SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in West London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 30 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 31 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in West London 9.84% 0.94% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.06% 4.88% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 2 3
10th Percentile £358 - £313
25th Percentile £400 £463 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £388
90th Percentile £500 - -
London median daily rate £450 £533 £544
% change year-on-year -15.49% -2.07% +9.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 72 41 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 22.86% 19.25% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 29 51
10th Percentile £312 £194 £133
25th Percentile £369 £220 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £388
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -3.35% -9.24%
75th Percentile £500 £450 £519
90th Percentile £523 £518 £613
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - £23.59 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year - -47.87% +21.57%
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - £80.40
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in West London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in West London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in West London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Hillingdon - 26 £425 -
SD-WAN
London

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (96.77%) Firewall
2 27 (87.10%) LAN
3 21 (67.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 21 (67.74%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (61.29%) WAN
5 11 (35.48%) Network Security
6 10 (32.26%) VPN
7 7 (22.58%) BGP
7 7 (22.58%) OSPF
8 6 (19.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (19.35%) VLAN
9 5 (16.13%) Cisco Wireless
9 5 (16.13%) DHCP
9 5 (16.13%) DNS
9 5 (16.13%) SSL
9 5 (16.13%) Wireless
9 5 (16.13%) WLAN
10 4 (12.90%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (12.90%) DMVPN
10 4 (12.90%) EIGRP
General
1 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Architect
2 13 (41.94%) Network Architect
3 9 (29.03%) Network Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Network Design Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Security Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Technical Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Cisco Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Design Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Cisco Network Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Designer
7 2 (6.45%) Network Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Network Designer
7 2 (6.45%) Network Security Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Security Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Design Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Network Design
2 4 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (9.68%) Patch Management
3 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.45%) Migration
5 1 (3.23%) Incident Response
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL
5 1 (3.23%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (3.23%) Runbook
5 1 (3.23%) Security Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Tech Ops
5 1 (3.23%) TOGAF
5 1 (3.23%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (25.81%) CCNP
5 5 (16.13%) CCSA
6 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.45%) CCIE
7 1 (3.23%) CCSE
7 1 (3.23%) CEH
7 1 (3.23%) CISSP
7 1 (3.23%) JNCIE
7 1 (3.23%) JNCIP
7 1 (3.23%) MCITP
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GRC
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Firmware
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (93.55%) Cisco
2 21 (67.74%) Fortinet
3 7 (22.58%) Juniper
4 6 (19.35%) CheckPoint
4 6 (19.35%) F5
5 5 (16.13%) Meraki
6 4 (12.90%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.45%) Qualys
7 2 (6.45%) Tenable
8 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.23%) Remedy
8 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.23%) Zscaler