SD-WAN Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 127 159
Rank change year-on-year +14 +32 +6
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 10 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.40% 3.29% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 20
10th Percentile £379 £463 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +7.69% +5.41%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £603
90th Percentile £572 £585 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £487
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.91% +3.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

SD-WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 294 456 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.26% 15.93% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 305 446
10th Percentile £273 £325 £199
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% +2.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £605
90th Percentile £825 £647 £638
England median daily rate £508 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +1.50% -1.96% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 6
10th Percentile £25.43 £15.72 £11.14
25th Percentile £37.55 £15.75 £16.09
Median hourly rate £48.56 £16.68 £30.29
Median % change year-on-year +191.13% -44.93% +90.97%
75th Percentile £51.91 £46.88 £54.93
90th Percentile £57.65 £49.35 £64.38
England median hourly rate £57.35 £56.49 £42.00
% change year-on-year +1.52% +34.50% +90.91%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North West over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the North West

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Manchester +15 8 £510 -5.12% 12
Cheshire - 2 £425 - 1
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) WAN
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (40.00%) Network Security
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) MPLS
5 2 (20.00%) BGP
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
5 2 (20.00%) OSPF
5 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (10.00%) DHCP
6 1 (10.00%) DMZ
6 1 (10.00%) DNS
6 1 (10.00%) IPsec
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) VLAN
6 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Presales Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Logistics
3 1 (10.00%) Network Management
3 1 (10.00%) Presales
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CCNA
1 5 (50.00%) CCNP
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCIE
2 2 (20.00%) CCSA
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) AlgoSec
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Nortel
3 1 (10.00%) Radianz