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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 256 296
Rank change year-on-year -127 +40 +61
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 66 103 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.78% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 7.66% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 80 74
10th Percentile £425 £359 £440
25th Percentile £480 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -8.68% -3.10%
75th Percentile £722 £575 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £646
England median daily rate £511 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.25% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £61.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.13 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -37.17% -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 1,633 1,344 1,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.14% 10.17% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 859 985
10th Percentile £300 £287 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £713 £719
England median daily rate £500 £490 £505
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 35 24
10th Percentile £19.40 £18.63 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £25.15 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% +2.28% -24.05%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £61.85 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.75 £41.48 £57.35
% change year-on-year -33.09% -27.68% +1.52%

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 September 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 September 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 -24 10 £650 +21.27% 12
West London -49 3 £525 +23.53% 3
South London -14 1 - - 2
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 2 (3.03%) Confluence
1 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) AutoCAD
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) GCP
4 6 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.06%) GitHub
7 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.55%) OCI
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (3.03%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.52%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.52%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.52%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.52%) SaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (100.00%) WAN
2 34 (51.52%) Firewall
3 32 (48.48%) VPN
4 24 (36.36%) Network Security
5 20 (30.30%) LAN
6 18 (27.27%) BGP
7 15 (22.73%) OSPF
8 14 (21.21%) MPLS
9 11 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (12.12%) DNS
11 7 (10.61%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (9.09%) Internet
12 6 (9.09%) Wireless
13 5 (7.58%) TCP/IP
14 4 (6.06%) DHCP
14 4 (6.06%) Ethernet VPN
14 4 (6.06%) IPsec
14 4 (6.06%) SSL
14 4 (6.06%) VLAN
14 4 (6.06%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.52%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (1.52%) Power BI
1 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 6 (9.09%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Retail
5 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Legal
7 2 (3.03%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Network Engineer
2 13 (19.70%) Security Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Architect
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Lead
6 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Consultant
7 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Security Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Technical Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) IT Support
8 3 (4.55%) Network Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) Terraform
2 2 (3.03%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.03%) REST
2 2 (3.03%) RFC 2544
3 1 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.55%) IoT
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) EPoS
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.52%) VMS
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 19 (28.79%) Migration
3 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (19.70%) Cloud Security
6 11 (16.67%) Agile
6 11 (16.67%) DevOps
6 11 (16.67%) ITIL
7 10 (15.15%) Service Management
8 9 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (13.64%) SIEM
9 8 (12.12%) Decision-Making
9 8 (12.12%) Load Balancing
10 7 (10.61%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.61%) Network Segmentation
10 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
11 6 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.09%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.15%) Bash
4 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (15.15%) CCNP
3 6 (9.09%) CCNA
3 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) CCIE
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.03%) CCIE Security
5 2 (3.03%) CISSP
6 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.52%) Degree
6 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) NIST
1 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) NCSC
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 6 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.03%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Ansible
2 8 (12.12%) FortiGate
3 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.52%) SCCM
6 1 (1.52%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 35 (53.03%) Cisco
2 26 (39.39%) Palo Alto
3 13 (19.70%) Fortinet
3 13 (19.70%) Zscaler
4 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.09%) Meraki
5 6 (9.09%) VMware
6 5 (7.58%) Juniper
7 4 (6.06%) Aruba
7 4 (6.06%) F5
8 3 (4.55%) Google
8 3 (4.55%) Oracle
9 2 (3.03%) Apple
9 2 (3.03%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.52%) Citrix
10 1 (1.52%) Forcepoint
10 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.52%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (1.52%) Okta
10 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow