Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Software-Defined Networking
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.13% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £520 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

Software-Defined Networking 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 76 17 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.90% 10.18% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 12 58
10th Percentile £313 £283 £369
25th Percentile £465 £447 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £607 £558
90th Percentile £643 £630 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £518
% change year-on-year +10.34% -2.03% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.58
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.55
% change year-on-year - -37.03% +18.68%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Software-Defined Networking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) CATAPAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Becrypt
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware