SD-WAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 271 364
Rank change year-on-year -2 +93 -20
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 112 189 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.80% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.35% 5.40% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 123 86
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £378 £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -6.49% +10.00%
75th Percentile £648 £550 £540
90th Percentile £738 £600 £602
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £44.03 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £69.56 £25.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £92.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +255.77% -36.20%
75th Percentile £91.25 £101.56 £26.50
90th Percentile £93.50 £102.13 -
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
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 of England +17 32 £433 +8.13% 17
South East -25 28 £438 -12.50% 14
West Midlands +23 26 £619 +90.38% 12
Midlands +23 26 £619 +76.79% 18
North West +10 25 £433 +8.13% 11
South West +20 14 £650 +40.54% 9
East of England +1 9 £463 +42.31% 4
Yorkshire +29 6 £610 +87.55% 5
Scotland +27 3 £500 +5.26% 10
North East +16 1 £613 +2.08% 1
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.14%) Azure
2 5 (4.46%) AWS
3 2 (1.79%) GitHub
3 2 (1.79%) SaaS
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 75 (66.96%) WAN
2 42 (37.50%) Firewall
3 39 (34.82%) LAN
4 22 (19.64%) VPN
5 20 (17.86%) MPLS
5 20 (17.86%) Wireless
6 17 (15.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 17 (15.18%) DMZ
6 17 (15.18%) DNS
7 16 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
8 14 (12.50%) WLAN
9 13 (11.61%) Network Security
10 11 (9.82%) VoIP
11 10 (8.93%) BGP
12 9 (8.04%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (8.04%) Internet
13 8 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (7.14%) PBX
13 8 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) JIRA
2 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (15.18%) Finance
2 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Legal
7 2 (1.79%) Military
8 1 (0.89%) Advertising
8 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 30 (26.79%) Architect
3 20 (17.86%) Network Architect
4 14 (12.50%) WAN Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Support Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior
8 7 (6.25%) Field Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Network Field Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Wireless Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.57%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.68%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.36%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.46%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) PKI
4 3 (2.68%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) BYOD
6 1 (0.89%) CMDB
6 1 (0.89%) IoT
6 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Linux
2 10 (8.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (12.50%) ITSM
3 13 (11.61%) Network Management
3 13 (11.61%) Presales
4 12 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (10.71%) Network Architecture
5 10 (8.93%) Network Virtualisation
5 10 (8.93%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (8.93%) Security Monitoring
6 9 (8.04%) Load Balancing
6 9 (8.04%) Mentoring
6 9 (8.04%) Project Delivery
6 9 (8.04%) Requirements Management
6 9 (8.04%) SIEM
7 8 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
7 8 (7.14%) ITIL
7 8 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (6.25%) Analytics
8 7 (6.25%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (5.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (11.61%) CCNP
3 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.93%) CCNA
5 5 (4.46%) CCIE
5 5 (4.46%) CCIE Data Center
6 4 (3.57%) Degree
6 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) ISO 9000
2 4 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.68%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.79%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.89%) Observium
Vendors
1 77 (68.75%) Cisco
2 35 (31.25%) Palo Alto
3 20 (17.86%) F5
4 16 (14.29%) Juniper
5 15 (13.39%) Fortinet
6 10 (8.93%) Zscaler
7 9 (8.04%) CheckPoint
8 8 (7.14%) Meraki
8 8 (7.14%) VMware
9 7 (6.25%) SolarWinds
10 5 (4.46%) Aruba
10 5 (4.46%) Infoblox
10 5 (4.46%) Symantec
11 4 (3.57%) Fujitsu
11 4 (3.57%) Microsoft
12 3 (2.68%) McAfee
12 3 (2.68%) Splunk
13 2 (1.79%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 2 (1.79%) Huawei
13 2 (1.79%) Nokia