SD-WAN Jobs in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 331 408
Rank change year-on-year +3 +77 +265
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 73 175 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.77% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.83% 5.91% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 51 151 125
10th Percentile £61,250 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £94,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,904 2,960 3,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.59% 13.07% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,743 2,604
10th Percentile £31,750 £33,213 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £83,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -24.21% -5.47% -4.29%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in London.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the London region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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
Central London +10 14 £68,750 -5.17% 11
South London +4 2 £73,750 +19.10% 4
West London - 1 - - 13
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (57.53%) Azure
2 26 (35.62%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (10.96%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.22%) IaaS
6 5 (6.85%) GitHub
6 5 (6.85%) PaaS
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.11%) GCP
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 71 (97.26%) WAN
2 55 (75.34%) Firewall
3 38 (52.05%) VPN
4 36 (49.32%) LAN
5 33 (45.21%) MPLS
6 32 (43.84%) BGP
7 31 (42.47%) OSPF
8 26 (35.62%) WLAN
9 22 (30.14%) Wireless
10 20 (27.40%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (26.03%) IPsec
12 17 (23.29%) Network Security
13 15 (20.55%) Cisco ISE
14 14 (19.18%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (19.18%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (19.18%) NX-OS
14 14 (19.18%) VXLAN
15 8 (10.96%) BIG-IP
15 8 (10.96%) DNS
15 8 (10.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.37%) MySQL
1 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) GitLab
2 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 15 (20.55%) Finance
2 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.48%) Legal
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.74%) Local Government
6 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Aviation
7 1 (1.37%) Billing
7 1 (1.37%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Network Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Cisco Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Lead
4 9 (12.33%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Operations Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Consultant
7 5 (6.85%) Infoblox Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (6.85%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (6.85%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.85%) IT Support
8 4 (5.48%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) 802.1X
2 5 (6.85%) YAML
3 1 (1.37%) JSON
3 1 (1.37%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (39.73%) Data Centre
2 14 (19.18%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.22%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.85%) Mobile Computing
4 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.11%) PKI
5 3 (4.11%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Replication
6 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.37%) NHS
7 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.85%) Linux
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.03%) Change Management
2 14 (19.18%) Cloud Security
2 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (17.81%) ITIL
3 13 (17.81%) Process Improvement
4 12 (16.44%) Network Segmentation
5 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.33%) Incident Response
6 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.33%) Network Architecture
6 9 (12.33%) Runbook
7 8 (10.96%) Business Continuity
7 8 (10.96%) High Availability
8 7 (9.59%) Agile
8 7 (9.59%) Load Balancing
8 7 (9.59%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.22%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Python
2 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.22%) SQL
4 1 (1.37%) Bash
4 1 (1.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (26.03%) CCNP
3 12 (16.44%) Degree
4 10 (13.70%) CCNA
5 9 (12.33%) CCIE
6 6 (8.22%) CCSA
7 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
8 4 (5.48%) CCSE
9 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
11 1 (1.37%) CCDP
11 1 (1.37%) CEH
11 1 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.37%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.85%) NIST
2 4 (5.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.74%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.85%) Firmware
4 3 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.11%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) Terraform
2 9 (12.33%) Ansible
3 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.48%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.74%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.74%) ZENworks
6 1 (1.37%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (65.75%) Cisco
2 25 (34.25%) CheckPoint
3 24 (32.88%) Meraki
3 24 (32.88%) SolarWinds
4 19 (26.03%) Microsoft
4 19 (26.03%) Palo Alto
5 15 (20.55%) Fortinet
6 14 (19.18%) Dynatrace
7 13 (17.81%) VMware
8 12 (16.44%) F5
9 10 (13.70%) Infoblox
10 7 (9.59%) Citrix
10 7 (9.59%) Juniper
11 4 (5.48%) Dell
11 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
12 3 (4.11%) Aruba
12 3 (4.11%) Avaya
12 3 (4.11%) SevOne
13 2 (2.74%) EMC
13 2 (2.74%) SonicWALL