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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 267 317
Rank change year-on-year -54 +50 +92
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 91 78 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.58% 6.06% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 58 54
10th Percentile £359 £410 £349
25th Percentile £450 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.20% -12.61%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £575
90th Percentile £800 £675 £723
England median daily rate £520 £500 £494
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.27% -1.25%
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% -50.40%

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 1,384 1,288 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.19% 10.20% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 835 1,172
10th Percentile £288 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 65
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.79 £41.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +86.36% -37.14%
75th Percentile £39.75 £52.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% - +84.21%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -8 12 £600 +4.35% 11
East London 0 1 £675 +15.38% 1
West London -26 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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.25%) Azure
2 17 (18.68%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
4 10 (10.99%) GitHub
5 8 (8.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.30%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.30%) OCI
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.20%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (2.20%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (2.20%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 87 (95.60%) WAN
2 54 (59.34%) Firewall
3 38 (41.76%) VPN
4 32 (35.16%) LAN
5 30 (32.97%) Network Security
6 19 (20.88%) BGP
7 18 (19.78%) OSPF
8 13 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (12.09%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (10.99%) MPLS
10 10 (10.99%) NX-OS
11 9 (9.89%) DNS
11 9 (9.89%) Internet
12 7 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (7.69%) Wireless
13 6 (6.59%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (5.49%) VLAN
15 4 (4.40%) IOS XR
15 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
15 4 (4.40%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) JIRA
2 5 (5.49%) GitLab
2 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.40%) Git
General
1 18 (19.78%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Legal
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.69%) Law
6 6 (6.59%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) Local Government
8 2 (2.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Aviation
9 1 (1.10%) Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) Architect
2 18 (19.78%) Network Architect
2 18 (19.78%) Network Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Lead
5 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Network Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Network Security Architect
6 5 (5.49%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.49%) Senior
7 4 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Network Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Network Project Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) Jinja
2 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.20%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.10%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.49%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) IoT
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) SCADA
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) FMCG
6 1 (1.10%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.20%) VMS
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.27%) Agile
2 19 (20.88%) ITIL
3 18 (19.78%) DevOps
3 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (18.68%) Change Management
4 17 (18.68%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.68%) Migration
5 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (15.38%) Zero Trust
7 11 (12.09%) Network Architecture
7 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.99%) Performance Management
9 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.89%) Network Design
9 9 (9.89%) Network Monitoring
9 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
10 8 (8.79%) Load Balancing
10 8 (8.79%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) Python
2 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.20%) Bash
3 2 (2.20%) SQL
4 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (13.19%) CCNP
3 11 (12.09%) CCIE
4 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.30%) CCSE
5 3 (3.30%) JNCIE
5 3 (3.30%) JNCIP
5 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.20%) CCNA
6 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMP
6 2 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) SLA
2 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.20%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
4 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) FortiGate
1 19 (20.88%) Terraform
2 18 (19.78%) Ansible
3 3 (3.30%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) SCCM
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) CASB
Vendors
1 52 (57.14%) Cisco
2 25 (27.47%) Fortinet
3 22 (24.18%) Palo Alto
4 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 20 (21.98%) Aruba
6 15 (16.48%) Zscaler
7 10 (10.99%) F5
8 9 (9.89%) Meraki
9 8 (8.79%) CheckPoint
9 8 (8.79%) Juniper
10 6 (6.59%) Arista
10 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.40%) Oracle
11 4 (4.40%) VMware
12 3 (3.30%) Remedy
12 3 (3.30%) SAP
12 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
13 2 (2.20%) AVEVA
13 2 (2.20%) Infoblox
13 2 (2.20%) Solace