Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Software-Defined Networking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.092% - 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% - 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile £713 - £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £730
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.76%
75th Percentile £738 - £803
90th Percentile - - £846
Central London median daily rate £725 - £730
% change year-on-year - - +71.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Software-Defined Networking 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 203 164 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.30% 9.43% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 119 129
10th Percentile £283 £261 £310
25th Percentile £381 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +2.10% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £641
90th Percentile £715 £720 £759
Central London median daily rate £513 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -3.39% +1.05% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.89 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.96 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +144.90% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.41 -
90th Percentile £119.20 £57.51 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 -
% change year-on-year +155.10% - -

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software-Defined Networking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Security
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Google