SD-WAN Contracts in Hertfordshire

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 41 67 71
Rank change year-on-year +26 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.25% 0.72% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.26% 4.92% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile - £563 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +53.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £588 £438
90th Percentile - - £475
East of England median daily rate £400 £525 £288
% change year-on-year -23.81% +82.61% -42.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 122 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.28% 14.63% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 106
10th Percentile £446 £290 £261
25th Percentile £463 £350 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £613 £480 £700
90th Percentile £635 £588 £714
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 45 20
10th Percentile £52.00 £57.50 £55.98
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +118.30%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £73.94
90th Percentile £86.80 - £74.65
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Hertfordshire

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Hertfordshire

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Watford - 2 - - 2
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Hertford - 1 £400 - 1
SD-WAN
East of England

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) IP Telephony
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) GLBP
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (25.00%) Junos
4 1 (25.00%) Multicast
4 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) SNMP
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCDP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler