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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 126 149
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 +47
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.20% 1.49% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £733 £560 £418
25th Percentile £744 £624 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £730 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% +62.22% +125.00%
75th Percentile £794 £803 £475
90th Percentile £798 £846 £483
Central London median daily rate £775 £730 £450
% change year-on-year +6.16% +62.22% +125.00%

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 167 201 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.65% 9.54% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 120 179
10th Percentile £263 £316 £210
25th Percentile £380 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -0.69% +2.37%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £753 £700
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £534
% change year-on-year +2.10% -1.64% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

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

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking 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 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Adaptive Security
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) VMware