Software-Defined Networking Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software-Defined Networking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.090% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 84 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.08% 15.44% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 47 69
10th Percentile £272 £222 £273
25th Percentile £314 £243 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.15% -7.00%
75th Percentile £535 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £738 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £420 £453
% change year-on-year +7.14% -7.28% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £17.34 - -
25th Percentile £19.34 £40.50 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -44.37% +195.60% -57.32%
75th Percentile £25.77 £41.50 £14.25
90th Percentile £27.11 - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year -44.37% +124.41% +71.87%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Software-Defined Networking job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Software-Defined Networking
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Leeds - 1 - - 2
Software-Defined Networking
Yorkshire

Software-Defined Networking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5