SD-WAN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 294 407 606
Rank change year-on-year +113 +199 -203
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 345 259 244
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.64% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.64% 5.68% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 260 206 209
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £89,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,063 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.43% +0.98% -4.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,192 4,557 7,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.39% 11.20% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 3,394 4,962
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,522 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

SD-WAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SD-WAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

SD-WAN
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SD-WAN.

SD-WAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SD-WAN over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

SD-WAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.77%) IIS
3 7 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (40.00%) Azure
2 70 (20.29%) AWS
3 62 (17.97%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 21 (6.09%) GCP
6 12 (3.48%) IaaS
7 10 (2.90%) PaaS
8 7 (2.03%) Mimecast
8 7 (2.03%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.74%) SaaS
10 5 (1.45%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.29%) OCI
12 1 (0.29%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 326 (94.49%) WAN
2 151 (43.77%) LAN
3 140 (40.58%) Firewall
4 90 (26.09%) Wi-Fi
5 76 (22.03%) MPLS
6 75 (21.74%) BGP
7 62 (17.97%) OSPF
8 60 (17.39%) Wireless
9 50 (14.49%) Network Security
10 46 (13.33%) VPN
11 45 (13.04%) WLAN
12 39 (11.30%) DNS
13 35 (10.14%) DHCP
14 33 (9.57%) VLAN
15 29 (8.41%) Cisco Firepower
15 29 (8.41%) SAN
16 26 (7.54%) TCP/IP
17 22 (6.38%) Cisco ISE
18 13 (3.77%) Ethernet
19 12 (3.48%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (1.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (13.62%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.72%) Finance
3 16 (4.64%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.77%) Retail
5 8 (2.32%) Law
6 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Marketing
8 4 (1.16%) Japanese Language
8 4 (1.16%) Publishing
9 3 (0.87%) Social Housing
9 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Legal
10 2 (0.58%) Military
10 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (30.14%) Architect
2 83 (24.06%) Senior
3 74 (21.45%) Network Engineer
4 55 (15.94%) Security Architect
5 43 (12.46%) Senior Architect
6 41 (11.88%) Analyst
7 39 (11.30%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (10.43%) Cisco Architect
8 36 (10.43%) Senior Cisco Architect
9 35 (10.14%) Lead
10 34 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (8.99%) Network Analyst
12 29 (8.41%) Network Operations Analyst
12 29 (8.41%) Operations Analyst
13 27 (7.83%) Lead Architect
13 27 (7.83%) Lead Security Architect
13 27 (7.83%) Senior Security Architect
14 26 (7.54%) Senior Network Engineer
15 25 (7.25%) Network Manager
16 23 (6.67%) IP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.74%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.45%) XMPP
3 1 (0.29%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.29%) OAuth
3 1 (0.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 74 (21.45%) Data Centre
2 35 (10.14%) Management Information System
3 33 (9.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 19 (5.51%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.22%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.48%) PMI
7 9 (2.61%) GNSS
8 7 (2.03%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.87%) IVR
11 3 (0.87%) PKI
11 3 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.58%) Clustering
12 2 (0.58%) Life Science
12 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.20%) Windows
2 27 (7.83%) Linux
3 26 (7.54%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.58%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (23.77%) Presales
2 73 (21.16%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (17.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (13.04%) Time Management
5 43 (12.46%) Customer Engagement
6 37 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (10.43%) Information Security
7 36 (10.43%) Software Licensing
8 34 (9.86%) Identity Management
8 34 (9.86%) Project Delivery
9 33 (9.57%) Application Security
9 33 (9.57%) OWASP
9 33 (9.57%) Secure Coding
9 33 (9.57%) Security Architecture
10 31 (8.99%) ITIL
11 28 (8.12%) CI/CD
11 28 (8.12%) Project Management
12 26 (7.54%) Analytics
12 26 (7.54%) Business Development
13 24 (6.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.61%) PowerShell
2 6 (1.74%) SQL
3 5 (1.45%) Python
4 2 (0.58%) Bash
4 2 (0.58%) C++
4 2 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 145 (42.03%) Cisco Certification
2 99 (28.70%) CCNP
3 91 (26.38%) CCNA
4 54 (15.65%) Degree
5 41 (11.88%) AWS Certification
6 34 (9.86%) Azure Certification
6 34 (9.86%) CCSP
7 33 (9.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 33 (9.57%) CCSK
7 33 (9.57%) CISM
7 33 (9.57%) CISSP
8 30 (8.70%) CCDP
8 30 (8.70%) CCIE
8 30 (8.70%) Security Cleared
9 27 (7.83%) SC Cleared
10 13 (3.77%) PMI Certification
11 8 (2.32%) CCSA
12 6 (1.74%) MCSE
12 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.14%) NIST
2 19 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.06%) SLA
4 10 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (2.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (16.81%) Active Directory
2 34 (9.86%) Docker
3 29 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (6.38%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.87%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.86%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (7.83%) FortiGate
4 21 (6.09%) Stealthwatch
5 19 (5.51%) WSUS
6 17 (4.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (4.35%) CASB
8 12 (3.48%) Opsgenie
8 12 (3.48%) VxRail
8 12 (3.48%) ZABBIX
9 10 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.45%) SCCM
10 5 (1.45%) Terraform
11 4 (1.16%) BMC PATROL
12 3 (0.87%) Nagios
12 3 (0.87%) OfficeScan
12 3 (0.87%) ZENworks
13 2 (0.58%) Ansible
13 2 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 192 (55.65%) Cisco
2 111 (32.17%) Meraki
3 106 (30.72%) Microsoft
4 85 (24.64%) Fortinet
5 44 (12.75%) VMware
6 40 (11.59%) Juniper
7 36 (10.43%) Adobe
7 36 (10.43%) Apple
8 33 (9.57%) SolarWinds
9 27 (7.83%) Aruba
10 22 (6.38%) CheckPoint
11 16 (4.64%) Palo Alto
12 14 (4.06%) NetApp
13 13 (3.77%) Dell
14 8 (2.32%) Draytek
15 5 (1.45%) F5
15 5 (1.45%) HP
15 5 (1.45%) Nasuni
15 5 (1.45%) Rapid7
15 5 (1.45%) Zscaler