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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 189 264
Rank change year-on-year -12 +75 -23
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 60 139 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 1.17% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.85% 8.84% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 51 107 40
10th Percentile £44,000 £25,980 £29,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,575 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +14.79% -29.58%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,750 £54,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +17.27% +0.92% -6.65%

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 876 1,573 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.38% 13.24% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 483 1,292 730
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -22 43 £51,500 +6.19% 15
East Midlands +52 17 £65,000 +85.71% 7
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 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 49 (81.67%) Azure
2 19 (31.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 18 (30.00%) AWS
4 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (10.00%) IaaS
6 6 (10.00%) PaaS
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.67%) Azure AI
7 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.67%) Route 53
7 4 (6.67%) SaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 56 (93.33%) WAN
2 37 (61.67%) Firewall
3 23 (38.33%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (33.33%) VLAN
5 17 (28.33%) Network Security
6 14 (23.33%) LAN
7 12 (20.00%) VPN
8 11 (18.33%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (11.67%) DNS
10 4 (6.67%) HTTPS
11 3 (5.00%) IPsec
12 2 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (3.33%) DHCP
12 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
13 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (1.67%) MPLS
13 1 (1.67%) OSPF
13 1 (1.67%) VoIP
13 1 (1.67%) Wireless
13 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 4 (6.67%) MySQL
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
General
1 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Tech for Good
3 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.67%) Police
4 2 (3.33%) Legal
4 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Advertising
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Local Government
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 19 (31.67%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Healthcare Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Programme Manager
4 9 (15.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Support Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (11.67%) Cisco Support
6 7 (11.67%) Project Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.67%) NHS
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 9 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (21.67%) Zero Trust
4 12 (20.00%) Migration
5 11 (18.33%) ITIL
6 10 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 10 (16.67%) Service Management
6 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (15.00%) Presales
8 8 (13.33%) Identity Management
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.00%) Agile
10 6 (10.00%) DevOps
10 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (10.00%) ITSM
10 6 (10.00%) Load Balancing
10 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
10 6 (10.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) Bicep
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (23.33%) CCNP
3 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
4 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (16.67%) Azure Certification
6 9 (15.00%) CCIE
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (6.67%) DBS Check
7 4 (6.67%) Degree
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (5.00%) CCNA
9 2 (3.33%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.67%) Nagios
2 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (63.33%) Cisco
2 16 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 15 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 15 (25.00%) Meraki
4 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
5 11 (18.33%) Aruba
6 9 (15.00%) HP
7 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
8 6 (10.00%) Avaya
8 6 (10.00%) Zscaler
9 4 (6.67%) Databricks
9 4 (6.67%) Juniper
10 3 (5.00%) CheckPoint
11 2 (3.33%) F5
12 1 (1.67%) ADVA
12 1 (1.67%) Dell
12 1 (1.67%) Mitel
12 1 (1.67%) Nasuni
12 1 (1.67%) Rapid7
12 1 (1.67%) VMware