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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 220 249
Rank change year-on-year -49 +29 +38
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 20 71 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.72% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 6.15% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13 52 38
10th Percentile £40,650 £55,000 £42,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £56,809 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +34.62% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £71,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £84,919 £85,600
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +18.18% +1.38% -7.08%

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 1,188 1,155 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.84% 11.71% 20.51%
Number of salaries quoted 461 876 674
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £73,323
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 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 12 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 12 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 +24 12 £57,500 -20.69% 13
Merseyside +25 4 £42,500 -32.00%
Lancashire -66 4 £54,000 -32.37% 7
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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (20.00%) IaaS
4 4 (20.00%) SaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) WAN
2 14 (70.00%) Firewall
3 10 (50.00%) DNS
4 7 (35.00%) Network Security
5 6 (30.00%) VPN
6 5 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (25.00%) DHCP
7 3 (15.00%) LAN
7 3 (15.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (15.00%) SAN
7 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (10.00%) Broadband
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (10.00%) IPsec
8 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (10.00%) SNMP
8 2 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (10.00%) TACACS
8 2 (10.00%) VSAN
9 1 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Security Technical Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Security Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) 802.1X
1 2 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) NHS
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Project Management
2 6 (30.00%) Zero Trust
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) B2B
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Network Design
5 3 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
6 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Statistics
6 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (35.00%) CCNP
3 3 (15.00%) CCIE
3 3 (15.00%) CCNA
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.00%) CCSA
4 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (10.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (35.00%) Meraki
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (15.00%) Sophos
5 3 (15.00%) Synology
5 3 (15.00%) Veeam
5 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
6 2 (10.00%) Aderant
6 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (10.00%) Databricks
6 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.00%) Aruba
7 1 (5.00%) Juniper