SD-WAN Jobs in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 351 387
Rank change year-on-year +68 +36 -81
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 118 78 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.47% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.36% 2.44% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 91 67 53
10th Percentile £47,500 £35,750 £37,100
25th Percentile £56,530 £44,273 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £84,919 £81,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,200 3,192 2,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.98% 19.32% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 1,220 1,716
10th Percentile £25,838 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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 West +34 78 £70,000 +34.62% 6
Yorkshire +96 51 £75,000 +66.67% 13
North East +2 7 £79,842 +79.38%
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (10.17%) IIS
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (49.15%) Azure
2 40 (33.90%) AWS
3 29 (24.58%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (10.17%) GCP
5 7 (5.93%) IaaS
6 6 (5.08%) PaaS
7 5 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.69%) GitHub
8 2 (1.69%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.69%) SaaS
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.85%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 115 (97.46%) WAN
2 66 (55.93%) Firewall
3 30 (25.42%) LAN
4 26 (22.03%) Wireless
5 22 (18.64%) DNS
6 20 (16.95%) MPLS
7 19 (16.10%) DHCP
7 19 (16.10%) VPN
8 18 (15.25%) BGP
9 16 (13.56%) OSPF
10 12 (10.17%) iSCSI
10 12 (10.17%) SAN
11 11 (9.32%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (7.63%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (7.63%) TCP/IP
12 9 (7.63%) WLAN
13 8 (6.78%) Internet
13 8 (6.78%) SSL
14 6 (5.08%) Network Security
15 5 (4.24%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (11.02%) Finance
2 7 (5.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.85%) Banking
5 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (42.37%) Architect
2 35 (29.66%) Security Architect
3 26 (22.03%) Lead
4 23 (19.49%) Senior
5 20 (16.95%) Lead Architect
5 20 (16.95%) Lead Security Architect
5 20 (16.95%) Senior Architect
6 16 (13.56%) Infrastructure Manager
7 15 (12.71%) Senior Security Architect
7 15 (12.71%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (11.86%) Cisco Architect
8 14 (11.86%) Network Engineer
8 14 (11.86%) Senior Cisco Architect
9 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (8.47%) IP Architect
11 9 (7.63%) Cisco Security Architect
12 8 (6.78%) Firewall Engineer
12 8 (6.78%) Presales Engineer
13 5 (4.24%) Senior Cisco Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.24%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
1 1 (0.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 26 (22.03%) Management Information System
2 23 (19.49%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.17%) PMI
4 9 (7.63%) Clustering
5 4 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) PKI
7 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.85%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.85%) Replication
8 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.25%) Linux
2 11 (9.32%) Windows
3 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (26.27%) Information Security
3 26 (22.03%) Application Security
3 26 (22.03%) Identity Management
3 26 (22.03%) OWASP
3 26 (22.03%) Secure Coding
3 26 (22.03%) Security Architecture
4 22 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 22 (18.64%) Presales
5 21 (17.80%) Mentoring
6 20 (16.95%) Line Management
7 17 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (14.41%) Time Management
8 15 (12.71%) Business Development
9 14 (11.86%) Capacity Planning
9 14 (11.86%) Customer Engagement
9 14 (11.86%) Project Management
9 14 (11.86%) Software Licensing
10 13 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (11.02%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.08%) SQL
3 1 (0.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (40.68%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (22.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 26 (22.03%) AWS Certification
2 26 (22.03%) Azure Certification
2 26 (22.03%) CCSK
2 26 (22.03%) CCSP
2 26 (22.03%) CISM
2 26 (22.03%) CISSP
3 21 (17.80%) CCNP
4 17 (14.41%) CCNA
5 15 (12.71%) Degree
6 12 (10.17%) PMI Certification
6 12 (10.17%) Security Cleared
7 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.69%) CCIE
9 1 (0.85%) CCDP
9 1 (0.85%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.88%) NIST
2 8 (6.78%) SLA
3 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (22.88%) Docker
2 24 (20.34%) Active Directory
3 18 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (13.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.85%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 28 (23.73%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (10.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (10.17%) Opsgenie
3 12 (10.17%) VxRail
3 12 (10.17%) ZABBIX
4 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (7.63%) Failover Clustering
5 9 (7.63%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (5.08%) Terraform
7 5 (4.24%) CASB
8 4 (3.39%) FortiGate
8 4 (3.39%) WSUS
9 2 (1.69%) Ansible
9 2 (1.69%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 51 (43.22%) Cisco
2 41 (34.75%) Microsoft
3 31 (26.27%) Fortinet
4 29 (24.58%) VMware
5 22 (18.64%) Meraki
6 15 (12.71%) SolarWinds
7 14 (11.86%) Adobe
7 14 (11.86%) Apple
8 12 (10.17%) Dell
8 12 (10.17%) NetApp
9 11 (9.32%) Juniper
10 4 (3.39%) Remedy
11 3 (2.54%) Draytek
11 3 (2.54%) Ubiquiti
12 2 (1.69%) Barracuda Networks
13 1 (0.85%) Aderant
13 1 (0.85%) Arista
13 1 (0.85%) Aruba
13 1 (0.85%) Sun
13 1 (0.85%) Veeam