Software-Defined Networking Contracts in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 180 218
Rank change year-on-year +19 +38 +13
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.10% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 0.83% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - - £576
25th Percentile £463 - £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -5.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £550 - £672
90th Percentile £640 - £689
England median daily rate £600 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +19.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the North of England

Software-Defined Networking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +17 5 £535 -10.83% 4
Software-Defined Networking
England

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (40.00%) DWDM
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) MPLS
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) IGMP
4 1 (20.00%) Multicast
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) LAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (40.00%) Aruba
3 2 (40.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) F5