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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 262 287
Rank change year-on-year -107 +25 +79
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 67 115 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.85% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.21% 8.19% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 87 71
10th Percentile £425 £362 £400
25th Percentile £500 £404 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £575 £585
90th Percentile £826 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £544
% change year-on-year - -8.05% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £61.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.25 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -26.52% -23.33% -18.92%

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 1,593 1,404 1,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.90% 10.33% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 914 1,017
10th Percentile £305 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £619
90th Percentile £725 £718 £713
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 30 31
10th Percentile £19.48 £19.40 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.27 £27.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.52% +15.86% -34.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.25 £62.35 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -37.78% -18.00% +5.75%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 11 £650 +21.27% 4
West London -45 3 £525 +23.53% 1
South London -19 1 - - 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 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) AutoCAD
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) Azure
2 12 (17.91%) GCP
3 11 (16.42%) AWS
4 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.48%) OCI
7 2 (2.99%) SaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.49%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (95.52%) WAN
2 36 (53.73%) Firewall
3 32 (47.76%) VPN
4 26 (38.81%) Network Security
5 19 (28.36%) BGP
5 19 (28.36%) LAN
6 18 (26.87%) OSPF
7 17 (25.37%) MPLS
8 8 (11.94%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (11.94%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (11.94%) Ethernet VPN
8 8 (11.94%) VXLAN
9 7 (10.45%) DNS
9 7 (10.45%) Internet
9 7 (10.45%) NX-OS
10 5 (7.46%) IOS XR
10 5 (7.46%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (7.46%) Wireless
11 4 (5.97%) SSL
11 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.49%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (1.49%) Power BI
1 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Telecoms
4 6 (8.96%) Finance
5 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.97%) Law
5 4 (5.97%) Legal
6 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.48%) Retail
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Network Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Security Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) Architect
3 9 (13.43%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Consultant
4 5 (7.46%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) Lead
5 4 (5.97%) Security Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Network Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Technical Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Network Consultant
7 2 (2.99%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) Jinja
2 2 (2.99%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.99%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.99%) REST
3 1 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.46%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) EPoS
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) VMS
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) Zero Trust
2 16 (23.88%) Migration
3 13 (19.40%) Agile
3 13 (19.40%) DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (16.42%) Cloud Security
4 11 (16.42%) ITIL
5 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
6 9 (13.43%) Analytics
6 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (13.43%) Load Balancing
6 9 (13.43%) SIEM
7 8 (11.94%) AI
7 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (11.94%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.94%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (10.45%) Performance Management
8 7 (10.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.94%) Bash
4 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (17.91%) CCNP
3 8 (11.94%) CCIE
4 4 (5.97%) CCNA
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CCIE Security
5 2 (2.99%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
1 6 (8.96%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.99%) Firmware
3 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (22.39%) Terraform
2 11 (16.42%) FortiGate
3 10 (14.93%) Ansible
4 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.49%) SCCM
5 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 34 (50.75%) Cisco
2 22 (32.84%) Palo Alto
3 16 (23.88%) Zscaler
4 13 (19.40%) Fortinet
5 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
6 7 (10.45%) F5
7 6 (8.96%) Aruba
7 6 (8.96%) Juniper
7 6 (8.96%) VMware
8 4 (5.97%) Arista
8 4 (5.97%) Meraki
9 3 (4.48%) Oracle
10 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.49%) Citrix
11 1 (1.49%) Forcepoint
11 1 (1.49%) Google
11 1 (1.49%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (1.49%) Okta
11 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds