SD-WAN Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 95 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -24 +48
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 3 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.18% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 2.22% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £42,950 - -
25th Percentile £44,375 - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -40.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £52,125 - £75,000
90th Percentile £53,250 - -
East of England median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% +27.78% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 339 225 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 20.02% 18.72% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 97 125 111
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,350 £28,800
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £73,500 £79,500 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £51,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -22.33% +6.19% +14.12%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Watford - 2 £48,000 -
SD-WAN
East of England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) IPv4
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler