SD-WAN Contracts in Scotland

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 142 171
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 -5
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 5 22 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.82% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 6.11% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile £403 £356 -
25th Percentile £406 £416 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £363
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +37.93% -19.44%
75th Percentile £506 £519 £394
90th Percentile £548 £538 £409
UK median daily rate £494 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -1.50% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

SD-WAN 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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Scotland

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Scotland

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Scotland

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +26 3 £413 -17.50% 1
Glasgow +12 1 £550 +37.50%
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) IPsec
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) BYOD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet