SD-WAN Contracts in Birmingham

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 4 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.68% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.76% 3.82% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £265 £253 -
25th Percentile £448 £331 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £338
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +40.64% -32.79%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £369
90th Percentile £568 £658 £401
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £538 £338
% change year-on-year -2.33% +59.26% -32.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 131 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.93% 17.80% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 78 69
10th Percentile £169 £200 £313
25th Percentile £400 £288 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £594 £488 £700
90th Percentile £696 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £498
% change year-on-year +18.75% -19.60% +24.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £21.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.26 £19.95 £19.60
% change year-on-year -18.50% +1.77% +15.31%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (50.00%) VoIP
4 1 (25.00%) BGP
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler