SD-WAN Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 154 164 204
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 -40
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 30 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.74% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.37% 6.24% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 20
10th Percentile £284 £288 £384
25th Percentile £378 £341 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -26.19% +16.67%
75th Percentile £433 £550 £566
90th Percentile £610 £599 £650
England median daily rate £488 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.50% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 559 673 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.06% 11.78% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 454 626
10th Percentile £200 £200 £181
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £612 £568 £550
90th Percentile £765 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £524 £500
% change year-on-year -5.49% +4.75% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 25
10th Percentile £13.31 - £12.55
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.23
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -42.54% +5.71%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.72 £23.53
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.00 £52.13
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +11 24 £433 +8.13% 10
Yorkshire +21 5 £405 +24.52% 6
North East +13 1 £613 +2.08% 1
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (56.67%) DMZ
2 16 (53.33%) Wireless
3 13 (43.33%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (43.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (33.33%) WAN
5 5 (16.67%) Firewall
6 4 (13.33%) LAN
6 4 (13.33%) Network Security
7 2 (6.67%) VPN
8 1 (3.33%) IPsec
8 1 (3.33%) MPLS
8 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.33%) WLAN
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (86.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Network Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Network Support
4 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (53.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) ITSM
2 3 (10.00%) Network Management
3 2 (6.67%) Agile
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (6.67%) Migration
3 2 (6.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (6.67%) Network Design
3 2 (6.67%) Workflow
4 1 (3.33%) Business Transformation
4 1 (3.33%) Capacity Management
4 1 (3.33%) Change Management
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (3.33%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (3.33%) Presales
4 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) CCNP
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CCNA
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) Cisco
2 16 (53.33%) F5
2 16 (53.33%) Palo Alto
3 6 (20.00%) Meraki
4 4 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) Aruba
5 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.67%) Nortel
5 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.33%) Radianz
6 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds