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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 276 354
Rank change year-on-year +5 +78 +79
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 102 102 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.63% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.68% 6.66% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 82 57
10th Percentile £360 £440 £370
25th Percentile £406 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +2.82% +9.23%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £700
90th Percentile £700 £650 £743
England median daily rate £500 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - £32.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £34.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -23.33% +120.59% -

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 1,328 1,531 2,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.86% 9.39% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 972 1,590
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 44
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.25
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +23 33 £425 -10.53%
Central London -9 12 £536 -6.78% 11
South London -1 4 £425 -
East London +7 2 £585 - 1
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 6 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.47%) Azure
2 16 (15.69%) AWS
3 9 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.92%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.96%) GCP
6 2 (1.96%) IaaS
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.98%) Akamai
7 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.98%) PaaS
7 1 (0.98%) Serverless
7 1 (0.98%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (77.45%) WAN
2 75 (73.53%) Firewall
3 56 (54.90%) LAN
4 34 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 33 (32.35%) Cisco Nexus
6 28 (27.45%) BGP
6 28 (27.45%) Network Security
6 28 (27.45%) OSPF
6 28 (27.45%) VPN
7 22 (21.57%) MPLS
8 17 (16.67%) Wireless
9 15 (14.71%) DNS
10 14 (13.73%) VLAN
11 13 (12.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 12 (11.76%) DHCP
13 11 (10.78%) WLAN
14 9 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
15 8 (7.84%) EIGRP
16 7 (6.86%) SSL
17 6 (5.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 19 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 12 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.86%) Law
6 6 (5.88%) Legal
7 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Games
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (38.24%) Network Engineer
2 31 (30.39%) Architect
3 21 (20.59%) Network Architect
4 13 (12.75%) WAN Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Network Design Architect
6 9 (8.82%) Senior
7 8 (7.84%) Security Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Network Specialist
9 6 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Security Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.92%) Active Directory Support
11 4 (3.92%) Cisco Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support
11 4 (3.92%) Lead
11 4 (3.92%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.94%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.96%) 802.1X
1 2 (1.96%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.92%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.98%) FMCG
5 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) Linux
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (21.57%) Network Monitoring
2 18 (17.65%) ITIL
3 15 (14.71%) Network Design
4 14 (13.73%) Migration
5 9 (8.82%) Change Management
6 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.84%) TOGAF
7 7 (6.86%) Network Management
7 7 (6.86%) Patch Management
7 7 (6.86%) Security Architecture
7 7 (6.86%) Validation
8 6 (5.88%) Change Control
8 6 (5.88%) Network Architecture
9 5 (4.90%) Agile
9 5 (4.90%) Cloud Security
9 5 (4.90%) Network Segmentation
9 5 (4.90%) Problem Management
10 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (3.92%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.90%) Python
2 4 (3.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (24.51%) CCNP
3 22 (21.57%) Security Cleared
4 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.82%) CCNA
6 8 (7.84%) CCSA
7 5 (4.90%) CCIE
7 5 (4.90%) Degree
8 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.94%) CCSE
9 3 (2.94%) CISA
9 3 (2.94%) CISM
9 3 (2.94%) JNCIA
9 3 (2.94%) JNCIE
9 3 (2.94%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.96%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.98%) CEH
11 1 (0.98%) CWNA
11 1 (0.98%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) NIST
2 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.96%) GRC
5 1 (0.98%) SLA
5 1 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.84%) Firmware
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.88%) Ansible
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.90%) CA Spectrum
3 4 (3.92%) Cisco Prime
3 4 (3.92%) Terraform
4 3 (2.94%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.96%) SCCM
6 1 (0.98%) CASB
Vendors
1 73 (71.57%) Cisco
2 41 (40.20%) Fortinet
3 23 (22.55%) Palo Alto
4 18 (17.65%) Juniper
5 17 (16.67%) Meraki
5 17 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 15 (14.71%) CheckPoint
7 14 (13.73%) Microsoft
8 13 (12.75%) F5
9 8 (7.84%) Zscaler
10 7 (6.86%) Aruba
11 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.94%) Qualys
12 3 (2.94%) Remedy
12 3 (2.94%) Tenable
12 3 (2.94%) VMware
13 2 (1.96%) Arista
13 2 (1.96%) Brocade
13 2 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (0.98%) Citrix