SD-WAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 276 314 413
Rank change year-on-year +38 +99 -3
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 71 155 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.63% 5.42% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 93 152
10th Percentile £300 £350 £356
25th Percentile £406 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £485 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -2.51% +0.61%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £578
90th Percentile £658 £700 £698
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.63
25th Percentile £23.25 £87.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £23.50 £95.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -75.26% +248.62% -33.13%
75th Percentile £23.75 £102.50 £29.31
90th Percentile - - £29.88
UK 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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,858 4,298
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 11.60% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,891 2,912
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 105
10th Percentile £12.75 £22.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +18.36% +14.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

SD-WAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SD-WAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SD-WAN.

SD-WAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SD-WAN over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

SD-WAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SD-WAN.

SD-WAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) Azure
2 10 (14.08%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) GCP
4 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 53 (74.65%) WAN
2 36 (50.70%) LAN
3 25 (35.21%) Firewall
4 18 (25.35%) BGP
4 18 (25.35%) OSPF
5 14 (19.72%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (18.31%) Network Security
7 12 (16.90%) Wireless
8 11 (15.49%) MPLS
9 10 (14.08%) VPN
10 8 (11.27%) WLAN
11 7 (9.86%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (9.86%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (9.86%) DNS
11 7 (9.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (8.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 6 (8.45%) NX-OS
13 5 (7.04%) EIGRP
13 5 (7.04%) IPsec
13 5 (7.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (21.13%) Telecoms
2 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Network Engineer
2 17 (23.94%) Architect
3 12 (16.90%) Network Architect
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Network Technical Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Senior Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Telecoms Manager
6 4 (5.63%) WAN Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Lead
7 3 (4.23%) Presales Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Telecoms Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) JSON
1 2 (2.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.23%) Clustering
3 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) BYOD
4 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.41%) FMCG
4 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) IVR
4 1 (1.41%) NHS
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (14.08%) Load Balancing
2 8 (11.27%) Migration
2 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (8.45%) Change Management
4 5 (7.04%) Agile
4 5 (7.04%) Budget Management
4 5 (7.04%) Inventory Management
4 5 (7.04%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (7.04%) Presales
4 5 (7.04%) Roadmaps
5 4 (5.63%) High Availability
5 4 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (4.23%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (4.23%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (4.23%) Investment Management
6 3 (4.23%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (4.23%) Network Architecture
6 3 (4.23%) Network Design
6 3 (4.23%) Re-Platforming
6 3 (4.23%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.04%) Python
2 2 (2.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (28.17%) CCNP
3 10 (14.08%) CCIE
4 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) CCDP
5 4 (5.63%) CCNA
6 3 (4.23%) Degree
6 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.82%) PMP
7 2 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.41%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (1.41%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) SLA
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Firmware
1 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) FortiGate
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (69.01%) Cisco
2 18 (25.35%) Palo Alto
3 13 (18.31%) F5
4 11 (15.49%) Fortinet
5 9 (12.68%) Meraki
5 9 (12.68%) VMware
6 8 (11.27%) BT
7 7 (9.86%) Aruba
7 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
8 6 (8.45%) Splunk
8 6 (8.45%) Zscaler
9 5 (7.04%) Infoblox
9 5 (7.04%) SolarWinds
10 4 (5.63%) Arista
10 4 (5.63%) NetCracker
11 3 (4.23%) Google
11 3 (4.23%) Juniper
11 3 (4.23%) webMethods
12 2 (2.82%) Genesys
12 2 (2.82%) Red Hat