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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 178 167
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +83
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 5 23 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.38% 4.25% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 14
10th Percentile - £44,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £58,438 £35,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +30.35% -12.61%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £91,500 £82,500 £69,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £77,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -32.26% +47.62% -19.23%

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 363 541 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.09% 12.56% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 244 256 426
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £35,425
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £77,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +3.32%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -8 4 £47,250 -40.94% 2
Oxfordshire +22 1 £100,000 +53.85% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) DMZ
4 1 (20.00%) DWDM
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) WAN Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) HND
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (20.00%) MCSA
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto