SD-WAN Contracts in Manchester

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 90 135
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 -40
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 23 28 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.55% 1.50% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.79% 11.97% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 7
10th Percentile - £350 £465
25th Percentile £378 £419 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% -6.52% +27.78%
75th Percentile £433 £550 £631
90th Percentile £450 £621 £650
North West median daily rate £433 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -13.50% - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 195 234 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.15% 12.50% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 175 202
10th Percentile £264 £313 £170
25th Percentile £350 £379 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +7.93% +23.53%
75th Percentile £775 £575 £625
90th Percentile £850 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £14.29 £15.00 £10.95
25th Percentile - £18.50 £13.79
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.71 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +15.03% -67.27%
75th Percentile £100.00 £28.75 £21.39
90th Percentile £102.40 £32.50 £42.12
North West median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Manchester

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Manchester

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Manchester

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 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
Wigan - 1 £450 - 2
SD-WAN
North West

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (56.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) DMZ
2 14 (60.87%) Wireless
3 13 (56.52%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (56.52%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (21.74%) WAN
5 2 (8.70%) Firewall
5 2 (8.70%) Network Security
5 2 (8.70%) VPN
6 1 (4.35%) IPsec
6 1 (4.35%) LAN
6 1 (4.35%) MPLS
6 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
General
1 17 (73.91%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Network Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Presales Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Presales Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) ITSM
2 2 (8.70%) Network Design
2 2 (8.70%) Workflow
3 1 (4.35%) Change Management
3 1 (4.35%) Presales
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) CCNA
1 1 (4.35%) CCNP
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Cisco
2 16 (69.57%) F5
2 16 (69.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.70%) Juniper
3 2 (8.70%) Meraki
3 2 (8.70%) Nortel
4 1 (4.35%) Aruba
4 1 (4.35%) Radianz