SD-WAN Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 343 380
Rank change year-on-year -93 +37 +86
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 141 188 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.66% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.93% 4.02% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 120 133 295
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,900 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £64,677
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,302 4,675 9,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.14% 16.40% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,863 2,671 7,078
10th Percentile £26,400 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Midlands -46 50 £55,500 +5.71% 10
North of England -60 39 £60,000 +4.35% 28
West Midlands -38 38 £56,900 +10.48% 10
North West -13 26 £52,500 -2.78% 12
South West -63 20 £54,498 +3.80% 3
South East -41 17 £75,000 +66.67% 21
Yorkshire -55 13 £62,500 -10.71% 11
East Midlands -29 12 £35,000 -46.15%
Scotland -6 6 £75,000 - 3
East of England -16 4 £49,000 -12.89% 2
Wales -27 4 £75,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 -
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.17%) Azure
2 32 (22.70%) AWS
3 25 (17.73%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (12.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (5.67%) GitHub
6 7 (4.96%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.96%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.84%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.13%) IaaS
8 3 (2.13%) OCI
8 3 (2.13%) PaaS
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.42%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.42%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.42%) Serverless
9 2 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 140 (99.29%) WAN
2 75 (53.19%) Firewall
3 66 (46.81%) LAN
4 55 (39.01%) VPN
5 38 (26.95%) VLAN
6 35 (24.82%) Wireless
7 33 (23.40%) BGP
8 27 (19.15%) DNS
9 26 (18.44%) DHCP
9 26 (18.44%) MPLS
10 25 (17.73%) Network Security
11 20 (14.18%) TCP/IP
12 19 (13.48%) OSPF
13 16 (11.35%) Cisco ISE
14 14 (9.93%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (9.93%) WLAN
15 12 (8.51%) Cisco Wireless
16 11 (7.80%) VoIP
17 9 (6.38%) 5G
17 9 (6.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.67%) Git
1 8 (5.67%) LabVIEW
2 4 (2.84%) GitLab
General
1 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.38%) Retail
6 8 (5.67%) Electronics
7 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Finance
10 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Law
10 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.42%) Automotive
11 2 (1.42%) Marketing
11 2 (1.42%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (37.59%) Network Engineer
2 27 (19.15%) Senior
3 22 (15.60%) Senior Network Engineer
4 16 (11.35%) IT Support
5 14 (9.93%) IT Engineer
5 14 (9.93%) Support Engineer
6 13 (9.22%) Network Manager
7 12 (8.51%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Consultant
9 8 (5.67%) Cisco Consultant
9 8 (5.67%) Cisco Network Consultant
9 8 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Network Consultant
9 8 (5.67%) Product Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Product Test Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Verification Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) WAN Consultant
10 7 (4.96%) 1st Line Support Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) pytest
1 8 (5.67%) REST
2 4 (2.84%) ModSecurity
2 4 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (2.13%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.89%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.22%) Driving Licence
3 9 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.67%) Self-Driving Car
5 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.84%) CMDB
6 4 (2.84%) PKI
7 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.42%) BYOD
8 2 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.42%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Clustering
9 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) IoT
9 1 (0.71%) Replication
9 1 (0.71%) Social Media
9 1 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.28%) Windows
2 12 (8.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.67%) Unix
3 8 (5.67%) Windows 10
4 7 (4.96%) Windows 7
4 7 (4.96%) Windows 8
5 6 (4.26%) Linux
6 2 (1.42%) AIX
7 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (19.15%) Service Management
4 26 (18.44%) Root Cause Analysis
5 25 (17.73%) ITIL
5 25 (17.73%) ITSM
5 25 (17.73%) Network Monitoring
6 17 (12.06%) Migration
6 17 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (11.35%) Mentoring
8 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (10.64%) Kalman Filter
8 15 (10.64%) Service Delivery
9 14 (9.93%) Network Architecture
9 14 (9.93%) Validation
10 12 (8.51%) Logistics
10 12 (8.51%) Proactive Maintenance
10 12 (8.51%) Supplier Management
11 11 (7.80%) Process Improvement
11 11 (7.80%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.73%) Python
2 16 (11.35%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.67%) MATLAB
4 4 (2.84%) Bash
4 4 (2.84%) SQL
5 2 (1.42%) Bicep
6 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (29.08%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (23.40%) CCNP
3 31 (21.99%) Security Cleared
4 24 (17.02%) Degree
5 21 (14.89%) SC Cleared
6 11 (7.80%) CCNA
6 11 (7.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (5.67%) HND
9 6 (4.26%) CCIE
10 3 (2.13%) CISSP
10 3 (2.13%) DBS Check
10 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.71%) CCSP
12 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 7 (4.96%) QA
3 6 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.55%) SLA
5 4 (2.84%) NIST
6 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.80%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.38%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.96%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (2.84%) Firmware
6 4 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.84%) vSphere
7 3 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (15.60%) Ansible
1 22 (15.60%) FortiGate
2 9 (6.38%) Autotask
3 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (5.67%) SCCM
4 7 (4.96%) Terraform
5 5 (3.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.84%) WSUS
7 2 (1.42%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.42%) Nagios
7 2 (1.42%) Netcool
8 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 89 (63.12%) Cisco
2 44 (31.21%) Fortinet
3 37 (26.24%) Microsoft
4 20 (14.18%) SolarWinds
4 20 (14.18%) VMware
5 15 (10.64%) Meraki
5 15 (10.64%) Zscaler
6 14 (9.93%) Avaya
7 12 (8.51%) Aruba
8 11 (7.80%) Juniper
9 9 (6.38%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.96%) ESET
10 7 (4.96%) Google
11 4 (2.84%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.84%) Splunk
12 3 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (2.13%) HP
12 3 (2.13%) Huawei
12 3 (2.13%) Oracle
13 2 (1.42%) Ekahau