SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Surrey

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.83% 1.32% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.45% 11.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £471 £283 -
25th Percentile £484 £294 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% - -
75th Percentile £534 £456 -
90th Percentile £544 £528 -
South East median daily rate £494 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -5.95% -7.81% +13.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 36 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 12.89% 11.84% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 72
10th Percentile £204 £250 £186
25th Percentile £313 £285 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £425 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -6.59% +44.44%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £536
90th Percentile - £523 £643
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% +60.00% -61.11%
75th Percentile - £29.44 £43.13
90th Percentile - £32.03 £57.75
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.42% -4.10% +27.44%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Surrey

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Leatherhead - 4 £513 -
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Migration Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Network Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) WAN Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BT
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Commvault
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Xerox