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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 269 317
Rank change year-on-year -53 +48 +94
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 90 77 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.61% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.57% 5.98% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 58 49
10th Percentile £354 £404 £333
25th Percentile £450 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £585
90th Percentile £800 £675 £739
England median daily rate £513 £500 £494
% change year-on-year +2.50% +1.27% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
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 £42.25 £75.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year -43.67% +140.00% -6.72%

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 1,369 1,288 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.17% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 824 1,163
10th Percentile £278 £263 £205
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £734 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 64
10th Percentile £20.09 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.65 £27.47 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £38.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.84% +75.00% -34.81%
75th Percentile £41.75 £49.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.34% +7.69% +71.05%

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 March 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 March 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 -1 11 £513 -10.87% 10
East London -6 1 £675 +15.38% 1
South London -15 1 £513 +13.89%
West London -23 1 £375 -6.25% 2
North London - 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 7 (7.78%) Confluence
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (44.44%) Azure
2 16 (17.78%) AWS
3 11 (12.22%) GitHub
3 11 (12.22%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) OCI
7 3 (3.33%) SaaS
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (2.22%) Route 53
8 2 (2.22%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 85 (94.44%) WAN
2 53 (58.89%) Firewall
3 35 (38.89%) VPN
4 31 (34.44%) LAN
5 29 (32.22%) Network Security
6 19 (21.11%) BGP
7 18 (20.00%) OSPF
8 12 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (12.22%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (11.11%) MPLS
10 10 (11.11%) NX-OS
11 8 (8.89%) DNS
11 8 (8.89%) Internet
12 7 (7.78%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (7.78%) Wireless
13 6 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (4.44%) IOS XR
14 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
14 4 (4.44%) VLAN
14 4 (4.44%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) JIRA
2 5 (5.56%) GitLab
2 5 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.44%) Git
General
1 18 (20.00%) Finance
2 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Legal
3 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.22%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.67%) Law
5 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Local Government
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Aviation
8 1 (1.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Electronics
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Architect
2 18 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 18 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 7 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 6 (6.67%) Lead
4 6 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 6 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Network Security Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 4 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Senior
7 3 (3.33%) Operations Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) Jinja
2 2 (2.22%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.11%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.33%) IoT
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) SCADA
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.11%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.11%) FMCG
7 1 (1.11%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.11%) NHS
7 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) VMS
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) Agile
2 20 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (21.11%) ITIL
4 17 (18.89%) Change Management
4 17 (18.89%) DevOps
4 17 (18.89%) Migration
5 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (13.33%) Zero Trust
7 11 (12.22%) Network Architecture
8 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (11.11%) Performance Management
8 10 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.00%) Network Design
9 9 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
10 8 (8.89%) PRINCE2
11 7 (7.78%) Load Balancing
11 7 (7.78%) Mentoring
11 7 (7.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) Python
2 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.22%) Bash
3 2 (2.22%) SQL
4 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (14.44%) CCNP
3 12 (13.33%) CCIE
4 3 (3.33%) CCSE
4 3 (3.33%) JNCIE
4 3 (3.33%) JNCIP
4 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) CCNA
5 2 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.22%) PMP
5 2 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) QA
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.11%) PMO
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) FortiGate
2 18 (20.00%) Ansible
2 18 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (3.33%) SCCM
4 2 (2.22%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) CASB
5 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (55.56%) Cisco
2 25 (27.78%) Fortinet
3 22 (24.44%) Palo Alto
4 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
5 18 (20.00%) Aruba
6 14 (15.56%) Zscaler
7 10 (11.11%) F5
8 9 (10.00%) Meraki
9 8 (8.89%) CheckPoint
10 7 (7.78%) Juniper
11 6 (6.67%) Arista
11 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
12 5 (5.56%) VMware
13 4 (4.44%) Oracle
14 3 (3.33%) Remedy
14 3 (3.33%) SAP
14 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
15 2 (2.22%) AVEVA
15 2 (2.22%) Infoblox
15 2 (2.22%) Solace