Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Software-Defined Networking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.11% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 73 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.10% 15.84% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 43 56
10th Percentile £309 £221 £275
25th Percentile £316 £239 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £738 £644
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -10.53% +2.15% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £16.34 - -
25th Percentile £16.84 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.23 £41.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -55.54% +195.60% -
75th Percentile £19.06 £41.50 £16.07
90th Percentile £19.23 - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £13.87
% change year-on-year -44.37% +195.60% -57.32%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Leeds

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5