SD-WAN Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 270 349
Rank change year-on-year -21 +79 +33
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 38 109 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 5.04% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23 85 74
10th Percentile £40,550 £48,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £47,125 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +52.63% -15.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £63,766
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,919 £81,750
England median annual salary £64,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.27% - -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,773 2,164 3,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.59% 12.39% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 884 1,659 1,262
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,975 £26,025
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -1.64%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West -37 21 £54,000 -22.86% 18
Yorkshire +31 16 £70,000 +12.00% 16
North East +44 1 £44,500 -44.26% 3
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (23.68%) AWS
4 7 (18.42%) SaaS
5 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 6 (15.79%) IaaS
6 5 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (10.53%) Azure AI
7 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (10.53%) PaaS
7 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
7 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.26%) GCP
8 2 (5.26%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (86.84%) WAN
2 31 (81.58%) Firewall
3 13 (34.21%) Network Security
4 12 (31.58%) DNS
4 12 (31.58%) VPN
5 9 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (21.05%) LAN
7 6 (15.79%) BGP
7 6 (15.79%) MPLS
7 6 (15.79%) OSPF
7 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
7 6 (15.79%) Wireless
8 5 (13.16%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (13.16%) DHCP
8 5 (13.16%) WebEx
9 4 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (7.89%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (7.89%) IPsec
10 3 (7.89%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (7.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
1 4 (10.53%) MySQL
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Law
2 2 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Network Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Network Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Network Security Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Security Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Security Technical Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Technical Security Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) 802.1X
1 2 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Data Centre
1 7 (18.42%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.16%) Public Cloud
3 4 (10.53%) NHS
4 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (7.89%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (5.26%) Replication
6 1 (2.63%) Clustering
6 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Migration
2 9 (23.68%) Project Delivery
2 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
3 8 (21.05%) ITIL
3 8 (21.05%) Line Management
3 8 (21.05%) Project Management
3 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) B2B
4 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
4 7 (18.42%) Network Architecture
4 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) ITSM
5 6 (15.79%) TOGAF
5 6 (15.79%) Zero Trust
6 5 (13.16%) DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) High Availability
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (13.16%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
1 9 (23.68%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Bicep
2 4 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (31.58%) CCNP
3 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.53%) CCNA
4 4 (10.53%) CCSA
4 4 (10.53%) DBS Check
5 3 (7.89%) CCIE
6 2 (5.26%) CISSP
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.63%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) GDPR
1 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) PMO
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (13.16%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.26%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) FortiGate
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (13.16%) WSUS
5 4 (10.53%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (50.00%) Cisco
2 15 (39.47%) Meraki
3 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
4 12 (31.58%) VMware
5 6 (15.79%) Zscaler
6 5 (13.16%) Draytek
6 5 (13.16%) Fortinet
6 5 (13.16%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
7 4 (10.53%) Databricks
7 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
8 3 (7.89%) Sophos
8 3 (7.89%) Synology
8 3 (7.89%) Veeam
9 2 (5.26%) Aderant
9 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.63%) Aruba
10 1 (2.63%) Juniper
10 1 (2.63%) SonicWALL