SD-WAN Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 221 254
Rank change year-on-year -54 +33 +47
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 15 78 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.75% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.10% 6.62% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 56 34
10th Percentile £53,450 £52,500 £41,700
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,809 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,919 £85,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.36% +4.76% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,367 1,179 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.52% 11.40% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 435 895 655
10th Percentile £23,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,938 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,800 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +18 10 £62,500 -13.79% 43
Lancashire -67 3 £55,000 -31.11% 11
Merseyside +17 2 £80,000 +14.29% 9
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure AI
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) WAN
2 10 (66.67%) Firewall
3 8 (53.33%) DNS
4 6 (40.00%) Network Security
5 5 (33.33%) VPN
6 4 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (13.33%) DHCP
7 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (13.33%) SAN
7 2 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (13.33%) TACACS
8 1 (6.67%) BGP
8 1 (6.67%) Broadband
8 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
8 1 (6.67%) LAN
8 1 (6.67%) MPLS
8 1 (6.67%) OSPF
8 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
8 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Security Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Security Technical Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Zero Trust
2 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (20.00%) B2B
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) API Management
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Log Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) RBAC
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bicep
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (33.33%) CCNP
3 3 (20.00%) CCIE
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCSA
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (6.67%) CCNA
5 1 (6.67%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Meraki
2 4 (26.67%) Zscaler
3 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (13.33%) Databricks
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) Sophos
4 2 (13.33%) Synology
4 2 (13.33%) Veeam
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Aruba
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper