Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in Central London

Software-Defined Networking
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 122 145
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.049% 0.14% 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 1.29% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £740 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% - -
London median daily rate £600 £658 £1,000
% change year-on-year -8.78% -34.23% +92.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 171 232 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.33% 10.91% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 155 192
10th Percentile £248 £252 £207
25th Percentile £413 £449 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +10.53% -11.63%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £590
90th Percentile £734 £700 £711
London median daily rate £501 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £20.69 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £30.39 - £54.07
London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% +27.45% -0.82%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software-Defined Networking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Central London

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Software-Defined Networking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
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 Software-Defined Networking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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 -9 1 £600 -18.92% 3
Software-Defined Networking
London

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk