SD-WAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 278 254 363
Rank change year-on-year -24 +109 -3
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 124 180 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.79% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 5.10% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 102 95
10th Percentile £274 £300 £324
25th Percentile £402 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -4.05% +10.35%
75th Percentile £650 £547 £540
90th Percentile £691 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £494 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 £83.75 £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £92.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.57% +255.77% -11.86%
75th Percentile £32.50 £101.88 £26.50
90th Percentile - £102.25 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £92.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -67.57% +239.45% -31.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East -10 36 £655 +31.00% 19
North of England +10 33 £433 +8.13% 15
Midlands +17 32 £630 +76.84% 18
West Midlands +22 31 £635 +88.15% 15
North West +3 26 £433 +8.13% 5
South West +16 25 £650 +40.54% 7
East of England +3 8 £575 +48.39% 9
Scotland +32 5 £425 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire +18 5 £350 +16.67% 10
North East +10 2 £531 -11.46%
Wales +18 1 - - 4
East Midlands +3 1 £375 - 3
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.87%) Azure
2 9 (7.26%) AWS
3 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.61%) GCP
3 2 (1.61%) GitHub
3 2 (1.61%) SaaS
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 66 (53.23%) WAN
2 49 (39.52%) Firewall
3 33 (26.61%) LAN
4 28 (22.58%) VPN
5 24 (19.35%) MPLS
6 23 (18.55%) Wireless
7 21 (16.94%) Cisco Nexus
8 18 (14.52%) Network Security
9 17 (13.71%) Cisco IOS
9 17 (13.71%) DMZ
10 15 (12.10%) DNS
11 13 (10.48%) BGP
11 13 (10.48%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (10.48%) IPsec
11 13 (10.48%) NX-OS
12 12 (9.68%) WLAN
13 9 (7.26%) Internet
14 8 (6.45%) OSPF
14 8 (6.45%) PBX
14 8 (6.45%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.71%) Finance
3 11 (8.87%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Advertising
7 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (43.55%) Network Engineer
2 40 (32.26%) Architect
3 31 (25.00%) Network Architect
4 13 (10.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) WAN Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Senior
7 8 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Field Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Network Field Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Wireless Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Network Specialist
10 4 (3.23%) Network Technical Architect
10 4 (3.23%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.03%) Web Services
2 2 (1.61%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 45 (36.29%) Data Centre
2 15 (12.10%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.03%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.42%) PKI
5 3 (2.42%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.81%) BYOD
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.90%) Linux
2 12 (9.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.97%) Network Virtualisation
2 20 (16.13%) Network Monitoring
3 13 (10.48%) High Availability
3 13 (10.48%) ITSM
3 13 (10.48%) Network Packet Capture
4 12 (9.68%) Computer Security
4 12 (9.68%) Incident Response
4 12 (9.68%) Network Architecture
4 12 (9.68%) Password Management
5 11 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (8.06%) Analytics
6 10 (8.06%) Proactive Monitoring
6 10 (8.06%) Project Delivery
6 10 (8.06%) Security Monitoring
7 9 (7.26%) Migration
7 9 (7.26%) Presales
8 8 (6.45%) Network Design
8 8 (6.45%) Network Management
8 8 (6.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.74%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (16.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.90%) CCNP
5 10 (8.06%) CCNA
6 9 (7.26%) CCIE
7 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.03%) CCIE Data Center
8 5 (4.03%) Degree
9 3 (2.42%) CCSA
9 3 (2.42%) CISSP
10 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) ISO 9000
2 3 (2.42%) SLA
3 2 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (15.32%) VMware NSX
3 13 (10.48%) vSphere
4 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.61%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (9.68%) CSIRT
2 5 (4.03%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.23%) Terraform
4 2 (1.61%) Cacti
4 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 90 (72.58%) Cisco
2 42 (33.87%) Palo Alto
3 34 (27.42%) F5
4 25 (20.16%) VMware
5 19 (15.32%) Fortinet
6 13 (10.48%) Juniper
7 12 (9.68%) CheckPoint
8 11 (8.87%) Zscaler
9 8 (6.45%) Meraki
10 6 (4.84%) Aruba
11 5 (4.03%) Infoblox
11 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
11 5 (4.03%) Symantec
12 4 (3.23%) Fujitsu
13 3 (2.42%) AlgoSec
13 3 (2.42%) McAfee
13 3 (2.42%) Nortel
13 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds
13 3 (2.42%) Splunk
14 2 (1.61%) Blue Coat