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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 112 112
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +60
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 7 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.59% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.73% 5.64% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile - £463 £425
25th Percentile £413 £563 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £488
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +24.10% -8.02%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 - £709
Central London median daily rate £425 £605 £488
% change year-on-year -29.75% +24.10% -8.02%

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 148 195 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.15% 10.38% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 128 169
10th Percentile £349 £275 £255
25th Percentile £415 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +4.66% -7.27%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £619
90th Percentile £731 £733 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £490
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

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 13 January 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 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (71.43%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
5 1 (14.29%) BGP
5 1 (14.29%) DNS
5 1 (14.29%) Internet
5 1 (14.29%) MPLS
5 1 (14.29%) WLAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) WAN Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler