Software-Defined Networking Contracts in England

Software-Defined Networking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software-Defined Networking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 607 727
Rank change year-on-year +92 +120 -139
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 18 33 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.068% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.56% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 39
10th Percentile £381 £450 £275
25th Percentile £416 £576 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £633 £586
% change year-on-year -17.00% +7.94% +30.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £51.63 £43.73
25th Percentile - £54.52 £45.85
Median hourly rate - £57.33 £49.52
Median % change year-on-year - +15.77% -12.35%
75th Percentile - £59.18 £52.25
90th Percentile - £60.25 £54.92
UK median hourly rate - £57.33 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +15.77% -12.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Software-Defined Networking 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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,792 5,941 7,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.16% 12.26% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 3,880 5,203
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 421 317
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.15
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.50 £63.18
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in England.

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in England

Software-Defined Networking
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +90 6 £438 -30.45% 2
North of England +34 5 £600 +4.35% 4
North West +18 5 £600 +4.35% 2
South West +9 5 £569 -7.52% 2
South East +21 3 - - 4
West Midlands +20 1 - -
Midlands +19 1 - -
Software-Defined Networking
UK

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Wireless
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 3 (16.67%) DNS
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) BGP
5 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security
5 2 (11.11%) OSPF
5 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.56%) Junos
6 1 (5.56%) LAN
6 1 (5.56%) Skype
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) VPN
6 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Legal
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Cisco Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Network Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Architect
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) VMS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
4 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 3 (16.67%) Test Planning
6 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (11.11%) Information Security
6 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (5.56%) Change Control
7 1 (5.56%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) CCNP
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (22.22%) CCNA
4 4 (22.22%) Degree
4 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (16.67%) CCIE
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (11.11%) VCAP
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (5.56%) HP ASE
7 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.11%) Firmware
4 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.11%) vRealize
2 2 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) AlgoSec
4 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.11%) F5
4 2 (11.11%) Infoblox
4 2 (11.11%) Juniper
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.56%) Dell
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Turbonomic