Software-Defined Networking Contracts in London

Software-Defined Networking
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 470 580
Rank change year-on-year +81 +110 -111
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 6 10 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.039% 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.39% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 24
10th Percentile £366 £526 £275
25th Percentile £389 £595 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £629 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.45% -3.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £516 £731 £675
90th Percentile £641 £775 £743
England median daily rate £525 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,663 2,582 3,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.99% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,812 2,524
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +3.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 57 85
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.57 £20.93
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% +14.29% -29.51%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.45
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in London

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in London

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in London

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) People Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) AlgoSec
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Turbonomic