Software-Defined Networking Contracts

Software-Defined Networking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software-Defined Networking 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 515 600 784
Rank change year-on-year +85 +184 -58
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 51 46 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.092% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.12% 0.69% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 53
10th Percentile £500 £401 £275
25th Percentile £506 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £592 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.42% +17.07%
75th Percentile £688 £705 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £558 £600
% change year-on-year +7.62% -7.08% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £51.46
25th Percentile - - £52.49
Median hourly rate - £69.62 £55.45
Median % change year-on-year - +25.55% -1.86%
75th Percentile - £69.88 £58.35
90th Percentile - £70.34 £59.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £69.62 £55.45
% change year-on-year - +25.55% -1.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Software-Defined Networking 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,570 6,633 10,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.90% 13.30% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,660 4,214 6,741
10th Percentile £227 £228 £243
25th Percentile £375 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +9.89% +1.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 313 362
10th Percentile £14.16 £16.55 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.37 £22.75 £17.56
Median hourly rate £50.25 £56.49 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +36.90% +83.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £61.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.67 £70.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -0.26% +27.78% +119.41%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking.

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking.

Hourly rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the UK 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
England +80 45 £588 -6.60% 20
UK excluding London +46 30 £600 +7.62% 13
Work from Home +94 17 £500 +17.65% 6
London +74 13 £535 -17.69% 6
South East +24 10 £700 -6.67% 6
West Midlands +14 9 £500 +11.11% 2
Midlands +13 9 £500 +11.11% 2
North of England +35 7 £600 +26.32% 1
North West +20 5 £600 +26.32% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Scotland +32 1 - -
South West +11 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (9.80%) Azure
1 5 (9.80%) IaaS
2 4 (7.84%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.96%) Kong
5 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (33.33%) Firewall
2 11 (21.57%) WAN
3 10 (19.61%) SD-WAN
4 9 (17.65%) Network Security
5 8 (15.69%) LAN
6 7 (13.73%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (13.73%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (13.73%) VLAN
7 6 (11.76%) VPN
7 6 (11.76%) VXLAN
8 5 (9.80%) Wireless
9 4 (7.84%) BGP
10 3 (5.88%) NaaS
10 3 (5.88%) OSPF
10 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (5.88%) WLAN
11 2 (3.92%) DHCP
11 2 (3.92%) DNS
11 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
12 1 (1.96%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) ArangoDB
1 2 (3.92%) InfluxDB
1 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (7.84%) GitLab
3 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Finance
2 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Electronics
4 3 (5.88%) Legal
4 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Architect
2 16 (31.37%) Network Engineer
3 14 (27.45%) Network Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
4 5 (9.80%) VMware Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Rollout Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Rollout Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.88%) VMware Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (1.96%) Lead Network Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Messaging Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) OSS Project Manager
8 1 (1.96%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) RESTful
2 5 (9.80%) gRPC
2 5 (9.80%) JSON
2 5 (9.80%) Protocol Buffers
2 5 (9.80%) YANG
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) TM Forum
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.96%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.53%) Agile
3 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
3 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (13.73%) Network Planning
3 7 (13.73%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (13.73%) Performance Management
4 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.80%) Data Modelling
5 5 (9.80%) Open Source
5 5 (9.80%) Task Automation
6 4 (7.84%) BDD
6 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (7.84%) Fault Management
6 4 (7.84%) Inventory Management
6 4 (7.84%) Open Source Development
7 3 (5.88%) Low Latency
7 3 (5.88%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.96%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (68.63%) Security Cleared
2 21 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (27.45%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (25.49%) CCIE
5 11 (21.57%) VCAP
6 6 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (9.80%) Degree
8 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.92%) CCNA
9 2 (3.92%) CCNP
9 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (25.49%) VMware NSX
2 8 (15.69%) vSphere
3 2 (3.92%) Docker
3 2 (3.92%) IAG
4 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Ansible
2 8 (15.69%) vRealize
2 8 (15.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 7 (13.73%) Terraform
4 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.96%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) SCCM
6 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Cisco
1 14 (27.45%) VMware
2 13 (25.49%) Palo Alto
3 7 (13.73%) CheckPoint
4 6 (11.76%) Juniper
4 6 (11.76%) Meraki
5 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.88%) Aruba
6 3 (5.88%) F5
6 3 (5.88%) FireEye
6 3 (5.88%) SAP
6 3 (5.88%) Symantec
7 2 (3.92%) Google
8 1 (1.96%) Arista
8 1 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.96%) Solace