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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 279 308
Rank change year-on-year -60 +29 +60
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 80 71 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.56% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.30% 5.48% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 67
10th Percentile £341 £389 £396
25th Percentile £475 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +2.10% -9.68%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £585
90th Percentile £800 £700 £643
England median daily rate £500 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.20% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £53.75 £23.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +144.68% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £61.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% -20.69% -21.62%

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 1,509 1,296 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.89% 10.26% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 837 1,112
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £406 £395 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £715 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.95 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +58.56% -34.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £62.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £28.96 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -27.60% -12.82% +141.47%

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 25 June 2026.

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 25 June 2026. 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
Central London -13 10 £650 +21.27% 3
West London -30 3 £450 +12.50% 2
South London -18 1 - -
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 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) AutoCAD
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) GCP
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.00%) SaaS
7 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) OCI
7 3 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (2.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 76 (95.00%) WAN
2 43 (53.75%) Firewall
3 35 (43.75%) VPN
4 30 (37.50%) Network Security
5 23 (28.75%) LAN
6 21 (26.25%) BGP
7 20 (25.00%) OSPF
8 14 (17.50%) MPLS
9 10 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (10.00%) DNS
10 8 (10.00%) VXLAN
11 7 (8.75%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (8.75%) Internet
11 7 (8.75%) NX-OS
11 7 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (6.25%) IOS XR
12 5 (6.25%) SSL
12 5 (6.25%) VLAN
13 4 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) Power BI
1 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Finance
3 14 (17.50%) Legal
4 11 (13.75%) Telecoms
5 7 (8.75%) Law
6 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.75%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Aviation
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Architect
3 16 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Network Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Security Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Network Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Network Security Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) Jinja
2 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.50%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.75%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.50%) IoT
4 2 (2.50%) SCADA
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) EPoS
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.50%) ITIL
1 18 (22.50%) Zero Trust
2 17 (21.25%) Migration
3 15 (18.75%) Agile
4 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (16.25%) DevOps
6 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.00%) Cloud Security
6 12 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
7 11 (13.75%) Change Management
7 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (12.50%) SIEM
9 9 (11.25%) Analytics
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.00%) Load Balancing
10 8 (10.00%) Network Design
10 8 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
10 8 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (16.25%) CCNP
3 10 (12.50%) CCIE
4 3 (3.75%) CCNA
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) CCIE Security
5 2 (2.50%) CCSE
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) JNCIE
5 2 (2.50%) JNCIP
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) SLA
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.75%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) FortiGate
1 19 (23.75%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.75%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (50.00%) Cisco
2 24 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 18 (22.50%) Zscaler
4 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
5 16 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 11 (13.75%) Aruba
7 9 (11.25%) F5
8 7 (8.75%) VMware
9 6 (7.50%) CheckPoint
9 6 (7.50%) Juniper
10 5 (6.25%) Arista
10 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
11 4 (5.00%) Oracle
12 3 (3.75%) Meraki
12 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
13 2 (2.50%) AVEVA
13 2 (2.50%) Databricks
13 2 (2.50%) Remedy
13 2 (2.50%) SAP
13 2 (2.50%) Solace