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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 199 235
Rank change year-on-year +35 +36 +23
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 16 47 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.70% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.96% 4.90% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14 27 27
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,438 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £53,250 £78,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £85,825 £80,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%

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 541 959 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.13% 14.28% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 218 677 531
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,563 £34,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,375 £69,700 £74,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +32 8 £47,500 -32.14% 11
Oxfordshire +31 5 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +23 3 £30,000 -7.69% 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 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure AI
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (50.00%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 5 (31.25%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (18.75%) DNS
4 3 (18.75%) MPLS
5 2 (12.50%) 4G
5 2 (12.50%) 5G
5 2 (12.50%) DMZ
5 2 (12.50%) DWDM
5 2 (12.50%) Internet
5 2 (12.50%) LAN
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) BGP
6 1 (6.25%) OSPF
6 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Advertising
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) WAN Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Sales Representative
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
2 2 (12.50%) NHS
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) B2B
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) API Management
3 2 (12.50%) B2B Sales
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Edge Virtualization
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Log Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) RBAC
3 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM
3 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bicep
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 9000
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (12.50%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Meraki
3 4 (25.00%) Juniper
4 3 (18.75%) ADVA
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (12.50%) ConnectWise
5 2 (12.50%) Databricks
6 1 (6.25%) Fortinet