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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 113 111
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 8 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.46% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.40% 4.82% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
10th Percentile £575 £496 £434
25th Percentile £588 £518 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £536 £494
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% +8.56% -14.13%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £610
90th Percentile £713 £633 £682
Central London median daily rate £650 £536 £494
% change year-on-year +21.27% +8.56% -14.13%

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 125 166 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.52% 9.55% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 112 140
10th Percentile £245 £251 £204
25th Percentile £425 £463 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £444
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +23.49% -19.32%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £628
90th Percentile £738 £717 £746
Central London median daily rate £550 £539 £438
% change year-on-year +2.09% +23.14% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.49 - -
25th Percentile £19.71 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.80 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +81.48% -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.62 £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £23.27 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £24.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +6.57% +81.48% -35.71%

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
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 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
3 5 (62.50%) VPN
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Internet
4 4 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (37.50%) LAN
6 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (12.50%) DNS
7 1 (12.50%) MPLS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Law
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) WAN Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Decision Quality
3 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
3 2 (25.00%) Aruba
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
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