SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 4.07% - 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.59% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £583 £300
% change year-on-year -9.95% +94.33% -29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 34 11 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 19.77% 12.09% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 22
10th Percentile £253 £164 £360
25th Percentile £269 £178 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -5.88% +65.05%
75th Percentile £521 £425 £494
90th Percentile £549 £465 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £418 £505 £400
% change year-on-year -17.33% +26.25% -9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +13.40%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Coventry

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
3 3 (42.86%) BGP
3 3 (42.86%) IPv4
3 3 (42.86%) IPv6
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) MPLS
3 3 (42.86%) NGFW
3 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
3 3 (42.86%) WLAN
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
4 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (28.57%) VLAN
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
1 7 (100.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Technology
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Network Design
2 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 6 (85.71%) Zero Trust
3 4 (57.14%) Security Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) CCIE
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) CCSP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE Security
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
1 3 (42.86%) Meraki
1 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper