SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.92% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £756 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - -
75th Percentile £780 - -
90th Percentile £786 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £763 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 22 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.80% 11.58% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 11 43
10th Percentile £339 £274 £381
25th Percentile £510 £475 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £610 £546 £550
90th Percentile £648 £560 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £22.55
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £14.20 £22.52
% change year-on-year +23.24% -36.94% +18.53%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Milton Keynes

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (85.71%) LAN
2 6 (85.71%) MPLS
3 5 (71.43%) BGP
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (71.43%) IPsec
3 5 (71.43%) OSPF
4 4 (57.14%) BIG-IP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (57.14%) DNS
4 4 (57.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (57.14%) VLAN
5 3 (42.86%) Network Security
5 3 (42.86%) NGFW
6 2 (28.57%) ICMP
6 2 (28.57%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Network Architect
3 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
4 3 (42.86%) Lead
4 3 (42.86%) Lead Architect
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Leader
5 2 (28.57%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (28.57%) Senior
5 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
5 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (71.43%) Private Cloud
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (42.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
1 6 (85.71%) Network Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Zero Trust
2 5 (71.43%) TOGAF
3 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) DDoS Mitigation
4 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) CCNP
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (42.86%) CCIE
5 3 (42.86%) Degree
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (14.29%) CCDA
7 1 (14.29%) CCDP
7 1 (14.29%) CCIP
7 1 (14.29%) CCNA
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware NSX
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) CASB
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Palo Alto
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 4 (57.14%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Google
5 1 (14.29%) Arista
5 1 (14.29%) Aruba
5 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Juniper
5 1 (14.29%) Meraki
5 1 (14.29%) Zscaler