Hybrid/Remote SD-WAN Job Trends

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 306 285
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 +119
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 112 93 344
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.69% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.73% 5.71% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 70 60 264
10th Percentile £39,898 £41,200 £40,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,313 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,442 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.02% -1.84% -17.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,125 £75,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,875 £84,919
UK median annual salary £70,000 £64,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.53% +17.27% -8.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,954 1,628 5,158
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.86% 12.05% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,198 3,438
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,273 £33,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,058 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -2.75% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,275 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -6.86%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SD-WAN and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SD-WAN
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SD-WAN over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

SD-WAN salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 17 (15.18%) SharePoint
2 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 60 (53.57%) Azure
2 34 (30.36%) AWS
3 19 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (13.39%) Entra ID
5 13 (11.61%) AWS Direct Connect
5 13 (11.61%) OneDrive
5 13 (11.61%) SaaS
6 12 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (7.14%) GCP
8 7 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.57%) OCI
10 3 (2.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.89%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.89%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 104 (92.86%) WAN
2 59 (52.68%) LAN
3 57 (50.89%) Firewall
4 45 (40.18%) VPN
5 29 (25.89%) Network Security
6 28 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (24.11%) BGP
7 27 (24.11%) Wireless
8 26 (23.21%) WLAN
9 24 (21.43%) MPLS
10 23 (20.54%) Cisco ISE
10 23 (20.54%) OSPF
10 23 (20.54%) TCP/IP
11 20 (17.86%) DNS
12 19 (16.96%) DHCP
13 15 (13.39%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (13.39%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (13.39%) VLAN
13 15 (13.39%) VXLAN
14 13 (11.61%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
General
1 33 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.14%) Retail
5 6 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.57%) Law
6 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Police
9 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) Network Engineer
2 33 (29.46%) Senior
3 24 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (16.96%) Architect
5 12 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Network Operations Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (8.93%) Cisco Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Firewall Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Network Manager
8 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) IT Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) Network Architect
8 9 (8.04%) Operations Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) Presales Solution Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.36%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.68%) 802.1X
1 3 (2.68%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.57%) iPad
4 4 (3.57%) iPhone
4 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.89%) PKI
7 1 (0.89%) SCADA
7 1 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Windows
2 15 (13.39%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.61%) Windows 10
4 12 (10.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.57%) Zero Trust
2 29 (25.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (19.64%) Mentoring
4 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.96%) Service Delivery
5 19 (16.96%) Service Management
6 18 (16.07%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (13.39%) Presales
8 14 (12.50%) Cloud Security
8 14 (12.50%) ITIL
9 13 (11.61%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (11.61%) Network Segmentation
9 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (10.71%) Cloud Operations
10 12 (10.71%) Cost Management
10 12 (10.71%) Network Architecture
10 12 (10.71%) Problem Management
10 12 (10.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.14%) Python
2 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.57%) SQL
3 3 (2.68%) Bash
3 3 (2.68%) Bicep
4 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (18.75%) CCNP
3 13 (11.61%) CCIE
4 9 (8.04%) Degree
5 7 (6.25%) CCNA
6 6 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.57%) CCSA
8 4 (3.57%) CCSE
9 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.79%) CCIE Security
9 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.79%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.79%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) SLA
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.89%) Basel III
5 1 (0.89%) MiFID
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (16.96%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.79%) Firmware
6 1 (0.89%) Docker
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.82%) FortiGate
2 11 (9.82%) Terraform
3 6 (5.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.79%) Autotask
4 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.89%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (62.50%) Cisco
2 36 (32.14%) Fortinet
3 27 (24.11%) Meraki
4 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 20 (17.86%) Palo Alto
4 20 (17.86%) SolarWinds
5 16 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 16 (14.29%) VMware
6 13 (11.61%) Dynatrace
7 9 (8.04%) ServiceNow
8 7 (6.25%) Zscaler
9 6 (5.36%) Aruba
10 4 (3.57%) Juniper
11 3 (2.68%) Avaya
11 3 (2.68%) F5
11 3 (2.68%) Netskope
12 2 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (1.79%) Google
12 2 (1.79%) Huawei
13 1 (0.89%) Blue Coat