SD-WAN Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 162 158
Rank change year-on-year +50 -4 -21
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 13 10 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 0.27% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.10% 2.73% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 25
10th Percentile £438 £398 £409
25th Percentile £459 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +1.05% -4.28%
75th Percentile £594 £586 £638
90th Percentile £673 £715 £680
Central London median daily rate £488 £480 £515
% change year-on-year +1.56% -6.80% +3.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 213 366 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.67% 10.06% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 250 323
10th Percentile £215 £248 £313
25th Percentile £350 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £615
90th Percentile £773 £758 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the City of London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the City of London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the City of London

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (15.38%) WLAN
5 1 (7.69%) DNS
5 1 (7.69%) MPLS
5 1 (7.69%) Multicast
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (7.69%) SAN
5 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
5 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Katalon Studio
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
1 4 (30.77%) Security Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Network Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Genesys Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Presales Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Presales Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) IVR
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (30.77%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Data Encryption
4 3 (23.08%) Database Security
4 3 (23.08%) Key Management
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (23.08%) Security Auditing
4 3 (23.08%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Application Security
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) ERP
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Aruba
3 2 (15.38%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Genesys
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper
4 1 (7.69%) Kenna
4 1 (7.69%) Riverbed
4 1 (7.69%) VMware