SD-WAN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 108 133
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 16 38 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.61% 1.34% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.91% 8.17% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 18
10th Percentile £266 £330 £375
25th Percentile £269 £419 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +1.01% +23.36%
75th Percentile £506 £684 £547
90th Percentile £615 £792 £596
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.06% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate - £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -
75th Percentile - £31.00 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 549 465 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.93% 16.35% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 286 355
10th Percentile £205 £291 £211
25th Percentile £350 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £594 £579 £550
90th Percentile £638 £663 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.96% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 21
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.90 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.58 £25.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -38.18%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.22 £26.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -42.28%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in the Thames Valley

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire -25 14 £475 -9.48% 1
Buckinghamshire +26 2 £300 -33.33% 2
SD-WAN
South East

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) WAN
2 8 (50.00%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) BGP
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) LAN
3 5 (31.25%) MPLS
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (18.75%) Internet
4 3 (18.75%) IPsec
4 3 (18.75%) Network Security
4 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
5 2 (12.50%) GGSN
5 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (12.50%) OSPF
5 2 (12.50%) Wireless
5 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.25%) Advertising
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Network Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) WAN Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Support
5 1 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (31.25%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (31.25%) Proactive Monitoring
1 5 (31.25%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Change Control
4 1 (6.25%) Change Management
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) Product Management
4 1 (6.25%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum
4 1 (6.25%) Time Management
4 1 (6.25%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (18.75%) CCNA
5 2 (12.50%) CCNP
6 1 (6.25%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Aruba
3 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
3 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Fujitsu
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) McAfee
4 1 (6.25%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler