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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 119 129
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% 0.10% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.67% 1.04% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £730 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £730 -
% change year-on-year -17.81% - -

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 150 192 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.23% 10.01% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 126 163
10th Percentile £332 £275 £315
25th Percentile £419 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +2.59% -6.82%
75th Percentile £653 £639 £613
90th Percentile £738 £731 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.98%
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%

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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) High-Frequency Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk