SD-WAN Jobs in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 263 234
Rank change year-on-year +80 -29 +21
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 140 45 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.16% 0.50% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.94% 2.64% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 107 40 104
10th Percentile £25,980 £29,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £37,575 £37,531 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -28.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £54,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
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
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 Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,566 1,703 1,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.95% 18.78% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 724 1,087
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -3.89% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
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 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 20 May 2024.

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 20 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
West Midlands +97 130 £48,500 +14.79% 17
East Midlands -14 10 £39,750 -33.75% 4
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 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.14%) Azure
2 20 (14.29%) AWS
2 20 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (7.86%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.29%) Nutanix
5 5 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (3.57%) Mimecast
6 4 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 113 (80.71%) WAN
2 65 (46.43%) LAN
3 53 (37.86%) MPLS
4 48 (34.29%) WLAN
5 46 (32.86%) Firewall
6 45 (32.14%) Wireless
7 42 (30.00%) BGP
8 37 (26.43%) OSPF
9 21 (15.00%) VLAN
10 20 (14.29%) DNS
11 19 (13.57%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (12.14%) DHCP
13 13 (9.29%) TCP/IP
14 10 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (7.14%) VPN
15 9 (6.43%) Wireshark
16 8 (5.71%) EIGRP
16 8 (5.71%) IPsec
16 8 (5.71%) VoIP
17 7 (5.00%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.14%) JIRA
General
1 19 (13.57%) Finance
2 18 (12.86%) Retail
3 15 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.29%) Local Government
5 4 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.86%) Police
6 3 (2.14%) Law
7 1 (0.71%) Legal
7 1 (0.71%) Marketing
7 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Network Engineer
2 41 (29.29%) Analyst
2 41 (29.29%) Network Analyst
3 40 (28.57%) Network Operations Analyst
3 40 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
4 33 (23.57%) Senior
5 26 (18.57%) Architect
6 15 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (10.00%) Senior Architect
8 13 (9.29%) Cisco Architect
8 13 (9.29%) Senior Cisco Architect
9 12 (8.57%) Senior Network Engineer
10 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.86%) Security Architect
11 9 (6.43%) IP Architect
12 8 (5.71%) Cisco Security Architect
12 8 (5.71%) Senior Security Architect
13 6 (4.29%) 1st Line Support Technician
13 6 (4.29%) Firewall Engineer
13 6 (4.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.00%) FMCG
3 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.29%) CCTV
5 4 (2.86%) PKI
6 3 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.71%) IoT
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Windows
2 8 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (2.86%) VMS
4 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.00%) Project Delivery
2 19 (13.57%) ITIL
3 17 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (12.14%) Presales
4 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (10.00%) Service Management
5 13 (9.29%) Customer Engagement
5 13 (9.29%) Software Licensing
5 13 (9.29%) Time Management
6 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (7.86%) Network Architecture
8 9 (6.43%) Analytics
8 9 (6.43%) Business Development
8 9 (6.43%) Change Management
8 9 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (5.71%) Network Design
9 8 (5.71%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (5.71%) Programme Management
9 8 (5.71%) Release Management
10 7 (5.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (51.43%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (45.00%) CCNP
3 58 (41.43%) CCNA
4 32 (22.86%) CCIE
4 32 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 32 (22.86%) Security Cleared
5 31 (22.14%) CCDP
6 18 (12.86%) Degree
7 11 (7.86%) AWS Certification
8 8 (5.71%) CCSA
9 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (5.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (2.14%) CCSK
11 3 (2.14%) CCSP
11 3 (2.14%) CISM
11 3 (2.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.71%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.57%) QA
5 3 (2.14%) NIST
6 2 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.43%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.00%) Firmware
5 6 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.86%) pfSense
7 3 (2.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (3.57%) CASB
2 5 (3.57%) SCCM
3 3 (2.14%) Ansible
3 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.14%) Terraform
4 2 (1.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 81 (57.86%) Cisco
2 32 (22.86%) Microsoft
3 30 (21.43%) Meraki
4 18 (12.86%) Fortinet
5 16 (11.43%) Juniper
6 15 (10.71%) CheckPoint
7 13 (9.29%) Adobe
7 13 (9.29%) Apple
7 13 (9.29%) VMware
8 11 (7.86%) SolarWinds
9 8 (5.71%) Ekahau
10 7 (5.00%) Zscaler
11 6 (4.29%) Avaya
11 6 (4.29%) F5
11 6 (4.29%) Palo Alto
12 5 (3.57%) Nasuni
12 5 (3.57%) Rapid7
12 5 (3.57%) Veeam
13 4 (2.86%) BroadSoft
13 4 (2.86%) Brocade