Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Software-Defined Networking
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.15% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £543 £588 £605
% change year-on-year -7.66% -2.89% +0.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 257 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.77% 17.80% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 121 202
10th Percentile £188 £213 £203
25th Percentile £309 £280 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
England median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 48 59
10th Percentile £14.99 £18.89 £19.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £25.03 £61.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -10.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £84.27 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +36.12%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in the East of England

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 1
Software-Defined Networking
England

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack