SD-WAN Contracts in Berkshire

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 112 79
Rank change year-on-year +30 -33 +25
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 11 12 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.94% 0.60% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 2.44% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 24
10th Percentile - £303 £333
25th Percentile £350 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% -4.95% +1.01%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £680
90th Percentile £528 £648 £788
South East median daily rate £475 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -16.59% +13.90% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.58
25th Percentile - - £28.44
Median hourly rate - - £31.25
75th Percentile - - £33.44
90th Percentile - - £33.93
South East median hourly rate - £30.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +20.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

SD-WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +29 2 - - 4
Bracknell +11 1 £450 +63.34% 3
Wokingham - 1 £550 -
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (18.18%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
4 2 (18.18%) BGP
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) MPLS
4 2 (18.18%) VPN
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
5 1 (9.09%) Internet
5 1 (9.09%) IPsec
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 2 (18.18%) Billing
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) BSS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Product Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) TM Forum
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Protection
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Business Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Product Management
2 5 (45.45%) Product Roadmap
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (36.36%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) API Integration
4 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) eTOM
4 2 (18.18%) Order Management
4 2 (18.18%) Workflow
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
5 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Product Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (9.09%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) CCIE
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) CEH
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Aruba
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk