Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Software-Defined Networking
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.38% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £425 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

Software-Defined Networking 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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 27 24 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.38% 13.26% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 15
10th Percentile £187 £213 £182
25th Percentile £286 £300 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +10.34% -14.71%
75th Percentile £438 £461 £627
90th Percentile - £487 £674
South Wales median daily rate £290 £313 £394
% change year-on-year -7.20% -20.63% -21.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £37.50 £14.36
% change year-on-year +113.33% +161.14% -

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper