SD-WAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 393 467
Rank change year-on-year +6 +74 +74
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 175 427 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.61% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.27% 4.35% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 134 297 218
10th Percentile £40,150 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.35% +9.13%

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 5,346 9,815 11,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.52% 13.96% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,119 7,128 4,863
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,688 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Midlands +3 55 £52,500 +8.25% 19
West Midlands -32 40 £51,500 +6.19% 11
South East +68 37 £45,000 -18.18% 39
North of England +11 35 £57,500 -20.69% 26
South West +52 33 £52,500 +5.00% 9
North West -19 19 £53,000 -24.29% 12
East Midlands +56 15 £65,000 +85.71% 6
Yorkshire +43 15 £70,000 +12.00% 12
East of England +37 12 £56,250 +25.00% 7
Scotland +112 1 - - 6
Wales +45 1 - -
North East +42 1 £44,500 -44.26% 3
Isle of Man - 1 - -
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 105 (60.00%) Azure
2 51 (29.14%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (21.71%) AWS
4 25 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 22 (12.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (5.14%) SaaS
7 8 (4.57%) IaaS
8 7 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.29%) GitHub
10 4 (2.29%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.29%) Route 53
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.14%) GCP
11 2 (1.14%) PaaS
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.57%) Datadog
12 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 160 (91.43%) WAN
2 99 (56.57%) Firewall
3 58 (33.14%) Wi-Fi
4 50 (28.57%) LAN
5 41 (23.43%) Network Security
6 38 (21.71%) VPN
7 31 (17.71%) VLAN
8 26 (14.86%) BGP
9 25 (14.29%) MPLS
10 24 (13.71%) OSPF
11 18 (10.29%) 5G
11 18 (10.29%) DNS
12 16 (9.14%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (8.57%) TCP/IP
14 14 (8.00%) DHCP
14 14 (8.00%) Wireless
15 12 (6.86%) IPsec
16 11 (6.29%) Intrusion Detection
17 9 (5.14%) Cisco ISE
17 9 (5.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Git
1 4 (2.29%) LabVIEW
1 4 (2.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.57%) Electronics
4 14 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.71%) Tech for Good
6 9 (5.14%) Local Government
7 8 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.86%) Advertising
9 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.86%) Legal
9 5 (2.86%) Marketing
9 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.29%) Automotive
10 4 (2.29%) Finance
10 4 (2.29%) Police
10 4 (2.29%) Retail
10 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 44 (25.14%) Senior
3 30 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (10.86%) Support Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Infrastructure Manager
5 17 (9.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 15 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 15 (8.57%) Lead
7 13 (7.43%) 3rd Line Support
8 12 (6.86%) Consultant
9 10 (5.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Healthcare Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Programme Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Manager
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Programme Manager
9 10 (5.71%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.29%) pytest
2 3 (1.71%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.14%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (12.57%) Data Centre
3 16 (9.14%) Self-Driving Car
4 11 (6.29%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (5.14%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.86%) IoT
6 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.29%) GNSS
7 4 (2.29%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.71%) FMCG
8 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) PMI
8 3 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.71%) Replication
8 3 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.14%) Podcast
9 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.71%) Windows
2 20 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 19 (10.86%) Linux
4 10 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (4.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.29%) Unix
6 4 (2.29%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (20.57%) Network Monitoring
3 33 (18.86%) Migration
4 31 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 23 (13.14%) ITIL
7 23 (13.14%) Zero Trust
8 21 (12.00%) B2B
9 18 (10.29%) Business Continuity
9 18 (10.29%) Programme Management
10 17 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (9.71%) Load Balancing
10 17 (9.71%) Network Architecture
10 17 (9.71%) Project Delivery
11 16 (9.14%) Test Assurance
11 16 (9.14%) Test Automation
12 15 (8.57%) ITSM
12 15 (8.57%) Project Management
12 15 (8.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.57%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.29%) Python
3 8 (4.57%) SQL
4 4 (2.29%) C
4 4 (2.29%) C++
4 4 (2.29%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.57%) Bash
5 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (20.57%) CCNP
3 25 (14.29%) Degree
4 22 (12.57%) Security Cleared
5 19 (10.86%) SC Cleared
6 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.43%) CCIE
8 12 (6.86%) CCNA
9 8 (4.57%) Azure Certification
10 7 (4.00%) CCSA
11 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.29%) HND
12 4 (2.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.71%) PMI Certification
14 2 (1.14%) CISSP
15 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.57%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.57%) JNCIE
15 1 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.57%) PMO
2 7 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 5 (2.86%) GDPR
4 5 (2.86%) QA
5 4 (2.29%) ISO 9000
5 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (22.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.43%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.43%) Firmware
6 6 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.71%) DFS Replication
7 3 (1.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (10.29%) FortiGate
3 6 (3.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.43%) Terraform
3 6 (3.43%) WSUS
4 5 (2.86%) Ansible
5 4 (2.29%) SCCM
6 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.14%) ZENworks
8 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 87 (49.71%) Cisco
2 46 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 38 (21.71%) Fortinet
4 33 (18.86%) VMware
5 28 (16.00%) SolarWinds
6 26 (14.86%) Meraki
7 23 (13.14%) Palo Alto
8 19 (10.86%) Aruba
9 17 (9.71%) Citrix
10 16 (9.14%) Juniper
11 14 (8.00%) HP
11 14 (8.00%) Zscaler
12 11 (6.29%) CheckPoint
13 7 (4.00%) Avaya
14 5 (2.86%) ADVA
14 5 (2.86%) Draytek
14 5 (2.86%) Okta
14 5 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
15 4 (2.29%) Extreme Networks
15 4 (2.29%) Intel