SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 4.00% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Somerset median daily rate £588 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 16.00% 4.17% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £262 - £662
25th Percentile £415 - £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.52%
75th Percentile £638 - £741
90th Percentile £705 - £748
Somerset median daily rate £275 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -45.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.68%
Somerset median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year +384.62% -74.95% +141.35%

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware