SD-WAN Contracts in Edinburgh

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 +23
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.12% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.06% 1.18% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £500
75th Percentile £482 - £528
90th Percentile £509 - £538
Scotland median daily rate £444 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -11.25% +11.11% +24.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 85 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.92% 10.43% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 77
10th Percentile £176 £178 £163
25th Percentile £245 £240 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £544 £646 £525
90th Percentile £595 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile - £14.33 £24.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £36.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -50.12% -22.88%
75th Percentile £23.53 £52.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £51.18
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Edinburgh

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Edinburgh

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) 4G
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) WAN Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Line Management
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) BT
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Snow