SD-WAN Job Trends in Watford

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 1.66% - 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.38% - 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £52,600 - -
25th Percentile £53,500 - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.37%
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £54,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +47.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 47 23 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 25.97% 11.86% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 12 33
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,875 £31,800
25th Percentile £38,273 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,276 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.37% +12.50% +71.43%
75th Percentile £54,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £57,625 - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £46,160 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.07% +10.00% +17.65%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Watford

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler