Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 302 517 754
Rank change year-on-year +215 +237 -236
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 553 703 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.57% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.91% 4.61% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 378 571 307
10th Percentile £39,588 £34,335 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,375 £45,000 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SD-WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,005 15,255 16,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 12.42% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 10,353 11,511
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +273 510 £55,000 +4.76% 132
UK excluding London +207 262 £52,000 +4.00% 81
London +260 254 £65,000 +17.65% 53
Work from Home +149 233 £55,000 -15.38% 66
South West +109 76 £49,500 +11.24% 11
Midlands +145 68 £48,500 -1.52% 18
South East +130 58 £52,500 -19.23% 26
North of England +121 56 £52,500 +16.67% 20
West Midlands +130 43 £47,000 -1.05% 15
North West +114 27 £58,500 +14.15% 9
Yorkshire +90 25 £47,500 +5.56% 10
East Midlands +63 25 £55,000 - 3
East of England +89 6 £60,000 +26.32% 3
North East +42 6 £65,000 +58.54% 1
Scotland +36 6 £52,500 -30.00% 3
Wales +14 4 £62,500 +45.32% 1
Northern Ireland +36 1 £47,500 +15.15%

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 104 (18.81%) MS Exchange
2 16 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.36%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 180 (32.55%) Azure
2 164 (29.66%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (11.21%) AWS
4 39 (7.05%) IaaS
5 32 (5.79%) SaaS
6 30 (5.42%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.34%) PaaS
8 20 (3.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 18 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (2.89%) Nutanix
11 15 (2.71%) GCP
12 14 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.35%) AWS Direct Connect
14 8 (1.45%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.45%) Rubrik
15 7 (1.27%) Mimecast
16 6 (1.08%) Power Platform
17 5 (0.90%) Azure AKS
18 4 (0.72%) Azure Stack
19 2 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 499 (90.24%) WAN
2 243 (43.94%) Firewall
3 206 (37.25%) Wireless
4 171 (30.92%) LAN
5 131 (23.69%) MPLS
6 123 (22.24%) BGP
7 122 (22.06%) Cisco IOS
8 104 (18.81%) OSPF
9 102 (18.44%) WebEx
10 99 (17.90%) VPN
11 77 (13.92%) Cisco ASA
12 76 (13.74%) Network Security
13 69 (12.48%) Wi-Fi
14 66 (11.93%) TCP/IP
15 63 (11.39%) DNS
16 53 (9.58%) DHCP
17 50 (9.04%) Cisco ISE
18 47 (8.50%) Cisco Firepower
18 47 (8.50%) Cisco Nexus
19 44 (7.96%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.72%) NoSQL
1 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (0.72%) Power BI
1 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.54%) GIS
3 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (3.07%) Visual Studio
2 9 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (1.45%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) JIRA
General
1 198 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 58 (10.49%) Finance
3 48 (8.68%) Retail
4 41 (7.41%) Aerospace
5 38 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.06%) Telecoms
8 23 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.53%) Marketing
12 12 (2.17%) Law
13 11 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.27%) Legal
15 6 (1.08%) Advertising
16 4 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 2 (0.36%) Aeronautics
18 2 (0.36%) Games
18 2 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 161 (29.11%) Network Engineer
2 99 (17.90%) IT Support
2 99 (17.90%) Senior
3 96 (17.36%) IT Support Specialist
3 96 (17.36%) Support Specialist
4 53 (9.58%) Architect
5 51 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 41 (7.41%) Network Architect
7 38 (6.87%) IT Engineer
8 37 (6.69%) Senior Network Engineer
9 34 (6.15%) Security Engineer
10 31 (5.61%) Lead
11 30 (5.42%) Cisco Engineer
11 30 (5.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 29 (5.24%) Consultant
13 28 (5.06%) Analyst
14 27 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 27 (4.88%) Network Analyst
15 24 (4.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (4.16%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.99%) JSON
2 7 (1.27%) HTML
3 6 (1.08%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.72%) Kafka
4 4 (0.72%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.72%) REST
4 4 (0.72%) RESTful
4 4 (0.72%) Web Services
4 4 (0.72%) XML
5 2 (0.36%) Velocity
5 2 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 129 (23.33%) Data Centre
2 96 (17.36%) Wiki
3 87 (15.73%) Video Conferencing
4 27 (4.88%) GNSS
5 23 (4.16%) Public Cloud
5 23 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.99%) PKI
7 8 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 8 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.08%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.08%) Replication
8 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.72%) Handset
9 4 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.72%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.72%) Tandem
10 3 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (34.00%) Windows
2 103 (18.63%) Windows 10
3 97 (17.54%) Android
4 56 (10.13%) Linux
5 47 (8.50%) Windows Server
6 23 (4.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (2.17%) Unix
10 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.72%) Debian
11 3 (0.54%) CentOS
11 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (24.41%) Computer Science
2 104 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (18.44%) Contract Negotiation
4 100 (18.08%) Business Continuity
5 98 (17.72%) Mobile Device Management
6 96 (17.36%) BCP
6 96 (17.36%) Business Continuity Planning
7 89 (16.09%) ITIL
8 85 (15.37%) Application Virtualisation
9 73 (13.20%) Cybersecurity
10 64 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 61 (11.03%) Load Balancing
12 46 (8.32%) Project Delivery
13 43 (7.78%) B2B
14 41 (7.41%) Test Assurance
14 41 (7.41%) Test Automation
15 39 (7.05%) Agile
16 36 (6.51%) Project Management
16 36 (6.51%) Roadmaps
17 35 (6.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.49%) Python
2 20 (3.62%) PowerShell
3 14 (2.53%) C++
4 13 (2.35%) Bash
5 12 (2.17%) Perl
6 11 (1.99%) SQL
7 8 (1.45%) MATLAB
8 6 (1.08%) C#
9 1 (0.18%) PHP
9 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 192 (34.72%) Cisco Certification
2 191 (34.54%) Degree
3 149 (26.94%) CCNP
4 120 (21.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (19.35%) CCNA
6 96 (17.36%) Master's Degree
7 40 (7.23%) CCIE
7 40 (7.23%) Security Cleared
8 39 (7.05%) SC Cleared
9 27 (4.88%) CISSP
10 16 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (2.71%) GSEC
11 15 (2.71%) MCSE
12 14 (2.53%) MCP
13 12 (2.17%) JNCIA
14 9 (1.63%) CCDP
14 9 (1.63%) PMP
15 8 (1.45%) HND
15 8 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
16 7 (1.27%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.70%) PMO
2 21 (3.80%) SLA
3 15 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.27%) NIST
6 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) QA
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 166 (30.02%) Active Directory
2 103 (18.63%) VMware ESXi
3 96 (17.36%) Microsoft App-V
3 96 (17.36%) XenApp
3 96 (17.36%) XenDesktop
4 52 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (4.16%) Hyper-V
6 21 (3.80%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.99%) Docker
8 8 (1.45%) vSphere
9 5 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.72%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.54%) Firmware
12 1 (0.18%) KVM
12 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 105 (18.99%) SCCM
2 85 (15.37%) AirWatch
3 81 (14.65%) FortiGate
4 24 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (3.98%) Ansible
6 12 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
7 11 (1.99%) Kubernetes
8 9 (1.63%) Stealthwatch
8 9 (1.63%) Terraform
9 7 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.72%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
13 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.18%) Backup Exec
14 1 (0.18%) CASB
14 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 397 (71.79%) Cisco
2 239 (43.22%) Microsoft
3 154 (27.85%) Meraki
4 116 (20.98%) Citrix
5 107 (19.35%) Palo Alto
6 85 (15.37%) VMware
7 83 (15.01%) Fortinet
8 82 (14.83%) F5
9 78 (14.10%) CheckPoint
10 76 (13.74%) Aruba
11 59 (10.67%) Juniper
12 22 (3.98%) SolarWinds
13 19 (3.44%) Google
14 16 (2.89%) Avaya
15 15 (2.71%) Zscaler
16 14 (2.53%) Dell
17 11 (1.99%) Apple
17 11 (1.99%) Bloomberg
17 11 (1.99%) HP
17 11 (1.99%) Huawei