SD-WAN Contracts in Central London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 120 120 162
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 -1
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 9 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.19% 5.35% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £419 £438 £398
25th Percentile £476 £459 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% +1.56% -3.03%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £586
90th Percentile - £673 £715
London median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Central London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Central London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Central London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +1 6 £536 +9.95% 9
City of Westminster - 3 £375 -
SD-WAN
London

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) WAN
2 6 (66.67%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) BGP
3 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) OSPF
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (22.22%) WAN Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Network Management
2 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Security Patching
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Runbook
3 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) OPNET
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Aruba
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Ruckus Wireless