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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 263 309
Rank change year-on-year -71 +46 +81
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 80 79 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.65% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.48% 6.35% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 60 67
10th Percentile £343 £399 £396
25th Percentile £475 £459 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% -13.40%
75th Percentile £738 £603 £585
90th Percentile £800 £700 £653
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.05
25th Percentile - £53.75 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +105.36% -
75th Percentile - £61.25 £31.25
90th Percentile - - £32.75
England median hourly rate £42.25 £57.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -26.52% +91.67% -67.57%

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 1,461 1,245 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.95% 10.31% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 804 1,114
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £411 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +134.40%

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 4 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 4 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 -11 8 £650 +21.27% 11
West London -27 3 £450 +9.09% 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%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.50%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) GCP
3 9 (11.25%) AWS
3 9 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.00%) SaaS
6 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) OCI
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 41 (51.25%) Firewall
3 32 (40.00%) VPN
4 28 (35.00%) Network Security
5 24 (30.00%) LAN
6 19 (23.75%) BGP
7 18 (22.50%) OSPF
8 12 (15.00%) MPLS
9 10 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (11.25%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (8.75%) NX-OS
12 7 (8.75%) VXLAN
13 6 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (7.50%) Wireless
14 5 (6.25%) DNS
14 5 (6.25%) IOS XR
14 5 (6.25%) SSL
14 5 (6.25%) VLAN
15 4 (5.00%) Internet
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%) Legal
2 15 (18.75%) Finance
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
5 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 7 (8.75%) Law
7 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Aviation
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Architect
1 21 (26.25%) Network Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Security Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Network Architect
4 7 (8.75%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Lead
5 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Security Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Network Security Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) Jinja
2 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.50%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Security Posture
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%) 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 14 (17.50%) Windows
2 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) ITIL
2 17 (21.25%) Zero Trust
3 16 (20.00%) Agile
4 15 (18.75%) Migration
4 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.25%) DevOps
6 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 11 (13.75%) Change Management
7 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
9 9 (11.25%) Network Design
9 9 (11.25%) Network Monitoring
9 9 (11.25%) SIEM
10 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.00%) PRINCE2
11 7 (8.75%) Performance Management
11 7 (8.75%) Service Management
11 7 (8.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.50%) SQL
5 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (12.50%) CCNP
3 8 (10.00%) CCIE
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) CCNA
5 2 (2.50%) CCSE
5 2 (2.50%) JNCIE
5 2 (2.50%) JNCIP
5 2 (2.50%) SC 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 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.25%) NCSC
5 1 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.50%) Firmware
4 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 19 (23.75%) Terraform
3 11 (13.75%) Ansible
4 3 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.75%) SCCM
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (52.50%) Cisco
2 25 (31.25%) Palo Alto
3 20 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 18 (22.50%) Fortinet
5 17 (21.25%) Zscaler
6 14 (17.50%) Aruba
7 7 (8.75%) CheckPoint
7 7 (8.75%) F5
7 7 (8.75%) Juniper
8 6 (7.50%) Arista
8 6 (7.50%) VMware
9 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
10 4 (5.00%) Oracle
11 3 (3.75%) Meraki
11 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.50%) AVEVA
12 2 (2.50%) Databricks
12 2 (2.50%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.50%) SAP
12 2 (2.50%) Solace