SD-WAN Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 337 389 469
Rank change year-on-year +52 +80 +17
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 206 293 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.58% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.12% 4.75% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 187 207
10th Percentile £275 £310 £363
25th Percentile £400 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £593
90th Percentile £738 £709 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £23.95 £29.30 £25.65
25th Percentile £26.69 £32.75 £25.88
Median hourly rate £31.25 £92.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.22% +236.36% -56.00%
75th Percentile £47.81 £101.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £91.50 £102.00 £29.95
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £92.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -66.22% +236.36% -56.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SD-WAN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +70 74 £525 -8.70% 41
North of England +10 31 £433 -6.99% 17
South East -10 30 £570 +13.90% 13
West Midlands +29 27 £650 +100.00% 8
Midlands +16 27 £650 +85.58% 12
North West -7 24 £433 -6.99% 11
South West +24 15 £675 +45.95% 10
East of England +17 12 £525 +82.61% 3
Yorkshire +20 6 £610 +43.45% 5
North East +18 1 £613 +11.36% 1
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.48%) Azure
2 21 (10.19%) AWS
3 15 (7.28%) GCP
4 3 (1.46%) GitHub
4 3 (1.46%) Nutanix
5 2 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.97%) SaaS
6 1 (0.49%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.49%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.49%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.49%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 153 (74.27%) WAN
2 84 (40.78%) Firewall
3 77 (37.38%) LAN
4 40 (19.42%) MPLS
5 39 (18.93%) VPN
6 37 (17.96%) Wireless
7 35 (16.99%) BGP
8 32 (15.53%) DNS
8 32 (15.53%) OSPF
9 31 (15.05%) Network Security
10 29 (14.08%) Cisco Nexus
11 19 (9.22%) Cisco IOS
12 18 (8.74%) DMZ
13 17 (8.25%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (8.25%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (7.77%) IPsec
14 16 (7.77%) VoIP
14 16 (7.77%) WLAN
15 15 (7.28%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (6.80%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.46%) JIRA
3 2 (0.97%) Git
4 1 (0.49%) GitLab
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
General
1 40 (19.42%) Finance
2 29 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.19%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.37%) Banking
7 7 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Legal
9 3 (1.46%) Local Government
10 2 (0.97%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Billing
11 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (39.81%) Network Engineer
2 46 (22.33%) Architect
3 35 (16.99%) Network Architect
4 19 (9.22%) Senior
5 18 (8.74%) WAN Engineer
6 13 (6.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 12 (5.83%) Consultant
8 11 (5.34%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Programme Manager
10 9 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) Security Consultant
10 9 (4.37%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support
11 8 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (3.40%) Senior Architect
13 6 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
13 6 (2.91%) Field Engineer
13 6 (2.91%) Network Field Engineer
13 6 (2.91%) Service Delivery Manager
13 6 (2.91%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.43%) JSON
1 5 (2.43%) Web Services
2 2 (0.97%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.97%) HTML
2 2 (0.97%) Jinja
2 2 (0.97%) LDAP
2 2 (0.97%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.97%) RESTful
2 2 (0.97%) XML
2 2 (0.97%) YANG
3 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.27%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.22%) PKI
3 6 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.43%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.46%) Clustering
6 3 (1.46%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.97%) NHS
7 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.49%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) IVR
8 1 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.80%) Windows
2 12 (5.83%) Linux
3 4 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
1 25 (12.14%) SIEM
2 21 (10.19%) Network Architecture
2 21 (10.19%) Presales
3 19 (9.22%) Network Management
3 19 (9.22%) Network Monitoring
4 18 (8.74%) Cloud Security
5 17 (8.25%) ITSM
5 17 (8.25%) Load Balancing
5 17 (8.25%) Migration
5 17 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (6.80%) Project Delivery
7 13 (6.31%) Identity Access Management
7 13 (6.31%) Knowledge Transfer
7 13 (6.31%) Requirements Management
8 12 (5.83%) Change Management
8 12 (5.83%) ITIL
8 12 (5.83%) Risk Assessment
8 12 (5.83%) Service Delivery
8 12 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.37%) Python
2 5 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (2.43%) SQL
3 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.97%) C#
Qualifications
1 47 (22.82%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (21.36%) Security Cleared
3 35 (16.99%) CCNP
4 23 (11.17%) SC Cleared
5 18 (8.74%) Degree
6 17 (8.25%) CCIE
7 16 (7.77%) CCNA
8 5 (2.43%) CCDP
8 5 (2.43%) CCIE Data Center
8 5 (2.43%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.46%) PMP
11 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.97%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.97%) CCIP
11 2 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.49%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.85%) ISO 9000
2 10 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 10 (4.85%) SLA
3 4 (1.94%) QA
4 2 (0.97%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.88%) Firmware
3 6 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.91%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.43%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (5.83%) Terraform
2 7 (3.40%) Ansible
2 7 (3.40%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.43%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.46%) Kibana
5 2 (0.97%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.97%) Stealthwatch
5 2 (0.97%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.49%) CASB
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 127 (61.65%) Cisco
2 54 (26.21%) Palo Alto
3 35 (16.99%) F5
4 26 (12.62%) Juniper
5 24 (11.65%) Fortinet
6 22 (10.68%) Microsoft
7 21 (10.19%) Meraki
8 17 (8.25%) CheckPoint
8 17 (8.25%) Zscaler
9 14 (6.80%) Aruba
9 14 (6.80%) Infoblox
9 14 (6.80%) VMware
10 12 (5.83%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.88%) Splunk
12 6 (2.91%) Nokia
13 5 (2.43%) Google
13 5 (2.43%) Symantec
14 4 (1.94%) Alcatel-Lucent
14 4 (1.94%) Fujitsu
14 4 (1.94%) HP