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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 166 155
Rank change year-on-year +55 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 26 11 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.07% 0.30% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.48% 2.86% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 27
10th Percentile £438 £441 £410
25th Percentile £440 £447 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +11.65% +3.78%
75th Percentile £600 £748 £644
90th Percentile £645 £779 £700
London median daily rate £525 £594 £500
% change year-on-year -11.58% +18.75% +2.25%

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 248 384 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.25% 10.47% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 262 342
10th Percentile £202 £183 £313
25th Percentile £350 £363 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £629
90th Percentile £765 £737 £725
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 13
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £26.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -29.49% +125.71%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £61.75
90th Percentile - £33.62 £65.10
London median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £26.75
% change year-on-year -34.87% +36.60% -43.48%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 2024. 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 +51 22 £518 -26.07% 2
City of Westminster - 3 £450 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (76.92%) WAN
2 18 (69.23%) Firewall
3 7 (26.92%) LAN
4 5 (19.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (15.38%) DNS
5 4 (15.38%) Wireless
5 4 (15.38%) WLAN
6 3 (11.54%) BGP
6 3 (11.54%) DHCP
6 3 (11.54%) OSPF
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (7.69%) EIGRP
7 2 (7.69%) MPLS
7 2 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (7.69%) VPN
8 1 (3.85%) Network Security
8 1 (3.85%) NX-OS
8 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
8 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Katalon Studio
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Consultant
2 4 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (7.69%) WAN Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) SAML
1 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 3 (11.54%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
2 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 3 (11.54%) Data Encryption
3 3 (11.54%) Database Security
3 3 (11.54%) Key Management
3 3 (11.54%) Network Architecture
3 3 (11.54%) Network Design
3 3 (11.54%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (11.54%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (11.54%) Security Auditing
3 3 (11.54%) SIEM
4 2 (7.69%) Application Security
4 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (7.69%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Python
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (19.23%) CCNA
2 5 (19.23%) CCNP
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) CCIE
5 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.85%) PMP
6 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (3.85%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Cisco
2 7 (26.92%) Palo Alto
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
6 2 (7.69%) Aruba
6 2 (7.69%) HP
6 2 (7.69%) Juniper
6 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.69%) VMware
7 1 (3.85%) Kenna
7 1 (3.85%) Meraki
7 1 (3.85%) Riverbed