SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Chester

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 2.45% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £288 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £330 £425
% change year-on-year +51.52% -22.35% +30.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 14.72% 28.17% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 10
10th Percentile £173 - -
25th Percentile £263 - £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £325 £225
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% +44.44% -57.14%
75th Percentile £588 - £520
90th Percentile £598 £463 £538
Cheshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -13.64%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Chester

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Chester over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Chester

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Support
1 2 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) NetScout
3 1 (25.00%) SevOne
3 1 (25.00%) VMware