SD-WAN Contracts in Central London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 171 171
Rank change year-on-year +53 0 -16
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 16 8 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.66% 0.21% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 2.09% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 26
10th Percentile £434 £465 £409
25th Percentile £447 £488 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +16.16% +4.21%
75th Percentile £610 £713 £626
90th Percentile £682 £765 £675
London median daily rate £525 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -10.26% +17.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 240 383 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.88% 10.16% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 267 342
10th Percentile £206 £200 £313
25th Percentile £321 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £600
90th Percentile £720 £743 £713
London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.46 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £24.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £57.44
90th Percentile - £30.86 £63.43
London median hourly rate £23.65 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.00% +22.86% -26.32%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Central London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Central London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Central London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +56 16 £494 -14.13% 9
SD-WAN
London

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) WAN
2 10 (62.50%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) LAN
4 3 (18.75%) WLAN
5 2 (12.50%) DNS
5 2 (12.50%) MPLS
5 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (12.50%) Wireless
6 1 (6.25%) BGP
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (6.25%) DHCP
6 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
6 1 (6.25%) Multicast
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) OSPF
6 1 (6.25%) SAN
6 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
6 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Genesys Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Presales Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Presales Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) IVR
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Data Encryption
4 3 (18.75%) Database Security
4 3 (18.75%) Key Management
4 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (18.75%) Security Auditing
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Application Security
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) ERP
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) Aruba
4 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 2 (12.50%) F5
4 2 (12.50%) HP
4 2 (12.50%) Juniper
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Genesys
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) Kenna
5 1 (6.25%) Riverbed
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) VMware