SD-WAN Contracts in Berkshire

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 81 104
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -18
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 14 34 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.73% 1.93% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.15% 9.88% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 16
10th Percentile £303 £325 £375
25th Percentile £363 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +6.06% +23.36%
75th Percentile £588 £724 £541
90th Percentile £648 £799 £598
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.06% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate - £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -
75th Percentile - £31.00 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

SD-WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 444 344 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 23.13% 19.49% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 187 229
10th Percentile £205 £300 £271
25th Percentile £310 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £467
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +4.50% +23.39%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £560
90th Percentile - £690 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.96% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 7
10th Percentile £71.75 £20.50 -
25th Percentile £79.94 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £76.99 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +352.88% -45.16%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £47.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.30 £73.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -42.28%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in Berkshire

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Bracknell -4 8 £276 -21.29%
Reading -20 6 £675 +3.85% 1
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) WAN
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) BGP
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
3 5 (35.71%) MPLS
4 3 (21.43%) Internet
4 3 (21.43%) IPsec
4 3 (21.43%) LAN
4 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
5 2 (14.29%) GGSN
5 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (14.29%) Network Security
5 2 (14.29%) OSPF
5 2 (14.29%) VoIP
5 2 (14.29%) Wireless
6 1 (7.14%) DMVPN
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (7.14%) Junos
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Advertising
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Support
4 1 (7.14%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Product Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (35.71%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (35.71%) Proactive Monitoring
1 5 (35.71%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Product Management
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum
4 1 (7.14%) Time Management
4 1 (7.14%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Aruba
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Blue Coat
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) McAfee
4 1 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Zscaler