SD-WAN Job Trends in Reading

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 69 90
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 -
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 2 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.34% 0.97% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.63% 8.64% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £56,875 - £55,500
25th Percentile £57,813 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £67,500
75th Percentile £65,313 - £78,750
90th Percentile £66,625 - £79,500
Berkshire median annual salary £61,250 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.95% -17.39% -20.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 81 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 12.97% 11.19% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 40 34 139
10th Percentile - £40,013 £33,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +6.15% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,813 £73,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.43% +9.52% -4.55%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Reading

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) HND
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft