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 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 382 493 523
Rank change year-on-year +111 +30 -47
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 454 274 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.47% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.61% 2.54% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 298 213 262
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,813 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,735 £75,975
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 9,853 10,799 11,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.21% 18.61% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,110 4,617 6,526
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,250 £61,588
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 29 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 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
Midlands +77 143 £48,500 +12.14% 18
West Midlands +87 131 £48,500 +12.14% 15
North of England +68 118 £72,500 +52.63% 18
South West +53 99 £50,250 +18.24% 9
South East -6 82 £57,500 +4.55% 16
North West +34 78 £70,000 +34.62% 6
Yorkshire +96 51 £75,000 +66.67% 12
East of England +9 37 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Scotland -52 20 £50,000 -38.46% 8
East Midlands -21 12 £39,750 -18.46% 3
North East +2 7 £79,842 +79.38%
Wales - 2 £35,000 - 1
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 (6.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.64%) IIS
4 8 (1.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 178 (39.21%) Azure
2 105 (23.13%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (20.04%) AWS
4 35 (7.71%) Entra ID
4 35 (7.71%) IaaS
5 34 (7.49%) PaaS
6 31 (6.83%) GCP
7 18 (3.96%) SaaS
8 11 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.76%) Mimecast
9 8 (1.76%) Nutanix
10 7 (1.54%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.44%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (0.44%) GitHub
13 2 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (0.22%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 403 (88.77%) WAN
2 209 (46.04%) Firewall
3 131 (28.85%) LAN
4 100 (22.03%) MPLS
5 80 (17.62%) BGP
6 79 (17.40%) Wireless
7 70 (15.42%) WLAN
8 68 (14.98%) VPN
9 65 (14.32%) DNS
10 61 (13.44%) OSPF
11 59 (13.00%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (11.01%) DHCP
13 37 (8.15%) VLAN
14 35 (7.71%) 5G
15 33 (7.27%) Network Security
16 32 (7.05%) Cisco Firepower
17 30 (6.61%) TCP/IP
18 26 (5.73%) VoIP
19 23 (5.07%) Cisco ASA
19 23 (5.07%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.88%) JIRA
1 4 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 98 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 35 (7.71%) Finance
3 31 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.63%) Electronics
4 21 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
5 18 (3.96%) Retail
6 14 (3.08%) Aerospace
6 14 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.32%) Local Government
9 4 (0.88%) Police
10 3 (0.66%) Law
10 3 (0.66%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.44%) Military
12 1 (0.22%) Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Billing
12 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 113 (24.89%) Network Engineer
2 98 (21.59%) Architect
2 98 (21.59%) Senior
3 70 (15.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (14.32%) Analyst
5 56 (12.33%) Security Architect
6 50 (11.01%) Network Analyst
6 50 (11.01%) Operations Analyst
7 49 (10.79%) Network Operations Analyst
7 49 (10.79%) Senior Architect
8 43 (9.47%) Lead
9 42 (9.25%) Cisco Architect
9 42 (9.25%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 37 (8.15%) Senior Network Engineer
11 33 (7.27%) Senior Security Architect
12 32 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (5.95%) Cisco Security Architect
14 23 (5.07%) Lead Architect
14 23 (5.07%) Lead Security Architect
15 22 (4.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.44%) 802.1X
1 2 (0.44%) X-Windows
2 1 (0.22%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (21.81%) Data Centre
2 40 (8.81%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 29 (6.39%) Driving Licence
4 21 (4.63%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.52%) GNSS
6 14 (3.08%) Replication
7 12 (2.64%) PMI
7 12 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.42%) FPGA
9 9 (1.98%) Clustering
10 8 (1.76%) MicroBlaze
10 8 (1.76%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.76%) Robotics
10 8 (1.76%) VHDL
11 7 (1.54%) CCTV
11 7 (1.54%) FMCG
12 6 (1.32%) PKI
12 6 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 92 (20.26%) Windows
2 57 (12.56%) Linux
3 52 (11.45%) Windows Server
4 16 (3.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.88%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (22.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (19.82%) Project Delivery
3 83 (18.28%) Cybersecurity
4 67 (14.76%) Presales
5 62 (13.66%) Mentoring
6 60 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (12.78%) Customer Engagement
8 49 (10.79%) Project Management
9 48 (10.57%) ITIL
10 46 (10.13%) Information Security
11 45 (9.91%) Time Management
12 42 (9.25%) Software Licensing
13 40 (8.81%) Agile
14 35 (7.71%) B2B
14 35 (7.71%) Test Assurance
14 35 (7.71%) Test Automation
15 34 (7.49%) Analytics
16 31 (6.83%) Application Security
17 30 (6.61%) Identity Management
18 29 (6.39%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.85%) PowerShell
2 16 (3.52%) C++
2 16 (3.52%) SQL
3 11 (2.42%) MATLAB
4 8 (1.76%) C
4 8 (1.76%) Perl
4 8 (1.76%) Tcl
4 8 (1.76%) VB
5 1 (0.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 181 (39.87%) Cisco Certification
2 130 (28.63%) CCNA
3 109 (24.01%) CCNP
4 82 (18.06%) Degree
5 58 (12.78%) Security Cleared
6 41 (9.03%) CCIE
7 40 (8.81%) SC Cleared
8 37 (8.15%) AWS Certification
8 37 (8.15%) Azure Certification
9 35 (7.71%) CCDP
10 32 (7.05%) CISSP
11 29 (6.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (6.39%) CCSK
11 29 (6.39%) CCSP
11 29 (6.39%) CISM
12 14 (3.08%) DV Cleared
12 14 (3.08%) PMI Certification
13 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (2.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.61%) NIST
2 14 (3.08%) SLA
3 13 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (2.64%) PMO
5 8 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.10%) QA
9 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.66%) JTAG
10 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.22%) IASME
System Software
1 84 (18.50%) Active Directory
2 68 (14.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (12.78%) Hyper-V
4 30 (6.61%) Docker
5 27 (5.95%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.52%) Firmware
7 8 (1.76%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.10%) vSphere
10 4 (0.88%) pfSense
11 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.22%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (8.59%) FortiGate
2 38 (8.37%) Kubernetes
3 35 (7.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (6.83%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (5.95%) Stealthwatch
5 27 (5.95%) Terraform
6 22 (4.85%) WSUS
7 19 (4.19%) Ansible
8 15 (3.30%) CASB
9 12 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (2.64%) Opsgenie
9 12 (2.64%) VxRail
9 12 (2.64%) ZABBIX
10 9 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.32%) SCCM
12 5 (1.10%) Nagios
13 4 (0.88%) BMC PATROL
14 3 (0.66%) OfficeScan
15 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.22%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 210 (46.26%) Cisco
2 138 (30.40%) Microsoft
3 94 (20.70%) Meraki
4 90 (19.82%) VMware
5 49 (10.79%) Fortinet
6 42 (9.25%) Adobe
6 42 (9.25%) Apple
7 30 (6.61%) Juniper
8 27 (5.95%) SolarWinds
9 26 (5.73%) NetApp
10 25 (5.51%) CheckPoint
11 19 (4.19%) Dell
12 13 (2.86%) Draytek
13 12 (2.64%) Citrix
14 11 (2.42%) F5
15 9 (1.98%) Palo Alto
15 9 (1.98%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.76%) Ekahau
16 8 (1.76%) Green Hills
16 8 (1.76%) Motorola