SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Wales

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 45 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.70% 0.88% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £348 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.09% - -
75th Percentile £385 £588 -
90th Percentile £394 - -
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £506
% change year-on-year -5.52% +3.70% +6.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 42 60 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.86% 13.13% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 32 58
10th Percentile £164 £145 £192
25th Percentile £190 £208 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £248 £350
Median % change year-on-year +17.17% -29.34% -22.17%
75th Percentile £300 £400 £550
90th Percentile £415 £546 £629
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 0
Median hourly rate £12.82 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.01% - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.13% -12.67% +35.55%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Wales

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
South Wales +1 2 £335 -41.74% 2
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Modbus
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Supervisor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) 3D Printing
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Enablement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet