SD-WAN Contracts in England

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 335 337 385
Rank change year-on-year +2 +48 +90
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 150 207 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.56% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.72% 4.13% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 131 186
10th Percentile £361 £275 £309
25th Percentile £419 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £601 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.95 £29.30
25th Percentile £69.69 £26.69 £32.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £31.25 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -66.22% +236.36%
75th Percentile - £47.81 £101.25
90th Percentile - £91.50 £102.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £31.25 £92.50
% change year-on-year +140.00% -66.22% +236.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SD-WAN in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +42 78 £500 -4.76% 59
South East +41 26 £475 -16.59% 43
North of England +4 16 £475 +9.83% 31
North West +6 13 £463 +6.94% 14
Midlands +7 12 £456 -29.81% 23
West Midlands -3 10 £438 -32.69% 12
South West +39 8 £600 -11.11% 11
East of England +24 6 £400 -23.81% 9
Yorkshire +4 2 £513 -15.98% 15
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 9
SD-WAN
UK

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

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.33%) Camunda
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (39.33%) Azure
2 48 (32.00%) AWS
3 12 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.00%) GCP
6 5 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.00%) Akamai
7 3 (2.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.33%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.33%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.33%) Serverless
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.67%) PaaS
9 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (90.00%) WAN
2 94 (62.67%) Firewall
3 50 (33.33%) LAN
3 50 (33.33%) VPN
4 45 (30.00%) Network Security
5 44 (29.33%) BGP
6 41 (27.33%) MPLS
7 36 (24.00%) OSPF
8 33 (22.00%) Wireless
9 26 (17.33%) DNS
10 18 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (10.67%) VLAN
12 15 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (9.33%) DHCP
13 14 (9.33%) EIGRP
14 13 (8.67%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (8.67%) WLAN
15 12 (8.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 12 (8.00%) TCP/IP
16 10 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (2.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.33%) Git
2 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (9.33%) Finance
3 11 (7.33%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.67%) Legal
5 6 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.00%) Retail
6 5 (3.33%) Billing
6 5 (3.33%) Law
7 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.00%) Banking
8 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.00%) Military
8 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Local Government
10 1 (0.67%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.67%) French Language
10 1 (0.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 45 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 38 (25.33%) Architect
3 21 (14.00%) Senior
4 16 (10.67%) Network Architect
5 12 (8.00%) Consultant
6 10 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Project Manager
7 9 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Lead
8 8 (5.33%) Network Consultant
9 7 (4.67%) Network Security Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.00%) WAN Specialist
11 5 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.33%) Telecoms Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) WAN Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.33%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.33%) RESTful
3 1 (0.67%) HTML
3 1 (0.67%) XML
3 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.33%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.67%) PKI
6 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.00%) CMDB
7 3 (2.00%) IVR
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.33%) IoT
8 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.33%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.67%) NB-IoT
9 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.67%) Windows
2 4 (2.67%) Linux
2 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (14.00%) Network Monitoring
2 21 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (12.00%) Project Management
4 17 (11.33%) ITIL
4 17 (11.33%) Roadmaps
5 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (9.33%) Migration
5 14 (9.33%) Network Architecture
6 13 (8.67%) Network Design
6 13 (8.67%) Security Architecture
7 12 (8.00%) Network Management
8 11 (7.33%) TOGAF
9 10 (6.67%) Agile
9 10 (6.67%) Change Management
9 10 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 10 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (5.33%) Data Protection
10 8 (5.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.67%) Python
2 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.67%) SQL
3 1 (0.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (21.33%) CCNP
3 22 (14.67%) Security Cleared
4 20 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.67%) CCIE
5 10 (6.67%) Degree
6 9 (6.00%) CCNA
7 5 (3.33%) CCSA
7 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.67%) CISM
8 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.00%) CISA
9 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.00%) JNCIE
9 3 (2.00%) JNCIP
9 3 (2.00%) MCSE
9 3 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) NIST
2 5 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.33%) NCSC
3 4 (2.67%) GRC
4 3 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.67%) Active Directory
1 13 (8.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.33%) Firmware
2 5 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.67%) vSphere
4 1 (0.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (12.00%) Terraform
2 16 (10.67%) FortiGate
3 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.33%) Ansible
5 4 (2.67%) SCCM
6 3 (2.00%) CA Spectrum
6 3 (2.00%) CASB
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.33%) OPNET
8 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (55.33%) Cisco
2 50 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 33 (22.00%) Fortinet
4 22 (14.67%) Microsoft
5 19 (12.67%) Juniper
5 19 (12.67%) Meraki
6 18 (12.00%) F5
7 16 (10.67%) Aruba
8 15 (10.00%) SolarWinds
9 14 (9.33%) VMware
10 10 (6.67%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.00%) Zscaler
12 5 (3.33%) Infoblox
13 4 (2.67%) BMC
13 4 (2.67%) Huawei
13 4 (2.67%) Remedy
14 3 (2.00%) Google
14 3 (2.00%) HP
14 3 (2.00%) Ruckus Wireless
14 3 (2.00%) Splunk