SD-WAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 483 516
Rank change year-on-year +99 +33 -42
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 442 281 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.53% 2.60% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 296 214 258
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,475 £37,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,603 £64,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £75,000 £75,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.87% -4.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,755 10,808 11,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.64% 18.31% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,074 4,700 6,477
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,952
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Midlands +82 139 £48,500 +13.45% 19
West Midlands +98 130 £48,500 +14.79% 14
North of England +72 111 £72,500 +52.63% 15
South West +49 98 £50,000 +15.94% 7
South East 0 81 £55,000 - 10
North West +25 74 £70,000 +34.62% 6
Yorkshire +84 46 £70,000 +55.56% 8
East of England +18 33 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Scotland -46 21 £50,000 -38.46% 10
East Midlands -7 9 £35,000 -41.67% 5
North East +1 7 £79,842 +79.38% 1
Wales - 2 £35,000 -
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (6.79%) SharePoint
2 28 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.71%) IIS
4 8 (1.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 176 (39.82%) Azure
2 104 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (20.59%) AWS
4 37 (8.37%) IaaS
5 35 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.92%) PaaS
6 30 (6.79%) GCP
7 19 (4.30%) SaaS
8 12 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.58%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.13%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.45%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (0.45%) GitHub
13 2 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 390 (88.24%) WAN
2 196 (44.34%) Firewall
3 127 (28.73%) LAN
4 96 (21.72%) MPLS
5 81 (18.33%) BGP
6 73 (16.52%) Wireless
7 71 (16.06%) WLAN
8 66 (14.93%) DNS
8 66 (14.93%) VPN
9 61 (13.80%) OSPF
10 58 (13.12%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (11.09%) DHCP
12 36 (8.14%) 5G
13 34 (7.69%) VLAN
14 30 (6.79%) Cisco Firepower
15 29 (6.56%) TCP/IP
16 28 (6.33%) Network Security
16 28 (6.33%) VoIP
17 25 (5.66%) SAN
18 22 (4.98%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.90%) Big Data
5 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (0.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.45%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 97 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.37%) Finance
3 33 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (4.75%) Electronics
6 20 (4.52%) Retail
7 14 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.94%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.36%) Local Government
11 4 (0.90%) Police
12 3 (0.68%) Legal
12 3 (0.68%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.45%) Law
13 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.45%) Military
14 1 (0.23%) Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 107 (24.21%) Network Engineer
2 93 (21.04%) Architect
3 89 (20.14%) Senior
4 72 (16.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 67 (15.16%) Analyst
6 53 (11.99%) Security Architect
7 52 (11.76%) Network Analyst
7 52 (11.76%) Operations Analyst
8 51 (11.54%) Network Operations Analyst
9 46 (10.41%) Senior Architect
10 43 (9.73%) Lead
11 39 (8.82%) Cisco Architect
11 39 (8.82%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 30 (6.79%) Senior Network Engineer
12 30 (6.79%) Senior Security Architect
12 30 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (5.43%) Cisco Security Architect
14 23 (5.20%) IT Engineer
14 23 (5.20%) Lead Architect
14 23 (5.20%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.45%) 802.1X
1 2 (0.45%) X-Windows
2 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (21.27%) Data Centre
2 40 (9.05%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 29 (6.56%) Driving Licence
4 19 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 17 (3.85%) GNSS
6 14 (3.17%) Replication
6 14 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.71%) PMI
8 11 (2.49%) FPGA
9 8 (1.81%) MicroBlaze
9 8 (1.81%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.81%) Robotics
9 8 (1.81%) VHDL
10 7 (1.58%) CCTV
10 7 (1.58%) Clustering
10 7 (1.58%) FMCG
11 6 (1.36%) PKI
11 6 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 98 (22.17%) Windows
2 59 (13.35%) Linux
3 50 (11.31%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (3.17%) Windows 10
6 10 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.45%) Android
8 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.45%) Unix
8 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (23.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 88 (19.91%) Project Delivery
3 81 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (14.03%) Presales
6 61 (13.80%) Mentoring
7 54 (12.22%) Customer Engagement
8 51 (11.54%) Project Management
9 45 (10.18%) ITIL
10 44 (9.95%) Information Security
11 42 (9.50%) Time Management
12 39 (8.82%) Software Licensing
13 36 (8.14%) Agile
13 36 (8.14%) B2B
13 36 (8.14%) Test Assurance
13 36 (8.14%) Test Automation
14 30 (6.79%) Identity Management
15 29 (6.56%) Analytics
15 29 (6.56%) OWASP
15 29 (6.56%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.98%) PowerShell
2 16 (3.62%) C++
2 16 (3.62%) SQL
3 13 (2.94%) MATLAB
4 8 (1.81%) C
4 8 (1.81%) Perl
4 8 (1.81%) Tcl
4 8 (1.81%) VB
5 4 (0.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 177 (40.05%) Cisco Certification
2 129 (29.19%) CCNA
3 104 (23.53%) CCNP
4 79 (17.87%) Degree
5 52 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 40 (9.05%) CCIE
7 38 (8.60%) SC Cleared
8 37 (8.37%) AWS Certification
8 37 (8.37%) Azure Certification
9 36 (8.14%) CCDP
10 31 (7.01%) CISSP
11 29 (6.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (6.56%) CCSK
11 29 (6.56%) CCSP
11 29 (6.56%) CISM
12 14 (3.17%) PMI Certification
13 12 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (2.49%) DV Cleared
14 11 (2.49%) MCSE
15 9 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.79%) NIST
2 13 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (2.71%) PMO
3 12 (2.71%) SLA
4 8 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.13%) QA
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) JTAG
9 1 (0.23%) IASME
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 66 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (13.35%) Hyper-V
4 30 (6.79%) Docker
5 26 (5.88%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.62%) Firmware
7 8 (1.81%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.13%) vSphere
10 4 (0.90%) pfSense
10 4 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (8.82%) FortiGate
2 36 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 35 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (7.01%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (6.11%) Terraform
6 24 (5.43%) Stealthwatch
7 20 (4.52%) WSUS
8 19 (4.30%) Ansible
9 15 (3.39%) CASB
10 12 (2.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (2.71%) Opsgenie
10 12 (2.71%) VxRail
10 12 (2.71%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.58%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.13%) Nagios
12 5 (1.13%) SCCM
13 4 (0.90%) BMC PATROL
14 3 (0.68%) OfficeScan
15 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.23%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 197 (44.57%) Cisco
2 134 (30.32%) Microsoft
3 91 (20.59%) VMware
4 88 (19.91%) Meraki
5 44 (9.95%) Fortinet
6 39 (8.82%) Adobe
6 39 (8.82%) Apple
7 30 (6.79%) Juniper
8 27 (6.11%) SolarWinds
9 26 (5.88%) NetApp
10 22 (4.98%) CheckPoint
11 18 (4.07%) Dell
12 13 (2.94%) Citrix
12 13 (2.94%) Draytek
13 11 (2.49%) F5
14 8 (1.81%) Altera
14 8 (1.81%) Green Hills
14 8 (1.81%) Motorola
14 8 (1.81%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.81%) Xilinx