SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 113 104
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 10 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.52% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.95% 5.52% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £475 £516 £468
25th Percentile £525 £518 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £536 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -14.24% +7.30%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £638
90th Percentile £708 £726 £649
Central London median daily rate £600 £536 £589
% change year-on-year +11.94% -8.96% +4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 202 163 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.17% 9.37% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 119 126
10th Percentile £284 £261 £293
25th Percentile £382 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.08% -1.71%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £648
90th Percentile £714 £720 £760
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.30 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.03% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £119.20 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +41.70% - -

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in the City of London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the City of London

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (80.00%) VPN
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
4 5 (50.00%) LAN
5 4 (40.00%) BGP
5 4 (40.00%) DNS
5 4 (40.00%) Network Security
5 4 (40.00%) OSPF
6 3 (30.00%) DHCP
6 3 (30.00%) MPLS
6 3 (30.00%) VLAN
6 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (30.00%) Wireless
7 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (20.00%) Internet
7 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (20.00%) IPsec
7 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNA
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (30.00%) Meraki
4 2 (20.00%) Aruba
4 2 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
5 1 (10.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow