SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in South London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.37% 0.42% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 4.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £362 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £558 - -
London median daily rate £450 £533 £544
% change year-on-year -15.49% -2.07% +8.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 45 22 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 21.33% 9.32% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 43
10th Percentile - £190 £192
25th Percentile £413 £365 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £638
90th Percentile £608 £538 £675
London median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in South London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in South London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in South London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Bromley - 3 £488 -
Croydon -1 1 £513 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £335 -
SD-WAN
London

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 4 (80.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Design Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) BCP
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Research
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) VMware