SD-WAN Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 103 142 154
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 8 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.11% 2.84% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile £522 - £424
25th Percentile £525 £600 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +45.95% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £728 £609
90th Percentile £700 £745 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £85.50 -
25th Percentile - £86.25 £83.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £90.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% -
75th Percentile - £93.75 £101.88
90th Percentile - £94.50 £102.25
England median hourly rate £75.00 £31.25 £92.50
% change year-on-year +140.00% -66.22% +236.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +20 5 £635 -2.31% 6
Somerset - 2 £600 -
Gloucestershire +14 1 £525 -26.32% 4
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) ISDN
3 3 (37.50%) PBX
3 3 (37.50%) Unified Communications
3 3 (37.50%) VoIP
4 2 (25.00%) BGP
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) MPLS
4 2 (25.00%) OSPF
4 2 (25.00%) VLAN
4 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (25.00%) WLAN
5 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Billing
2 3 (37.50%) Military
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Network Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) WAN Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Workstream Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Workstream Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) IVR
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (25.00%) Business Development
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (25.00%) Time Management
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) Business Case
3 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) CCIE
3 3 (37.50%) CCNA
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) JNCIE
4 2 (25.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Juniper
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) FireEye
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec