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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 274 327
Rank change year-on-year -41 +53 +64
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 85 76 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.60% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.07% 5.73% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 59 56
10th Percentile £325 £398 £356
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £578
90th Percentile £800 £675 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
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% -66.22%

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 1,401 1,327 1,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.00% 10.42% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 860 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £265 £210
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% - -10.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 66
10th Percentile £20.08 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.65 £25.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +92.31% -50.54%
75th Percentile £36.32 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.71 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.54% -8.39% +111.30%

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 23 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 23 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 -7 11 £600 +11.94% 4
East London -4 1 £675 +15.38% 1
West London -31 1 £375 -9.09%
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 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.88%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) AWS
2 11 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (8.24%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.06%) GCP
6 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.71%) GitHub
7 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.53%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.53%) OCI
8 3 (3.53%) SaaS
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.35%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (2.35%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (2.35%) Route 53
9 2 (2.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 81 (95.29%) WAN
2 48 (56.47%) Firewall
3 33 (38.82%) VPN
4 31 (36.47%) LAN
4 31 (36.47%) Network Security
5 18 (21.18%) BGP
5 18 (21.18%) OSPF
6 13 (15.29%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (12.94%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (11.76%) NX-OS
9 9 (10.59%) MPLS
10 8 (9.41%) Internet
11 7 (8.24%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (8.24%) Wireless
12 6 (7.06%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (7.06%) DNS
12 6 (7.06%) VLAN
13 4 (4.71%) IOS XR
13 4 (4.71%) VXLAN
13 4 (4.71%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) JIRA
General
1 18 (21.18%) Finance
2 16 (18.82%) Legal
3 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
6 7 (8.24%) Law
7 6 (7.06%) Financial Institution
8 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.53%) Local Government
10 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.35%) Retail
11 1 (1.18%) Aviation
11 1 (1.18%) Banking
11 1 (1.18%) Electronics
11 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (32.94%) Architect
2 18 (21.18%) Network Engineer
3 17 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 8 (9.41%) Security Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Lead
6 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (7.06%) Network Manager
6 6 (7.06%) Network Security Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Network Security Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Senior
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Network Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Network Project Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) Jinja
2 2 (2.35%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.88%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) IoT
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) SCADA
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) FMCG
6 1 (1.18%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.18%) NHS
6 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.82%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.35%) VMS
4 1 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) ITIL
2 18 (21.18%) Agile
2 18 (21.18%) Change Management
3 17 (20.00%) Migration
3 17 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (17.65%) Zero Trust
5 12 (14.12%) DevOps
6 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (11.76%) Performance Management
7 10 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
8 9 (10.59%) Network Design
8 9 (10.59%) Network Monitoring
8 9 (10.59%) PRINCE2
9 8 (9.41%) Load Balancing
9 8 (9.41%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.24%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.94%) Python
2 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.53%) Bash
4 2 (2.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (16.47%) CCNP
3 11 (12.94%) CCIE
4 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.53%) CCSE
4 3 (3.53%) JNCIE
4 3 (3.53%) JNCIP
4 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) CCNA
5 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.35%) PMP
5 2 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) SLA
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.53%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) NCSC
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
4 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (16.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (23.53%) FortiGate
2 14 (16.47%) Terraform
3 12 (14.12%) Ansible
4 4 (4.71%) SCCM
5 3 (3.53%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (58.82%) Cisco
2 22 (25.88%) Microsoft
3 21 (24.71%) Fortinet
3 21 (24.71%) Palo Alto
4 16 (18.82%) Aruba
5 15 (17.65%) Zscaler
6 10 (11.76%) F5
7 9 (10.59%) CheckPoint
7 9 (10.59%) Juniper
7 9 (10.59%) Meraki
8 6 (7.06%) Arista
8 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
9 5 (5.88%) VMware
10 4 (4.71%) Oracle
11 3 (3.53%) Remedy
11 3 (3.53%) SAP
11 3 (3.53%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.35%) AVEVA
12 2 (2.35%) Databricks
12 2 (2.35%) Solace