SD-WAN Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 188 160
Rank change year-on-year +24 -28 +16
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 30 16 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.42% 0.40% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.40% 2.79% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £35,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -31.30% +24.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,250 £82,500
90th Percentile - £81,375 -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -28.03% +25.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 469 574 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.63% 14.49% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 362 269 345
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,300 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
Oxfordshire -19 13 £72,500 +61.11% 1
Buckinghamshire +9 9 £43,750 +45.83% 2
Berkshire +20 8 £57,500 +21.05% 2
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (100.00%) WAN
2 25 (83.33%) Network Security
2 25 (83.33%) VPN
3 15 (50.00%) Firewall
3 15 (50.00%) LAN
3 15 (50.00%) VLAN
4 13 (43.33%) BGP
4 13 (43.33%) DHCP
4 13 (43.33%) DNS
5 10 (33.33%) FTP
5 10 (33.33%) HTTP
5 10 (33.33%) ICMP
5 10 (33.33%) IPsec
5 10 (33.33%) MPLS
5 10 (33.33%) SNMP
5 10 (33.33%) SSH
5 10 (33.33%) SSL
5 10 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (33.33%) Wireless
6 5 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 8 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Architect
1 15 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 10 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 10 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Network Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Network Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) OAuth
1 10 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 10 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (30.00%) Presales
3 6 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 5 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
4 5 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 5 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (6.67%) Network Design
6 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (26.67%) CCNP
3 5 (16.67%) CCNA
3 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (33.33%) NIST
2 5 (16.67%) NCSC
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) FortiGate
2 10 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Cisco
2 20 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (36.67%) Fortinet
5 7 (23.33%) Aruba
6 5 (16.67%) Juniper
6 5 (16.67%) VMware
7 4 (13.33%) BT
8 2 (6.67%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (6.67%) WatchGuard