SD-WAN Contracts in London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 312 370
Rank change year-on-year +32 +58 +49
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 70 85 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.44% 5.09% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 66 54
10th Percentile £389 £395 £429
25th Percentile £450 £440 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -9.68% +13.14%
75th Percentile £675 £585 £743
90th Percentile £700 £644 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 £23.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £23.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +144.68% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £23.50 £92.50
% change year-on-year +144.68% -74.59% +239.45%

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 1,287 1,669 2,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.26% 9.44% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1,109 1,807
10th Percentile £263 £225 £250
25th Percentile £398 £350 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £669
90th Percentile £725 £738 £772
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -0.92% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 50 49
10th Percentile £18.88 £14.46 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.40 £22.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.65 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -35.28% +40.54%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £18.93
% change year-on-year -18.27% +142.37% -20.83%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in London.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in London

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in London.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in London

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 22 June 2025. 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 11 £536 +7.20% 49
West London +20 6 £400 -23.81% 10
East London +13 5 £585 - 14
South London - 2 £450 -
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.71%) Azure
2 21 (30.00%) AWS
3 8 (11.43%) Entra ID
3 8 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.29%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.43%) Akamai
7 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.43%) PaaS
7 1 (1.43%) SaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (91.43%) WAN
2 54 (77.14%) Firewall
3 25 (35.71%) LAN
4 21 (30.00%) Network Security
5 19 (27.14%) VPN
5 19 (27.14%) Wireless
6 18 (25.71%) BGP
6 18 (25.71%) OSPF
7 16 (22.86%) DNS
8 15 (21.43%) MPLS
9 11 (15.71%) DHCP
9 11 (15.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 10 (14.29%) VLAN
10 10 (14.29%) WLAN
11 9 (12.86%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (12.86%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (8.57%) EIGRP
13 6 (8.57%) SSL
14 5 (7.14%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Legal
4 5 (7.14%) Law
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Local Government
7 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Network Engineer
2 11 (15.71%) Architect
3 8 (11.43%) Security Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Senior
5 6 (8.57%) Lead
5 6 (8.57%) WAN Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Active Directory Support
7 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.71%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Administrator
8 3 (4.29%) Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Network Administrator
8 3 (4.29%) Network Delivery Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.43%) FMCG
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.29%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.43%) ITIL
5 7 (10.00%) Change Management
5 7 (10.00%) Migration
5 7 (10.00%) Network Management
6 6 (8.57%) Patch Management
7 5 (7.14%) Agile
7 5 (7.14%) Project Management
8 4 (5.71%) Analytics
8 4 (5.71%) Business Continuity
8 4 (5.71%) Change Control
8 4 (5.71%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.71%) High Availability
8 4 (5.71%) Roadmaps
8 4 (5.71%) Security Patching
8 4 (5.71%) TOGAF
8 4 (5.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.71%) SQL
2 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (24.29%) CCNP
3 5 (7.14%) CCNA
3 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) CCSA
4 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.71%) Degree
4 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.29%) CCIE
5 3 (4.29%) CISA
5 3 (4.29%) CISM
5 3 (4.29%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.86%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.43%) CWDP
7 1 (1.43%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GRC
1 4 (5.71%) NIST
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.71%) Firmware
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (4.29%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (4.29%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.29%) SCCM
4 1 (1.43%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) OPNET
Vendors
1 40 (57.14%) Cisco
2 28 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 17 (24.29%) Fortinet
4 14 (20.00%) Meraki
4 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 13 (18.57%) Juniper
6 12 (17.14%) F5
7 9 (12.86%) Aruba
8 8 (11.43%) CheckPoint
9 5 (7.14%) Zscaler
10 3 (4.29%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (2.86%) Facebook
11 2 (2.86%) Instagram
11 2 (2.86%) VMware
12 1 (1.43%) Brocade
12 1 (1.43%) Dell
12 1 (1.43%) HP
12 1 (1.43%) ScienceLogic
12 1 (1.43%) SonicWALL