SD-WAN Contracts in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 142 170
Rank change year-on-year +16 +28 -18
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 4 21 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.73% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.60% 5.97% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 3
10th Percentile £458 £357 -
25th Percentile £469 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £363
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +24.14% -19.44%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £394
90th Percentile £563 £534 £409
UK median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

SD-WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 250 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.21% 12.32% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 192
10th Percentile £187 £160 £177
25th Percentile £363 £356 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%

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 26 April 2024. 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 +34 2 - - 2
Glasgow +5 2 £500 +25.00% 4
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) BYOD
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Network Management
1 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Observium
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler