SD-WAN Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 275 317 388
Rank change year-on-year +42 +71 +43
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 78 74 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.93% 4.30% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 56 62
10th Percentile £398 £356 £414
25th Percentile £450 £436 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £694
90th Percentile £680 £740 £743
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £23.55 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £24.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +101.75% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £31.25 £92.50
% change year-on-year +140.00% -66.22% +236.36%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in London.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in London

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 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
Central London 0 9 £536 +9.95% 9
West London +18 7 £413 +3.13%
East London +12 3 £585 -
South London - 2 £450 -
SD-WAN
England

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (53.85%) Azure
2 32 (41.03%) AWS
3 8 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.41%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.85%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.56%) GCP
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.28%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.28%) IaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.28%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.28%) SaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (89.74%) WAN
2 53 (67.95%) Firewall
3 27 (34.62%) Network Security
3 27 (34.62%) VPN
4 23 (29.49%) BGP
5 21 (26.92%) LAN
6 20 (25.64%) MPLS
7 19 (24.36%) Wireless
8 18 (23.08%) DNS
9 17 (21.79%) OSPF
10 12 (15.38%) DHCP
10 12 (15.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (11.54%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (11.54%) VLAN
11 9 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (11.54%) WLAN
12 6 (7.69%) EIGRP
12 6 (7.69%) IPsec
12 6 (7.69%) SSL
12 6 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (7.69%) Legal
4 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Law
5 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.85%) Retail
6 2 (2.56%) Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.28%) French Language
7 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Network Engineer
2 13 (16.67%) Architect
3 11 (14.10%) Senior
4 8 (10.26%) Consultant
4 8 (10.26%) Security Architect
5 7 (8.97%) Network Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Lead
6 6 (7.69%) Network Consultant
6 6 (7.69%) WAN Specialist
7 5 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Network Specialist
8 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) WAN Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Administrator
9 3 (3.85%) Automation Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Network Administrator
9 3 (3.85%) Network Security Architect
9 3 (3.85%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.56%) NETCONF
1 2 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.41%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.56%) CMDB
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.28%) IoT
5 1 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (2.56%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Unix
2 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.79%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (12.82%) Security Architecture
3 8 (10.26%) Network Management
4 6 (7.69%) Analytics
4 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (7.69%) Migration
4 6 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (6.41%) Incident Response
5 5 (6.41%) ITIL
5 5 (6.41%) Patch Management
5 5 (6.41%) Project Management
5 5 (6.41%) Roadmaps
6 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (5.13%) Decision-Making
6 4 (5.13%) High Availability
6 4 (5.13%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (5.13%) PRINCE2
6 4 (5.13%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.41%) Python
2 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.56%) SQL
4 1 (1.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (20.51%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (17.95%) CCNP
3 5 (6.41%) CCSA
3 5 (6.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.13%) CCIE
4 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.85%) CCNA
5 3 (3.85%) CISA
5 3 (3.85%) CISM
6 2 (2.56%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.28%) CWDP
7 1 (1.28%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) GRC
1 4 (5.13%) NIST
2 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.13%) Firmware
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Terraform
2 12 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.85%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) CA Spectrum
4 3 (3.85%) SCCM
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.56%) OPNET
Vendors
1 38 (48.72%) Cisco
2 26 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 24 (30.77%) Fortinet
4 14 (17.95%) F5
4 14 (17.95%) Meraki
4 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
5 13 (16.67%) Juniper
6 11 (14.10%) SolarWinds
7 9 (11.54%) CheckPoint
8 7 (8.97%) Aruba
9 4 (5.13%) Zscaler
10 3 (3.85%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (2.56%) Facebook
11 2 (2.56%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.56%) Instagram
11 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.28%) Dell KACE
12 1 (1.28%) Ekahau
12 1 (1.28%) ScienceLogic
12 1 (1.28%) Ubiquiti