SD-WAN Jobs in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 235 272
Rank change year-on-year +38 +37 -14
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 97 32 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.05% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.91% 2.49% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 43 21 20
10th Percentile £41,500 £27,500 £26,900
25th Percentile £46,750 £30,932 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £51,750 £60,000 £49,688
90th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £56,075
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -6.84% -6.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,226 1,283 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.25% 19.14% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 924 538 716
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,750 £63,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,513 £75,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the South West.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Devon +20 55 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Wiltshire - 26 £50,500 - 2
Gloucestershire -10 11 £48,500 +61.67%
Bristol +11 5 £37,500 -33.63% 2
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (17.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.77%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (23.71%) Azure
3 12 (12.37%) IaaS
3 12 (12.37%) PaaS
3 12 (12.37%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.37%) SaaS
4 4 (4.12%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.03%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (91.75%) WAN
2 44 (45.36%) Firewall
3 36 (37.11%) 5G
4 26 (26.80%) LAN
5 19 (19.59%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (18.56%) VPN
7 16 (16.49%) Network Security
8 13 (13.40%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (12.37%) DNS
9 12 (12.37%) WLAN
10 11 (11.34%) MPLS
11 10 (10.31%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (6.19%) BGP
12 6 (6.19%) OSPF
13 5 (5.15%) VLAN
14 3 (3.09%) GSM
14 3 (3.09%) NetScaler
14 3 (3.09%) PABX
14 3 (3.09%) VoIP
14 3 (3.09%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) LabVIEW
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.65%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (21.65%) Presentation Skills
3 19 (19.59%) Electronics
4 12 (12.37%) Aerospace
5 11 (11.34%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Social Housing
7 2 (2.06%) Finance
7 2 (2.06%) Military
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (18.56%) Senior
3 17 (17.53%) RF Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) Network Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) GNSS Engineer
6 14 (14.43%) Network Manager
7 13 (13.40%) Lead
7 13 (13.40%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (11.34%) Project Leader
8 11 (11.34%) Technical Leader
8 11 (11.34%) Technical Project Leader
9 10 (10.31%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 10 (10.31%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (10.31%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) GNSS
2 16 (16.49%) Data Centre
3 13 (13.40%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (11.34%) FPGA
5 8 (8.25%) MicroBlaze
5 8 (8.25%) Robotics
5 8 (8.25%) VHDL
6 2 (2.06%) CMDB
6 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.62%) Windows
2 8 (8.25%) Linux
3 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.06%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.06%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.21%) Project Delivery
2 37 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (37.11%) B2B
3 36 (37.11%) Test Assurance
3 36 (37.11%) Test Automation
4 23 (23.71%) Computer Science
5 22 (22.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (20.62%) Mentoring
7 19 (19.59%) Creative Thinking
7 19 (19.59%) Defect Tracking
7 19 (19.59%) Requirements Analysis
8 16 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (15.46%) Customer Engagement
9 15 (15.46%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (14.43%) Office Automation
10 14 (14.43%) Project Management
10 14 (14.43%) Security Patching
11 13 (13.40%) Service Delivery
12 12 (12.37%) Agile
12 12 (12.37%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) C++
2 15 (15.46%) PowerShell
3 13 (13.40%) MATLAB
4 8 (8.25%) C
4 8 (8.25%) Perl
4 8 (8.25%) Tcl
4 8 (8.25%) VB
5 2 (2.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (32.99%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
2 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) CCIE
3 5 (5.15%) CCNP
3 5 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.12%) CCDP
4 4 (4.12%) CCNA
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.34%) PMO
2 3 (3.09%) JTAG
3 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.31%) VMware NSX
3 8 (8.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (8.25%) Firmware
4 4 (4.12%) vSphere
5 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 17 (17.53%) WSUS
2 3 (3.09%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.09%) Nagios
2 3 (3.09%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 36 (37.11%) Cisco
2 20 (20.62%) VMware
3 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.25%) Altera
4 8 (8.25%) Green Hills
4 8 (8.25%) Motorola
4 8 (8.25%) Xilinx
5 7 (7.22%) Fortinet
6 6 (6.19%) CheckPoint
6 6 (6.19%) Meraki
7 3 (3.09%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 3 (3.09%) Centreon
8 2 (2.06%) Dell
8 2 (2.06%) F5