SD-WAN Job Trends in Yorkshire

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 155 161
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 +36
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 14 14 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.19% 0.40% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 2.32% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 27
10th Percentile - - £43,500
25th Percentile £25,625 £25,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £26,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +188.46% -58.40% +38.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £32,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £50,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 515 603 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.01% 17.03% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 296 404 375
10th Percentile £26,058 £25,087 £25,850
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £32,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -24.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £74,750
England median annual salary £47,870 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% -15.00% -2.63%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in Yorkshire

SD-WAN
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -23 10 £75,000 - 4
North Yorkshire +7 4 £26,250 +0.96%
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
1 13 (92.86%) WAN
2 9 (64.29%) BGP
3 7 (50.00%) MPLS
4 6 (42.86%) VPN
5 5 (35.71%) LAN
5 5 (35.71%) OSPF
6 4 (28.57%) ADSL
6 4 (28.57%) Network Security
6 4 (28.57%) VoIP
6 4 (28.57%) WebEx
7 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (21.43%) VXLAN
8 2 (14.29%) DHCP
8 2 (14.29%) DNS
8 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (7.14%) HTTP
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
1 7 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Junior
2 4 (28.57%) Junior Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Junior Network Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Junior Network Support
2 4 (28.57%) Junior Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Network Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Network Support
2 4 (28.57%) Network Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Network Design Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
1 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
1 4 (28.57%) Presales
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Fintech
4 1 (7.14%) Network Design
4 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) CCIE
2 4 (28.57%) CCNA
2 4 (28.57%) CCNP
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Juniper
3 5 (35.71%) Fortinet
4 4 (28.57%) Huawei
4 4 (28.57%) Meraki
4 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 4 (28.57%) Polycom
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds