SD-WAN Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 103 161
Rank change year-on-year -14 +58 +6
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 7 22 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.39% 1.03% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.02% 10.09% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 4
10th Percentile - £438 £485
25th Percentile £518 £475 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £539 £633
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -14.82% +33.16%
75th Percentile £664 £619 £748
90th Percentile £700 £651 £779
Central London median daily rate £536 £513 £565
% change year-on-year +4.59% -9.29% +18.95%

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 174 218 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.60% 10.21% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 137 239
10th Percentile £259 £240 £213
25th Percentile £418 £350 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £619 £675
90th Percentile £744 £768 £790
Central London median daily rate £544 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +17.57% -15.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the City of London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the City of London.

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

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 4 July 2025.

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

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory Support
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (28.57%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Network Management
2 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
2 3 (42.86%) Security Patching
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) JNCIS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) Ruckus Wireless