SD-WAN Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 151 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -23
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 13 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.35% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.54% 2.00% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 15
10th Percentile £613 £424 £349
25th Percentile £625 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -5.13% +21.88%
75th Percentile £713 £609 £519
90th Percentile £725 £683 £540
England median daily rate £488 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -1.27% -1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £85.50 - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £83.75 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% - -
75th Percentile £93.75 £101.88 -
90th Percentile £94.50 £102.25 -
England median hourly rate £31.25 £92.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -66.22% +239.45% -46.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 511 600 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.21% 17.29% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 386 287
10th Percentile £294 £208 £217
25th Percentile £463 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +15.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £556
90th Percentile £700 £719 £622
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 118 31
10th Percentile £12.55 - £41.43
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.48
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +8.02%
75th Percentile £68.46 £59.67 £64.62
90th Percentile £83.60 £76.44 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the South West

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol +16 6 £650 +40.46% 2
Wiltshire +3 4 - - 3
Gloucestershire - 2 £700 -
Devon -1 1 £600 - 1
SD-WAN
England

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) WAN
2 8 (61.54%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) LAN
4 3 (23.08%) PBX
4 3 (23.08%) VoIP
5 2 (15.38%) MPLS
5 2 (15.38%) VPN
6 1 (7.69%) DNS
6 1 (7.69%) Internet
6 1 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (7.69%) NGFW
6 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
6 1 (7.69%) Wireless
6 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
6 1 (7.69%) WLAN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Network Architect
4 3 (23.08%) Field Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Baseband Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) LAN Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Network Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNA
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk