SD-WAN Contracts in Scotland

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 124 142
Rank change year-on-year +16 +18 +33
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 11 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.18% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.86% 1.61% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 12
10th Percentile £413 £458 £357
25th Percentile £417 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +11.11% +24.14%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £500
90th Percentile £499 £563 £534
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -1.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 140 249 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.67% 11.22% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 149 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £522 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Scotland

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Scotland

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Edinburgh +9 5 £425 - 1
Aberdeen - 3 £475 -
Glasgow +3 2 £438 -12.50% 5
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) VPN
3 5 (45.45%) IPsec
3 5 (45.45%) Network Security
4 4 (36.36%) BGP
4 4 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (36.36%) EIGRP
4 4 (36.36%) LAN
4 4 (36.36%) OSPF
4 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (36.36%) Wireless
5 3 (27.27%) 4G
5 3 (27.27%) Unified Communications
6 1 (9.09%) MPLS
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (18.18%) WAN Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Field Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
1 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Line Management
2 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Network Design
4 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (36.36%) CCNP
3 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (9.09%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
1 8 (72.73%) Palo Alto
2 5 (45.45%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) BT
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) Snow
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds