SD-WAN Jobs in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 257 299
Rank change year-on-year +40 +42 -85
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 76 42 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.74% 0.55% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.48% 2.65% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 55 34 33
10th Percentile £52,000 £41,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £56,809 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

SD-WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,172 1,585 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.41% 20.91% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 895 653 729
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,441 £71,050
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Manchester +37 48 £72,500 +38.10% 6
Merseyside +17 20 £70,000 +55.56%
Lancashire - 7 £79,842 -
Cheshire -24 1 - -
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (15.79%) IIS
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (47.37%) Azure
2 29 (38.16%) AWS
3 20 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (15.79%) GCP
5 6 (7.89%) IaaS
6 5 (6.58%) PaaS
7 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.63%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.32%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.32%) GitHub
8 1 (1.32%) SaaS
8 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (96.05%) WAN
2 35 (46.05%) Firewall
3 22 (28.95%) DNS
3 22 (28.95%) LAN
4 19 (25.00%) DHCP
5 13 (17.11%) VPN
5 13 (17.11%) Wireless
6 12 (15.79%) iSCSI
6 12 (15.79%) SAN
7 10 (13.16%) MPLS
7 10 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (11.84%) BGP
8 9 (11.84%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (10.53%) SSL
10 7 (9.21%) OSPF
10 7 (9.21%) WLAN
11 6 (7.89%) Internet
11 6 (7.89%) Network Security
12 4 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (17.11%) Finance
2 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
2 6 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.32%) Banking
4 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Architect
2 24 (31.58%) Security Architect
3 23 (30.26%) Senior
4 20 (26.32%) Senior Architect
5 15 (19.74%) Lead
5 15 (19.74%) Senior Security Architect
6 14 (18.42%) Cisco Architect
6 14 (18.42%) Senior Cisco Architect
7 13 (17.11%) Network Engineer
8 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Manager
9 9 (11.84%) Cisco Security Architect
9 9 (11.84%) Lead Architect
9 9 (11.84%) Lead Security Architect
10 7 (9.21%) Firewall Engineer
10 7 (9.21%) Presales Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) Cisco Solutions Architect
11 5 (6.58%) Senior Cisco Solutions Architect
11 5 (6.58%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (5.26%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) AWS CDK
1 1 (1.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Data Centre
2 15 (19.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 15 (19.74%) Management Information System
3 12 (15.79%) PMI
4 3 (3.95%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Windows
3 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 21 (27.63%) Presales
2 19 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 17 (22.37%) Line Management
4 16 (21.05%) Information Security
5 15 (19.74%) Application Security
5 15 (19.74%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (19.74%) Identity Management
5 15 (19.74%) OWASP
5 15 (19.74%) Secure Coding
5 15 (19.74%) Security Architecture
6 14 (18.42%) Customer Engagement
6 14 (18.42%) Project Management
6 14 (18.42%) Software Licensing
6 14 (18.42%) Time Management
7 13 (17.11%) Capacity Planning
7 13 (17.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (15.79%) Agile
8 12 (15.79%) Server Management
9 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.89%) SQL
2 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (44.74%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (23.68%) CCNP
3 15 (19.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 15 (19.74%) AWS Certification
3 15 (19.74%) Azure Certification
3 15 (19.74%) CCNA
3 15 (19.74%) CCSK
3 15 (19.74%) CCSP
3 15 (19.74%) CISM
3 15 (19.74%) CISSP
3 15 (19.74%) Degree
4 12 (15.79%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) CCIE
6 1 (1.32%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.05%) NIST
2 7 (9.21%) SLA
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
2 15 (19.74%) Active Directory
3 13 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.32%) DFS Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 12 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (15.79%) Opsgenie
3 12 (15.79%) VxRail
3 12 (15.79%) ZABBIX
4 9 (11.84%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (6.58%) CASB
5 5 (6.58%) Terraform
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.63%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (1.32%) Ansible
8 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 37 (48.68%) Cisco
2 29 (38.16%) Microsoft
3 20 (26.32%) Fortinet
4 19 (25.00%) Meraki
5 15 (19.74%) SolarWinds
5 15 (19.74%) VMware
6 14 (18.42%) Adobe
6 14 (18.42%) Apple
7 12 (15.79%) Dell
7 12 (15.79%) NetApp
8 2 (2.63%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (1.32%) Aderant
9 1 (1.32%) Arista
9 1 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.32%) Juniper
9 1 (1.32%) Netskope
9 1 (1.32%) Sun
9 1 (1.32%) Veeam