SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 29 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.06% 1.10% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 5.41% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £725 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 37 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 10.64% 20.33% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 5
10th Percentile £410 £250 £247
25th Percentile £463 £400 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £300
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +69.17% -36.84%
75th Percentile £527 £625 £588
90th Percentile £535 £700 £603
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 £448 £538
% change year-on-year +14.53% -16.74% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £63.00 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% +210.38%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £85.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year -1.84% - -9.99%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Cambridge

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds