SD-WAN Jobs in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 191 279
Rank change year-on-year +3 +88 -39
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 55 137 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.79% 1.17% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.59% 8.57% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 50 107 33
10th Percentile £44,000 £25,980 £29,800
25th Percentile £47,688 £36,900 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +14.79% -23.18%
75th Percentile £73,125 £58,750 £56,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 834 1,599 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.01% 13.70% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 475 1,299 719
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £72,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -32 40 £51,500 +6.19% 11
East Midlands +56 15 £65,000 +85.71% 6
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (81.82%) Azure
2 19 (34.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (25.45%) AWS
4 13 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (10.91%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (7.27%) Route 53
7 2 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.64%) IaaS
7 2 (3.64%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 51 (92.73%) WAN
2 32 (58.18%) Firewall
3 23 (41.82%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (36.36%) VLAN
5 17 (30.91%) Network Security
6 13 (23.64%) LAN
7 11 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (14.55%) VPN
9 4 (7.27%) HTTPS
10 3 (5.45%) IPsec
11 2 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (3.64%) DNS
12 1 (1.82%) BGP
12 1 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (1.82%) DHCP
12 1 (1.82%) Junos
12 1 (1.82%) OSPF
12 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
12 1 (1.82%) Unified Communications
12 1 (1.82%) VoIP
General
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Tech for Good
3 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (7.27%) Police
4 2 (3.64%) Legal
4 2 (3.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Advertising
5 1 (1.82%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Local Government
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Network Engineer
2 19 (34.55%) Senior
3 10 (18.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Healthcare Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Programme Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Senior Manager
3 10 (18.18%) Senior Programme Manager
4 9 (16.36%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Support Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco Support
6 7 (12.73%) Project Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Windows
2 9 (16.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.64%) Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Network Monitoring
2 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (23.64%) Zero Trust
3 10 (18.18%) Programme Management
3 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (16.36%) Presales
5 8 (14.55%) Identity Management
5 8 (14.55%) Migration
6 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (10.91%) Cost Management
7 6 (10.91%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (10.91%) ITIL
7 6 (10.91%) ITSM
7 6 (10.91%) Load Balancing
7 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
7 6 (10.91%) Service Management
7 6 (10.91%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (25.45%) CCNP
3 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
4 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
5 9 (16.36%) CCIE
6 6 (10.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
7 4 (7.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (7.27%) Degree
7 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (5.45%) CCNA
9 2 (3.64%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (7.27%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.27%) Firmware
2 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (67.27%) Cisco
2 15 (27.27%) SolarWinds
3 14 (25.45%) Fortinet
4 13 (23.64%) Palo Alto
5 11 (20.00%) Aruba
6 10 (18.18%) Meraki
7 9 (16.36%) HP
8 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
9 6 (10.91%) Avaya
9 6 (10.91%) Zscaler
10 4 (7.27%) Juniper
11 3 (5.45%) CheckPoint
12 2 (3.64%) F5
13 1 (1.82%) ADVA
13 1 (1.82%) Dell
13 1 (1.82%) Mitel
13 1 (1.82%) Nasuni
13 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
13 1 (1.82%) VMware