Software-Defined Networking Contracts in England

Software-Defined Networking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 528 598
Rank change year-on-year +61 +70 +134
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 28 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.083% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.84% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 25
10th Percentile £444 £409 £390
25th Percentile £491 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £555 £615
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £719 £632 £675
90th Percentile £775 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £535 £608
% change year-on-year +12.15% -12.01% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.74
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £57.33
75th Percentile - - £59.80
90th Percentile - - £60.34
UK median hourly rate - - £57.33
% change year-on-year - - +15.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,342 4,835 6,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 12.95% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,064 2,876 3,935
10th Percentile £235 £214 £240
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.50% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 390 380
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +103.45% -10.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +100.00% -22.57%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in England.

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
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 Software-Defined Networking within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +37 17 £586 +10.61% 43
South East +37 4 £600 -11.11% 9
North of England +7 4 £505 -15.83% 6
North West +4 4 £505 -15.83% 4
West Midlands +12 3 - -
Midlands +9 3 - - 2
South West +35 1 £535 +22.29% 1
Software-Defined Networking
UK

Software-Defined Networking
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 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) GCP
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (57.14%) Firewall
2 9 (32.14%) BGP
2 9 (32.14%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (32.14%) Wireless
3 8 (28.57%) Network Security
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (25.00%) OSPF
5 6 (21.43%) DNS
6 5 (17.86%) DHCP
7 4 (14.29%) BIG-IP
7 4 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (14.29%) EIGRP
7 4 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (10.71%) LAN
8 3 (10.71%) Multicast
8 3 (10.71%) VLAN
8 3 (10.71%) VPN
9 2 (7.14%) Ethernet
9 2 (7.14%) HTTP
9 2 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Advertising
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Architect
2 9 (32.14%) Network Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Network Architect
4 6 (21.43%) Senior
5 5 (17.86%) Consultant
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco Network Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) VMware Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (7.14%) Network Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Product Owner
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) VMware Architect
7 2 (7.14%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) ITIL
2 6 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (17.86%) Agile
3 5 (17.86%) Network Design
4 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
5 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.71%) High Availability
5 3 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (10.71%) Low Latency
5 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
5 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) Runbook
5 3 (10.71%) Use Case
5 3 (10.71%) Validation
6 2 (7.14%) Change Management
6 2 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (28.57%) CCNP
3 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) CCIE
4 5 (17.86%) VCAP
5 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (3.57%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) vRealize
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) PowerCLI
5 2 (7.14%) Nagios
5 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Cisco
2 7 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 6 (21.43%) F5
3 6 (21.43%) VMware
4 5 (17.86%) Arista
5 4 (14.29%) Google
5 4 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 3 (10.71%) AlgoSec
6 3 (10.71%) Infoblox
7 2 (7.14%) Aruba
7 2 (7.14%) HP
7 2 (7.14%) Juniper
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
8 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.57%) Meraki
8 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.57%) Wind River