Software-Defined Networking Job Trends in Scotland

Software-Defined Networking
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 157 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 5 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.19% 0.085% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.83% 0.92% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - -
75th Percentile £77,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +19.05% -34.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

Software-Defined Networking 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 273 327 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.55% 9.21% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 155 160 453
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,625 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £53,750 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.19% +91.96% -41.05%
75th Percentile £37,875 £67,500 £53,000
90th Percentile £69,600 £80,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £39,500 £51,500 £51,300
% change year-on-year -23.30% +0.39% -2.29%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software-Defined Networking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Scotland

Software-Defined Networking
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Software-Defined Networking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Edinburgh +15 5 £74,500 -
Software-Defined Networking
UK

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) NX-OS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) VMware