SD-WAN Job Trends in North Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +37
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 4 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in North Yorkshire 0.99% 0.97% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.71% 11.29% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £26,100 - -
25th Percentile £27,000 £45,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £47,500
90th Percentile £66,000 £56,500 £53,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £26,000 £63,750 £51,250
% change year-on-year -59.22% +24.39% +13.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 62 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 17.24% 8.61% 17.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 37 51
10th Percentile - £23,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% - -
75th Percentile £30,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £41,125 £65,000 £63,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -32.22% +7.14% -6.67%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in North Yorkshire

SD-WAN
Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Harrogate - 3 £27,500 - 2
SD-WAN
Yorkshire

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) ADSL
3 2 (50.00%) IPv4
3 2 (50.00%) IPv6
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VoIP
3 2 (50.00%) WebEx
4 1 (25.00%) Broadband
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) Huawei
3 2 (50.00%) Polycom
4 1 (25.00%) Aruba