Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in the South West

Software-Defined Networking
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 113 142
Rank change year-on-year -40 +29 +10
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.082% 0.10% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.94% 0.79% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £144 £526 -
25th Percentile £223 £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £543 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% - -
75th Percentile £515 £565 -
90th Percentile £600 £571 -
England median daily rate £520 £574 £563
% change year-on-year -9.37% +2.00% -8.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.53 - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Software-Defined Networking 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 318 252 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.67% 13.04% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 160 296
10th Percentile £210 £213 £288
25th Percentile £400 £320 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -8.07% +1.52%
75th Percentile £631 £614 £632
90th Percentile £723 £669 £675
England median daily rate £500 £492 £504
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.38% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 4 40
10th Percentile £12.71 £26.70 £12.32
25th Percentile £19.33 £40.07 £13.58
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +15.06%
75th Percentile £90.00 £65.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £99.76 - £75.30
England median hourly rate £28.00 £43.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -34.88% -21.64% -0.23%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software-Defined Networking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in the South West

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Software-Defined Networking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in the South West over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the South West

Software-Defined Networking
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Software-Defined Networking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Software-Defined Networking

Software-Defined Networking
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 Software-Defined Networking within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 August 2026. 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
Somerset -27 3 £364 -31.92%
Software-Defined Networking
England

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) VSAN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware