Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Software-Defined Networking
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.40% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £650 £600 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 33 16 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 13.10% 18.60% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 11
10th Percentile £396 £325 -
25th Percentile £484 £469 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £508 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.23% +26.88% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £583 £529
90th Percentile £850 £725 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Software-Defined Networking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware