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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 130 140
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +105
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 9 20 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.64% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.61% 6.01% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 30
10th Percentile - £45,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £25,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £63,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -59.22% +21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27,500 £75,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £63,500 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £76,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% +38.18% +10.00%

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 560 333 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.81% 10.68% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 285 171 392
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £40,867
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +10.11% -3.84%
75th Percentile £37,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £74,875
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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
North Yorkshire -4 4 £43,750 -20.45% 8
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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) VPN
1 9 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (88.89%) LAN
2 8 (88.89%) MPLS
3 7 (77.78%) ADSL
3 7 (77.78%) VoIP
3 7 (77.78%) WebEx
4 6 (66.67%) Broadband
4 6 (66.67%) WLAN
5 2 (22.22%) IPv4
5 2 (22.22%) IPv6
5 2 (22.22%) OSPF
5 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Support Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
2 6 (66.67%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 6 (66.67%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Customer Service
2 7 (77.78%) ITIL
3 6 (66.67%) Supplier Management
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) Network Design
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (77.78%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 9001
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 9 (100.00%) Meraki
2 8 (88.89%) Huawei
3 7 (77.78%) Polycom
4 6 (66.67%) Aruba