Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 516 690
Rank change year-on-year +143 +174 -117
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 733 534 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.44% 3.43% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 484 403 510
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,480 15,549 21,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 15.85% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,392 7,810 11,791
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,742 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.80% -5.26% +5.56%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the UK

SD-WAN
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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
England +189 673 £55,000 +4.76% 142
UK excluding London +94 447 £50,000 - 99
Work from Home +127 346 £60,000 -11.11% 70
London +168 243 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Midlands +73 140 £48,500 +13.45% 18
West Midlands +93 129 £48,500 +13.45% 13
North of England +77 116 £72,500 +52.63% 20
South West +50 100 £50,000 +17.65% 10
South East +21 80 £55,000 - 32
North West +32 74 £70,000 +34.62% 7
Yorkshire +97 52 £63,750 +41.67% 13
East of England +20 35 £45,000 -10.00% 12
Scotland -52 20 £50,000 -38.46% 9
East Midlands -7 11 £35,000 -28.21% 3
North East -3 7 £79,842 +79.38%
Wales - 2 £35,000 -

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 122 (16.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.91%) IIS
4 8 (1.09%) CMS
4 8 (1.09%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 268 (36.56%) Azure
2 209 (28.51%) Microsoft 365
3 116 (15.83%) AWS
4 57 (7.78%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.82%) IaaS
6 46 (6.28%) PaaS
7 36 (4.91%) GCP
8 31 (4.23%) SaaS
9 12 (1.64%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.50%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.23%) GitHub
12 9 (1.23%) Nutanix
13 7 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
13 7 (0.95%) Azure API Management
13 7 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (0.95%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 668 (91.13%) WAN
2 302 (41.20%) Firewall
3 241 (32.88%) LAN
4 206 (28.10%) Wireless
5 148 (20.19%) MPLS
6 134 (18.28%) BGP
7 118 (16.10%) VPN
8 117 (15.96%) Wi-Fi
9 108 (14.73%) OSPF
10 94 (12.82%) DNS
11 89 (12.14%) Network Security
12 88 (12.01%) Cisco IOS
13 80 (10.91%) WebEx
14 74 (10.10%) WLAN
15 64 (8.73%) DHCP
16 62 (8.46%) VLAN
17 58 (7.91%) TCP/IP
18 51 (6.96%) Cisco Firepower
19 44 (6.00%) Cisco ISE
20 40 (5.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.95%) GitLab
1 7 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
2 4 (0.55%) JIRA
2 4 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.14%) LabVIEW
General
1 215 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (9.55%) Finance
3 47 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (3.55%) Law
6 22 (3.00%) Retail
7 21 (2.86%) Electronics
8 18 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.91%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.82%) Local Government
12 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.55%) Japanese Language
13 4 (0.55%) Legal
13 4 (0.55%) Police
13 4 (0.55%) Publishing
14 3 (0.41%) Billing
14 3 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 181 (24.69%) Network Engineer
2 136 (18.55%) Senior
3 122 (16.64%) Architect
4 96 (13.10%) IT Support
5 95 (12.96%) Analyst
6 82 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 82 (11.19%) IT Support Specialist
6 82 (11.19%) Support Specialist
7 71 (9.69%) Network Analyst
8 59 (8.05%) Senior Network Engineer
9 58 (7.91%) Security Architect
10 52 (7.09%) Lead
11 50 (6.82%) Operations Analyst
12 49 (6.68%) Network Operations Analyst
13 47 (6.41%) Senior Architect
14 42 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
15 39 (5.32%) Cisco Architect
15 39 (5.32%) Senior Cisco Architect
16 30 (4.09%) Senior Security Architect
17 29 (3.96%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.46%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.23%) SAML
3 7 (0.95%) YAML
4 5 (0.68%) XMPP
5 4 (0.55%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) X-Windows
7 1 (0.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 143 (19.51%) Data Centre
2 91 (12.41%) Video Conferencing
3 80 (10.91%) Wiki
4 56 (7.64%) Management Information System
5 38 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 33 (4.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 31 (4.23%) Driving Licence
8 19 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.32%) GNSS
10 16 (2.18%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.91%) Replication
12 12 (1.64%) PMI
13 11 (1.50%) FPGA
14 10 (1.36%) PKI
15 9 (1.23%) Clustering
16 8 (1.09%) Client/Server
16 8 (1.09%) MicroBlaze
16 8 (1.09%) Operational Technology
16 8 (1.09%) Robotics
16 8 (1.09%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 205 (27.97%) Windows
2 95 (12.96%) Windows 10
3 82 (11.19%) Android
4 74 (10.10%) Windows Server
5 65 (8.87%) Linux
6 20 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.55%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.27%) Unix
10 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (14.73%) Computer Science
3 107 (14.60%) Cybersecurity
4 105 (14.32%) Project Delivery
5 102 (13.92%) Presales
6 90 (12.28%) Business Continuity
7 86 (11.73%) Mobile Device Management
8 83 (11.32%) Contract Negotiation
9 82 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (11.05%) BCP
11 80 (10.91%) Application Virtualisation
11 80 (10.91%) Business Continuity Planning
12 71 (9.69%) ITIL
13 66 (9.00%) Project Management
14 64 (8.73%) Mentoring
15 62 (8.46%) Information Security
16 55 (7.50%) Customer Engagement
17 53 (7.23%) Agile
18 52 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
19 49 (6.68%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (5.73%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.09%) SQL
3 16 (2.18%) C++
4 14 (1.91%) Python
5 12 (1.64%) MATLAB
6 8 (1.09%) C
6 8 (1.09%) Perl
6 8 (1.09%) Tcl
6 8 (1.09%) VB
7 4 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 244 (33.29%) Cisco Certification
2 178 (24.28%) Degree
3 162 (22.10%) CCNP
4 154 (21.01%) CCNA
5 89 (12.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 80 (10.91%) Master's Degree
7 70 (9.55%) Security Cleared
8 51 (6.96%) SC Cleared
9 45 (6.14%) CCIE
10 42 (5.73%) Azure Certification
11 41 (5.59%) AWS Certification
12 36 (4.91%) CCDP
12 36 (4.91%) CISSP
13 34 (4.64%) CCSP
14 33 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (4.50%) CCSK
14 33 (4.50%) CISM
15 20 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (2.05%) PMI Certification
17 14 (1.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.91%) NIST
2 25 (3.41%) SLA
3 23 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 12 (1.64%) PMO
7 10 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (1.36%) QA
8 8 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.41%) JTAG
11 1 (0.14%) IASME
System Software
1 203 (27.69%) Active Directory
2 83 (11.32%) VMware ESXi
2 83 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (10.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 80 (10.91%) XenApp
3 80 (10.91%) XenDesktop
4 65 (8.87%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.64%) Docker
6 27 (3.68%) VMware NSX
7 16 (2.18%) Firmware
8 8 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.82%) vSphere
10 4 (0.55%) pfSense
11 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (12.14%) SCCM
2 80 (10.91%) AirWatch
3 59 (8.05%) FortiGate
4 50 (6.82%) Kubernetes
5 44 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.77%) Terraform
8 28 (3.82%) Stealthwatch
9 23 (3.14%) Ansible
10 22 (3.00%) WSUS
11 17 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.18%) CASB
13 12 (1.64%) Opsgenie
13 12 (1.64%) VxRail
13 12 (1.64%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.68%) Nagios
16 4 (0.55%) BMC PATROL
16 4 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
17 3 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 428 (58.39%) Cisco
2 280 (38.20%) Microsoft
3 153 (20.87%) Meraki
4 116 (15.83%) VMware
5 104 (14.19%) Fortinet
6 100 (13.64%) Citrix
7 60 (8.19%) Juniper
8 54 (7.37%) SolarWinds
9 42 (5.73%) CheckPoint
10 39 (5.32%) Adobe
10 39 (5.32%) Apple
11 34 (4.64%) Palo Alto
12 33 (4.50%) Aruba
13 28 (3.82%) NetApp
14 22 (3.00%) Dell
15 20 (2.73%) F5
16 15 (2.05%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.77%) Draytek
18 8 (1.09%) Altera
18 8 (1.09%) Veeam