Software-Defined Networking Contracts

Software-Defined Networking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Software-Defined Networking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 642 773
Rank change year-on-year +90 +131 -103
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 23 40 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.071% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.42% 0.56% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 47
10th Percentile £388 £450 £275
25th Percentile £419 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £675
90th Percentile £718 £750 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £51.63 £42.04
25th Percentile - £54.52 £43.50
Median hourly rate - £57.33 £49.52
Median % change year-on-year - +15.77% -12.35%
75th Percentile - £59.18 £50.77
90th Percentile - £60.25 £53.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.33 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +15.77% -12.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Software-Defined Networking 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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

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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 10 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 1 June 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 +75 22 £535 -13.01% 12
UK excluding London +31 15 £600 +14.29% 15
London +92 7 £450 -28.46% 3
South East +13 6 £675 -10.00% 6
Work from Home +104 5 £591 +21.28% 6
North of England +25 5 £600 +26.32% 2
North West +23 5 £600 +26.32% 2
South West +3 5 £569 -7.52% 1
Midlands +19 1 - - 1
West Midlands +10 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) IaaS
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Wireless
2 6 (26.09%) Firewall
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (17.39%) DHCP
3 4 (17.39%) DNS
3 4 (17.39%) WAN
4 3 (13.04%) BGP
4 3 (13.04%) Network Security
4 3 (13.04%) OSPF
4 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
4 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.70%) BIG-IP
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (8.70%) VLAN
5 2 (8.70%) VPN
6 1 (4.35%) Junos
6 1 (4.35%) LAN
6 1 (4.35%) Skype
6 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Legal
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.35%) Electronics
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Architect
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Configuration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) MPEG
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
3 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
5 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
6 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Management
6 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Test Planning
7 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.70%) High Availability
7 2 (8.70%) Low Latency
7 2 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) C
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Go
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Ruby
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) CCNP
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (26.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (21.74%) CCNA
6 4 (17.39%) CCIE
6 4 (17.39%) Degree
6 4 (17.39%) VCAP
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
8 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (4.35%) HP ASE
9 1 (4.35%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (39.13%) VMware NSX
3 7 (30.43%) vSphere
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.70%) Firmware
4 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.35%) Docker
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) vRealize
2 5 (21.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Cisco
1 10 (43.48%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) AlgoSec
3 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.70%) F5
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Infoblox
3 2 (8.70%) Juniper
3 2 (8.70%) Meraki
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Turbonomic