SD-WAN Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 116 178
Rank change year-on-year -36 +62 -26
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 11 17 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.24% 0.87% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.24% 4.35% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile - £35,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £65,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +85.71% -41.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £54,000 - £53,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +0.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

SD-WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 340 391 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.32% 20.01% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 184 165 460
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £30,274
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SD-WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the East Midlands

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Lincolnshire - 6 £32,500 -
Northamptonshire +4 3 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Derbyshire -3 2 £53,750 +65.38%
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
2 8 (72.73%) VPN
3 6 (54.55%) DHCP
3 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) Wireless
4 3 (27.27%) BGP
4 3 (27.27%) LAN
4 3 (27.27%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (18.18%) VLAN
5 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (9.09%) Firewall
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support Technician
1 4 (36.36%) IT Technician
1 4 (36.36%) Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Services Manager
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) LAN Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Driving Licence
2 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ITSM
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (54.55%) ERP
2 6 (54.55%) Logistics
2 6 (54.55%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Process Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Transition Management
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) Autotask
2 2 (18.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Epicor
3 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
3 2 (18.18%) TP-LINK
4 1 (9.09%) Progress