SD-WAN Contracts in Reading

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 58 87 66
Rank change year-on-year +29 -21 +6
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 2 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.34% 2.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 1.63% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 17
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile - £663 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +27.36% +3.92%
75th Percentile - £688 £754
90th Percentile - - £799
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.83% -4.95% +1.01%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Reading

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Reading

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Aruba
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto