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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 397 619
Rank change year-on-year +109 +222 -181
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 360 258 274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.68% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.87% 5.94% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 259 209 241
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,750
25th Percentile £47,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%

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 5,241 4,345 8,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.86% 11.51% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,312 3,271 5,173
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 9 June 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 19 (5.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.89%) IIS
3 8 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 140 (38.89%) Azure
2 72 (20.00%) AWS
3 64 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 21 (5.83%) GCP
6 10 (2.78%) IaaS
6 10 (2.78%) PaaS
7 9 (2.50%) Mimecast
7 9 (2.50%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.67%) SaaS
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.56%) Datadog
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.56%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.28%) CloudFront
12 1 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 340 (94.44%) WAN
2 150 (41.67%) Firewall
3 145 (40.28%) LAN
4 92 (25.56%) Wi-Fi
5 73 (20.28%) MPLS
6 67 (18.61%) BGP
7 60 (16.67%) Wireless
8 57 (15.83%) Network Security
9 55 (15.28%) OSPF
10 45 (12.50%) VPN
11 41 (11.39%) Cisco Firepower
12 39 (10.83%) DNS
13 37 (10.28%) DHCP
13 37 (10.28%) VLAN
13 37 (10.28%) WLAN
14 28 (7.78%) SAN
15 26 (7.22%) TCP/IP
16 21 (5.83%) Cisco ISE
17 14 (3.89%) VoIP
18 12 (3.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (13.61%) Social Skills
2 33 (9.17%) Finance
3 15 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.78%) Retail
6 8 (2.22%) Law
7 7 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.11%) Japanese Language
8 4 (1.11%) Publishing
8 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.83%) Marketing
9 3 (0.83%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.56%) Billing
10 2 (0.56%) Legal
10 2 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (32.22%) Architect
2 101 (28.06%) Senior
3 76 (21.11%) Network Engineer
4 67 (18.61%) Security Architect
5 55 (15.28%) Senior Architect
6 48 (13.33%) Cisco Architect
6 48 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Architect
7 40 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (10.83%) Senior Security Architect
9 35 (9.72%) Lead
10 34 (9.44%) Analyst
10 34 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 33 (9.17%) Cisco Security Architect
12 31 (8.61%) Senior Network Engineer
13 27 (7.50%) Lead Architect
13 27 (7.50%) Lead Security Architect
14 24 (6.67%) IP Architect
14 24 (6.67%) Network Analyst
14 24 (6.67%) Network Manager
15 22 (6.11%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.39%) 802.1X
1 5 (1.39%) XMPP
2 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.28%) OAuth
2 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (24.72%) Data Centre
2 35 (9.72%) Management Information System
3 33 (9.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 19 (5.28%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.00%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.33%) PMI
7 8 (2.22%) GNSS
8 7 (1.94%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.83%) IVR
11 3 (0.83%) PKI
11 3 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.56%) Clustering
12 2 (0.56%) CMDB
12 2 (0.56%) Life Science
12 2 (0.56%) Robotics
12 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (13.61%) Windows
2 29 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.67%) Linux
4 16 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.56%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (25.83%) Presales
2 82 (22.78%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 58 (16.11%) Time Management
5 56 (15.56%) Customer Engagement
6 48 (13.33%) Software Licensing
7 38 (10.56%) Analytics
8 36 (10.00%) Information Security
9 35 (9.72%) Project Delivery
10 34 (9.44%) Identity Management
11 33 (9.17%) Application Security
11 33 (9.17%) OWASP
11 33 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (9.17%) Secure Coding
11 33 (9.17%) Security Architecture
12 30 (8.33%) ITIL
13 28 (7.78%) CI/CD
14 27 (7.50%) Mentoring
15 26 (7.22%) Business Development
16 25 (6.94%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
2 6 (1.67%) SQL
3 2 (0.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 155 (43.06%) Cisco Certification
2 108 (30.00%) CCNP
3 96 (26.67%) CCNA
4 66 (18.33%) Degree
5 41 (11.39%) AWS Certification
6 34 (9.44%) Azure Certification
6 34 (9.44%) CCSP
7 33 (9.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 33 (9.17%) CCSK
7 33 (9.17%) CISM
7 33 (9.17%) CISSP
7 33 (9.17%) Security Cleared
8 29 (8.06%) CCIE
9 27 (7.50%) SC Cleared
10 26 (7.22%) CCDP
11 13 (3.61%) PMI Certification
12 9 (2.50%) CCSA
13 5 (1.39%) MCSE
13 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.72%) NIST
2 18 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.44%) SLA
4 10 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (17.22%) Active Directory
2 34 (9.44%) Docker
3 30 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.83%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.44%) Single Sign-On
3 33 (9.17%) Stealthwatch
4 28 (7.78%) FortiGate
5 19 (5.28%) WSUS
6 17 (4.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (4.17%) CASB
8 12 (3.33%) Opsgenie
8 12 (3.33%) VxRail
8 12 (3.33%) ZABBIX
9 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.94%) SCCM
11 5 (1.39%) Terraform
12 4 (1.11%) BMC PATROL
13 3 (0.83%) Nagios
13 3 (0.83%) OfficeScan
13 3 (0.83%) ZENworks
14 2 (0.56%) Ansible
14 2 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 217 (60.28%) Cisco
2 129 (35.83%) Meraki
3 119 (33.06%) Microsoft
4 95 (26.39%) Fortinet
5 48 (13.33%) Adobe
5 48 (13.33%) Apple
6 43 (11.94%) VMware
7 40 (11.11%) Juniper
8 35 (9.72%) SolarWinds
9 28 (7.78%) Aruba
10 23 (6.39%) CheckPoint
11 18 (5.00%) Palo Alto
12 15 (4.17%) Dell
12 15 (4.17%) NetApp
13 8 (2.22%) Draytek
14 7 (1.94%) Nasuni
14 7 (1.94%) Rapid7
15 6 (1.67%) HP
16 4 (1.11%) Zscaler
17 3 (0.83%) Centreon