Software-Defined Networking Contracts in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Software-Defined Networking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software-Defined Networking 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 180 216 237
Rank change year-on-year +36 +21 -57
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.017% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.86% 0.15% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +35.29% +18.06%
75th Percentile - £588 £556
90th Percentile - - £628
England median daily rate £488 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% +8.33% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

Software-Defined Networking 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 North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 580 684 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.36% 11.77% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 468 610
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £602 £566 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 48 27
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.01
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the North of England 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
North West +31 5 £600 +4.35% 1
Software-Defined Networking
England

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco