SD-WAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 17 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 185 237
Rank change year-on-year +11 +52 +4
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 10 18 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 3.38% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 15
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,200 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,563 £50,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -20.14% +42.57%
75th Percentile £73,000 £78,750 £81,625
90th Percentile £87,550 £82,500 £93,500
South East median annual salary £77,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.91% -15.38% +18.18%

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 468 532 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.74% 11.89% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 214 441 542
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 January 2025.

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 17 January 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
Berkshire +31 8 £47,500 -17.39% 4
Oxfordshire 0 2 £67,000 +91.43% 1
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 4 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (40.00%) Sourcefire
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Network Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (10.00%) Housing Association
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CCNA
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 4 (40.00%) Aruba
3 4 (40.00%) Blue Coat
3 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 4 (40.00%) F5
3 4 (40.00%) Juniper
3 4 (40.00%) McAfee
3 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (40.00%) Zscaler
4 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) VMware