SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 89 90
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 11 21 28
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.90% 1.28% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.14% 7.07% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 10
10th Percentile - £291 £348
25th Percentile £350 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% +6.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £536 £686 £694
90th Percentile - £687 £701
South East median daily rate £419 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -33.00% +25.00% -

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 214 297 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.60% 18.12% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 134 242
10th Percentile £219 £250 £205
25th Percentile £313 £369 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £536 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £461
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.42% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 19
10th Percentile £17.08 £33.60 £17.60
25th Percentile £18.31 £56.25 £24.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £57.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -21.77% +226.67%
75th Percentile £64.69 £75.24 £75.89
90th Percentile £82.13 £82.57 £83.61
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SD-WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SD-WAN

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 12 October 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 +20 6 £536 -8.06% 4
Bracknell -4 1 - -
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) BGP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
3 1 (9.09%) OSPF
3 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (9.09%) TACACS
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) BSS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Security Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Product Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Security Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Security Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Telemetry Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Telemetry Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Operational Technology
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) SCADA
2 2 (18.18%) TM Forum
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Life Science
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Architectural Design
1 4 (36.36%) Cyber Resilience
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Product Management
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) eTOM
3 2 (18.18%) Logistics
3 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) VMware