SD-WAN Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 228 206
Rank change year-on-year +100 -22 +10
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 129 39 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.75% 0.62% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.12% 3.52% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 97 33 67
10th Percentile £25,950 £29,900 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -23.18% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £75,400
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -6.84% -6.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 983 1,107 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.32% 17.60% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 805 513 707
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,900 £26,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £57,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
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 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 15 May 2024.

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 15 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
Birmingham +30 52 £57,500 +16.69% 9
Worcestershire - 26 £48,500 -
Staffordshire -13 20 £48,500 +14.79%
Shropshire +1 11 £57,500 -28.13%
Coventry +36 6 £42,500 - 2
Solihull +3 6 £26,900 -3.06%
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Warwickshire - 3 £49,000 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.13%) Azure
2 20 (15.50%) AWS
3 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
3 11 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.10%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 102 (79.07%) WAN
2 63 (48.84%) LAN
3 49 (37.98%) MPLS
3 49 (37.98%) WLAN
4 43 (33.33%) Wireless
5 42 (32.56%) BGP
6 37 (28.68%) OSPF
7 36 (27.91%) Firewall
8 13 (10.08%) DNS
8 13 (10.08%) VLAN
9 11 (8.53%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (7.75%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (7.75%) DHCP
11 9 (6.98%) Wireshark
12 8 (6.20%) EIGRP
12 8 (6.20%) IPsec
12 8 (6.20%) VoIP
13 7 (5.43%) HSRP
13 7 (5.43%) Spanning Tree
13 7 (5.43%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 19 (14.73%) Finance
2 18 (13.95%) Retail
3 14 (10.85%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.65%) Local Government
5 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.10%) Police
6 2 (1.55%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (34.11%) Network Engineer
2 41 (31.78%) Analyst
2 41 (31.78%) Network Analyst
3 40 (31.01%) Network Operations Analyst
3 40 (31.01%) Operations Analyst
4 31 (24.03%) Senior
5 25 (19.38%) Architect
6 15 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (10.08%) Senior Architect
8 12 (9.30%) Cisco Architect
8 12 (9.30%) Senior Cisco Architect
9 11 (8.53%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (7.75%) Security Architect
11 9 (6.98%) IP Architect
12 7 (5.43%) Cisco Security Architect
12 7 (5.43%) Senior Security Architect
13 6 (4.65%) 1st Line Support Technician
13 6 (4.65%) Firewall Engineer
13 6 (4.65%) IT Support
13 6 (4.65%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.16%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.20%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.43%) FMCG
3 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.65%) CCTV
5 4 (3.10%) PKI
6 3 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.78%) IoT
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Windows
2 4 (3.10%) VMS
2 4 (3.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.50%) Project Delivery
2 18 (13.95%) ITIL
3 16 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (12.40%) Presales
4 14 (10.85%) Service Management
5 12 (9.30%) Customer Engagement
5 12 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (9.30%) Software Licensing
5 12 (9.30%) Time Management
6 11 (8.53%) Network Architecture
7 9 (6.98%) Business Development
7 9 (6.98%) Change Management
7 9 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (6.20%) Network Design
8 8 (6.20%) Network Virtualisation
8 8 (6.20%) Programme Management
8 8 (6.20%) Release Management
9 7 (5.43%) Business Analysis
9 7 (5.43%) High Availability
9 7 (5.43%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (53.49%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (48.06%) CCNP
3 55 (42.64%) CCNA
4 32 (24.81%) CCIE
4 32 (24.81%) SC Cleared
4 32 (24.81%) Security Cleared
5 31 (24.03%) CCDP
6 17 (13.18%) Degree
7 11 (8.53%) AWS Certification
8 8 (6.20%) CCSA
9 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
9 7 (5.43%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (2.33%) CCSK
11 3 (2.33%) CCSP
11 3 (2.33%) CISM
11 3 (2.33%) CISSP
12 1 (0.78%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (6.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.88%) QA
5 3 (2.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Firmware
2 6 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.10%) pfSense
5 3 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.43%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (3.88%) CASB
3 3 (2.33%) Ansible
3 3 (2.33%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 71 (55.04%) Cisco
2 26 (20.16%) Microsoft
3 23 (17.83%) Meraki
4 18 (13.95%) Fortinet
5 17 (13.18%) Juniper
6 14 (10.85%) CheckPoint
7 12 (9.30%) Adobe
7 12 (9.30%) Apple
8 11 (8.53%) SolarWinds
9 10 (7.75%) VMware
10 8 (6.20%) Ekahau
11 7 (5.43%) Zscaler
12 6 (4.65%) Avaya
12 6 (4.65%) F5
12 6 (4.65%) Palo Alto
13 4 (3.10%) Brocade
13 4 (3.10%) Dell Compellent
13 4 (3.10%) QNAP
13 4 (3.10%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (3.10%) Zerto