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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 388 482
Rank change year-on-year -15 +94 +51
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 184 436 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.61% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.83% 4.46% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 130 296 217
10th Percentile £39,925 £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 £65,603 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,063
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.43% +2.88%

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 6,512 9,781 10,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.62% 13.77% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,185 7,086 4,783
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 13 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 13 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 -5 59 £52,500 +8.25% 25
West Midlands -35 42 £51,500 +6.19% 14
South East +58 38 £45,000 -18.18% 45
North of England -22 36 £57,500 -20.69% 36
South West +62 35 £52,500 +5.00% 10
North West -39 20 £55,000 -21.43% 18
East Midlands +42 17 £65,000 +85.71% 9
Yorkshire +41 15 £70,000 +12.00% 16
East of England +21 13 £56,250 +25.00% 3
Scotland +104 1 - - 5
North East +39 1 £44,500 -44.26% 3
Wales +38 1 - - 1
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 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 117 (63.59%) Azure
2 53 (28.80%) AWS
3 49 (26.63%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (20.65%) Entra ID
5 22 (11.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (11.96%) SaaS
6 21 (11.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 21 (11.41%) IaaS
7 16 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (8.70%) PaaS
8 14 (7.61%) Azure AI
8 14 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (7.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (7.61%) Power Automate
8 14 (7.61%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.17%) GitHub
10 4 (2.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 170 (92.39%) WAN
2 106 (57.61%) Firewall
3 55 (29.89%) Wi-Fi
4 49 (26.63%) LAN
5 46 (25.00%) VPN
6 39 (21.20%) Network Security
7 33 (17.93%) DNS
8 31 (16.85%) VLAN
9 25 (13.59%) BGP
9 25 (13.59%) MPLS
10 23 (12.50%) OSPF
11 19 (10.33%) 5G
12 16 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (8.15%) TCP/IP
14 14 (7.61%) DHCP
15 12 (6.52%) Wireless
16 10 (5.43%) Intrusion Detection
17 9 (4.89%) VoIP
18 8 (4.35%) EIGRP
18 8 (4.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.61%) Data Lake
1 14 (7.61%) MySQL
1 14 (7.61%) Power BI
2 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (9.78%) Git
2 4 (2.17%) LabVIEW
2 4 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.15%) Electronics
3 15 (8.15%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (5.43%) Tech for Good
5 8 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.26%) Local Government
8 5 (2.72%) Advertising
8 5 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.72%) Marketing
8 5 (2.72%) Retail
9 4 (2.17%) Automotive
9 4 (2.17%) Finance
9 4 (2.17%) Legal
9 4 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.63%) Law
10 3 (1.63%) Police
11 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (26.63%) Network Engineer
2 40 (21.74%) Senior
3 29 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.87%) Architect
5 19 (10.33%) Support Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) Infrastructure Manager
6 17 (9.24%) Senior Network Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) Lead
8 15 (8.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (7.07%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (5.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Microsoft 365 Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Programme Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Senior Manager
11 10 (5.43%) Senior Programme Manager
11 10 (5.43%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.17%) pytest
2 3 (1.63%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.02%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.78%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (9.24%) Self-Driving Car
4 14 (7.61%) NHS
5 10 (5.43%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (4.89%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.72%) IoT
8 4 (2.17%) GNSS
8 4 (2.17%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.63%) FMCG
9 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.63%) PMI
9 3 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.09%) Podcast
10 2 (1.09%) Replication
10 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.28%) Windows
2 20 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.70%) Linux
4 9 (4.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.17%) Unix
6 4 (2.17%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (25.00%) Migration
3 36 (19.57%) ITIL
3 36 (19.57%) Network Monitoring
4 35 (19.02%) B2B
5 30 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (15.76%) Agile
7 28 (15.22%) Project Management
8 27 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (13.04%) Service Management
9 24 (13.04%) Zero Trust
10 22 (11.96%) Mentoring
10 22 (11.96%) Waterfall
11 21 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (11.41%) Roadmaps
12 19 (10.33%) DevOps
12 19 (10.33%) Network Virtualisation
13 18 (9.78%) Business Continuity
13 18 (9.78%) Programme Management
14 17 (9.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.02%) PowerShell
2 22 (11.96%) SQL
3 14 (7.61%) Bicep
4 13 (7.07%) Python
5 5 (2.72%) C++
5 5 (2.72%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.17%) C
7 1 (0.54%) Bash
7 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (21.20%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (19.02%) CCNP
3 25 (13.59%) Degree
4 22 (11.96%) Azure Certification
4 22 (11.96%) Security Cleared
5 19 (10.33%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.61%) DBS Check
6 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.07%) CCIE
8 10 (5.43%) CCNA
9 7 (3.80%) CCSA
10 5 (2.72%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.17%) HND
11 4 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.63%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.09%) CISSP
14 1 (0.54%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.54%) JNCIE
14 1 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.61%) PMO
2 6 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 6 (3.26%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.72%) GDPR
3 5 (2.72%) QA
4 4 (2.17%) ISO 9000
4 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.54%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (20.11%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.72%) Firmware
7 3 (1.63%) vSphere
8 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.70%) FortiGate
2 16 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (3.26%) Ansible
3 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.26%) Terraform
4 5 (2.72%) WSUS
5 4 (2.17%) SCCM
6 2 (1.09%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 85 (46.20%) Cisco
2 43 (23.37%) Microsoft
3 39 (21.20%) Fortinet
3 39 (21.20%) Meraki
4 31 (16.85%) VMware
5 28 (15.22%) SolarWinds
6 23 (12.50%) Palo Alto
7 18 (9.78%) Aruba
8 17 (9.24%) Citrix
9 15 (8.15%) Juniper
10 14 (7.61%) Databricks
10 14 (7.61%) HP
10 14 (7.61%) Zscaler
11 11 (5.98%) CheckPoint
12 7 (3.80%) Avaya
13 5 (2.72%) ADVA
13 5 (2.72%) Draytek
13 5 (2.72%) Okta
13 5 (2.72%) Ubiquiti
14 4 (2.17%) Extreme Networks