 16 (5.39%) Zscaler
13 15 (5.05%) Dynatrace
14 14 (4.71%) Avaya
15 13 (4.38%) Infoblox
16 12 (4.04%) ForeScout
16 12 (4.04%) ServiceNow
16 12 (4.04%) SevOne