SD-WAN Contracts in the Midlands

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 133 176
Rank change year-on-year +25 +43 -36
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 26 34 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.96% 1.01% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.52% 6.64% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £225 £283 £309
25th Percentile £291 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +76.79% -12.50% -16.88%
75th Percentile £775 £388 £450
90th Percentile - £424 £529
England median daily rate £488 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.50% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 471 512 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.43% 15.26% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 336 390
10th Percentile £200 £249 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £602
England median daily rate £495 £524 £500
% change year-on-year -5.49% +4.75% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.35 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +16.10% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £23.68 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +20 26 £619 +90.38% 14
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) WAN
2 13 (50.00%) LAN
3 12 (46.15%) MPLS
3 12 (46.15%) VPN
4 10 (38.46%) Firewall
5 9 (34.62%) DNS
6 6 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (23.08%) VoIP
7 5 (19.23%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (19.23%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (19.23%) DHCP
7 5 (19.23%) Internet
7 5 (19.23%) PBX
7 5 (19.23%) WLAN
8 3 (11.54%) BGP
8 3 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (7.69%) IPsec
9 2 (7.69%) Junos
9 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) WAN Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Programme Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.85%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Network Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Network Support
6 1 (3.85%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Project Delivery
2 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 6 (23.08%) Network Architecture
3 5 (19.23%) Analytics
3 5 (19.23%) Architectural Design
3 5 (19.23%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (19.23%) Data Analytics
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (19.23%) Performance Management
3 5 (19.23%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (19.23%) Programme Management
3 5 (19.23%) Resource Management
3 5 (19.23%) Security Monitoring
3 5 (19.23%) SOA
3 5 (19.23%) Storage Management
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (19.23%) TOGAF
4 4 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) CCIE
2 5 (19.23%) CCIE Data Center
3 4 (15.38%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) ISO 9000
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Cisco
2 7 (26.92%) Juniper
3 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 5 (19.23%) CheckPoint
4 5 (19.23%) Infoblox
4 5 (19.23%) Symantec
4 5 (19.23%) Zscaler
5 4 (15.38%) VMware
6 3 (11.54%) Fujitsu
6 3 (11.54%) McAfee
7 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.85%) Aruba