SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 268 309
Rank change year-on-year -10 +41 +122
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 98 96 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.65% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.76% 6.58% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 54
10th Percentile £356 £450 £363
25th Percentile £406 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -0.47% +7.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £715
90th Percentile £660 £650 £743
England median daily rate £475 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.33% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £27.05
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £35.10
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +130.77% +13.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,263 1,458 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.81% 9.91% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 895 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £258 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £27.56 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%
75th Percentile £26.97 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.93 £79.26 £76.63
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +48.66%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SD-WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
West London +5 24 £450 -5.26% 5
Central London -8 8 £425 -27.35% 25
South London -2 4 £513 - 2
East London +1 1 £675 +15.38% 3
North London - 1 - - 2
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.14%) Confluence
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) Azure
2 20 (20.41%) AWS
3 9 (9.18%) GCP
4 8 (8.16%) GitHub
5 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.06%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.04%) Akamai
10 2 (2.04%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (2.04%) ShareGate
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.02%) IaaS
11 1 (1.02%) PaaS
11 1 (1.02%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 82 (83.67%) WAN
2 68 (69.39%) Firewall
3 49 (50.00%) LAN
4 34 (34.69%) VPN
5 33 (33.67%) Wi-Fi
6 28 (28.57%) Network Security
7 25 (25.51%) Cisco Nexus
8 18 (18.37%) BGP
9 17 (17.35%) OSPF
10 12 (12.24%) DNS
11 9 (9.18%) MPLS
11 9 (9.18%) VLAN
12 8 (8.16%) DHCP
13 7 (7.14%) Wireless
14 6 (6.12%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (6.12%) Internet
14 6 (6.12%) WLAN
15 5 (5.10%) SNMP
15 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) GitLab
1 5 (5.10%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.10%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) Git
General
1 16 (16.33%) Telecoms
2 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.04%) Law
6 2 (2.04%) Legal
6 2 (2.04%) Local Government
7 1 (1.02%) Electronics
7 1 (1.02%) Games
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Marketing
7 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (36.73%) Architect
2 31 (31.63%) Network Architect
3 30 (30.61%) Network Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Network Design Architect
4 10 (10.20%) Senior
5 8 (8.16%) WAN Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Network Security Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Network Specialist
8 5 (5.10%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Lead
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.04%) Jinja
2 1 (1.02%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.39%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.02%) FMCG
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.39%) ITIL
1 19 (19.39%) Migration
1 19 (19.39%) Network Design
2 16 (16.33%) Network Architecture
3 12 (12.24%) Agile
3 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (11.22%) Zero Trust
5 10 (10.20%) Change Management
5 10 (10.20%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.20%) DevOps
6 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (8.16%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 7 (7.14%) TOGAF
7 7 (7.14%) Validation
8 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (6.12%) Security Architecture
8 6 (6.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.29%) Python
2 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.02%) Bash
3 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.35%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (16.33%) CCNP
3 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.18%) CCIE
5 4 (4.08%) CCNA
5 4 (4.08%) CCSE
5 4 (4.08%) JNCIE
5 4 (4.08%) JNCIP
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.04%) CCSA
6 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) Degree
7 1 (1.02%) MCITP
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.08%) NIST
2 4 (4.08%) SLA
3 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.04%) GRC
5 1 (1.02%) GDPR
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.02%) PMO
5 1 (1.02%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.06%) Firmware
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Ansible
2 16 (16.33%) Terraform
3 9 (9.18%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.06%) SCCM
6 2 (2.04%) CASB
6 2 (2.04%) Grafana
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (66.33%) Cisco
2 43 (43.88%) Fortinet
3 16 (16.33%) Palo Alto
4 15 (15.31%) Meraki
5 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 13 (13.27%) Aruba
7 12 (12.24%) Zscaler
8 11 (11.22%) Juniper
9 10 (10.20%) CheckPoint
10 8 (8.16%) F5
11 6 (6.12%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.08%) Arista
12 4 (4.08%) Remedy
12 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
12 4 (4.08%) VMware
13 3 (3.06%) Citrix
13 3 (3.06%) Infoblox
13 3 (3.06%) Qualys
13 3 (3.06%) Tenable
14 2 (2.04%) Nokia