SD-WAN Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 132 224
Rank change year-on-year -22 +92 -7
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 43 130 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 1.76% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.01% 13.05% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 38 98 34
10th Percentile £42,350 £25,950 £29,975
25th Percentile £47,418 £41,250 £36,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £48,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +14.79% -23.18%
75th Percentile £93,750 £58,750 £47,138
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.27% - -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 477 996 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.79% 13.51% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 310 819 520
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £25,988
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,227 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -3.94% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £76,375
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the West Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the West Midlands

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the West Midlands

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Birmingham +5 20 £90,000 +56.52% 3
Warwickshire +6 15 £49,443 +0.90% 7
Staffordshire +5 4 £52,137 +7.50%
Coventry -6 2 £75,000 +76.47% 2
Herefordshire - 2 - -
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (76.74%) Azure
2 19 (44.19%) Azure Sentinel
3 16 (37.21%) AWS
4 10 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (9.30%) Route 53
7 2 (4.65%) Azure AI
7 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) PaaS
7 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (90.70%) WAN
2 22 (51.16%) Firewall
3 19 (44.19%) VLAN
4 14 (32.56%) Network Security
5 13 (30.23%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (18.60%) VPN
7 4 (9.30%) DNS
7 4 (9.30%) HTTPS
8 3 (6.98%) IPsec
8 3 (6.98%) LAN
9 2 (4.65%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (2.33%) DHCP
10 1 (2.33%) Junos
10 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
10 1 (2.33%) Unified Communications
10 1 (2.33%) VoIP
10 1 (2.33%) Wireless
10 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.65%) MySQL
1 2 (4.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
General
1 10 (23.26%) Tech for Good
2 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (9.30%) Police
3 2 (4.65%) Retail
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Advertising
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Local Government
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Network Engineer
2 15 (34.88%) Senior
3 10 (23.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Healthcare Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Programme Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Senior Manager
3 10 (23.26%) Senior Programme Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Migration Manager
6 3 (6.98%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.65%) NHS
2 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (23.26%) Programme Management
3 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (18.60%) Service Management
5 7 (16.28%) ITIL
5 7 (16.28%) Migration
6 6 (13.95%) ITSM
6 6 (13.95%) Load Balancing
6 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.95%) Supplier Management
7 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (9.30%) Privileged Identity Management
8 4 (9.30%) Proactive Management
8 4 (9.30%) Problem Management
8 4 (9.30%) Security Operations
8 4 (9.30%) Threat Management
8 4 (9.30%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) Bicep
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Certification
4 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
5 4 (9.30%) CCNP
5 4 (9.30%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (9.30%) Degree
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.98%) CCNA
7 2 (4.65%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.33%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (9.30%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 9000
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.30%) Firmware
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (62.79%) Cisco
2 16 (37.21%) SolarWinds
3 6 (13.95%) Avaya
3 6 (13.95%) Zscaler
4 4 (9.30%) Juniper
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.98%) Meraki
5 3 (6.98%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.65%) Aruba
6 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.65%) Databricks
6 2 (4.65%) F5
7 1 (2.33%) ADVA
7 1 (2.33%) Dell
7 1 (2.33%) Mitel
7 1 (2.33%) VMware