SD-WAN Jobs in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 178 165
Rank change year-on-year +50 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 17 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.64% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.24% 1.60% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £51,250 £34,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £57,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -41.67% +28.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £50,000 -
90th Percentile - £53,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +18.18% +1.38% -7.08%

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 401 561 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.10% 12.75% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 169 457 207
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £57,000 £52,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £64,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the East Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the East Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 9 £65,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 3 £52,500 -
Leicestershire +37 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Derbyshire +12 1 £32,500 -7.14% 7
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (23.53%) IaaS
2 4 (23.53%) PaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) WAN
2 15 (88.24%) Firewall
3 11 (64.71%) LAN
4 10 (58.82%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (58.82%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (23.53%) VPN
6 3 (17.65%) DNS
6 3 (17.65%) Network Security
7 1 (5.88%) DHCP
7 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (41.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco Support
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Project Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Support Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Presales
1 9 (52.94%) Zero Trust
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Identity Management
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (23.53%) RBAC
4 2 (11.76%) API Management
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Cost Control
4 2 (11.76%) Cost Management
4 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Log Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) CCNP
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (52.94%) CCIE
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.88%) CCSA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Fortinet
1 12 (70.59%) Meraki
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
3 10 (58.82%) Palo Alto
4 9 (52.94%) Aruba
4 9 (52.94%) HP
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) Databricks
7 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.88%) Nasuni
7 1 (5.88%) Rapid7