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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 303 409
Rank change year-on-year +37 +106 +15
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 83 158 227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.41% 5.61% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 92 163
10th Percentile £300 £350 £358
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +2.46%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £581
90th Percentile £659 £717 £696
UK median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -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% +43.42%
75th Percentile £23.75 £102.50 £29.31
90th Percentile - - £29.88
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
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 2,817 4,458
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.48% 11.62% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,879 3,052
10th Percentile £300 £344 £313
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 95 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.90 £18.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £27.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.32 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.73% +16.46% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

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 2 June 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 (2.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.07%) Azure
2 14 (16.87%) AWS
3 7 (8.43%) GCP
4 3 (3.61%) GitHub
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 57 (68.67%) WAN
2 40 (48.19%) LAN
3 31 (37.35%) Firewall
4 19 (22.89%) BGP
4 19 (22.89%) OSPF
5 18 (21.69%) Network Security
6 13 (15.66%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (15.66%) Wireless
7 12 (14.46%) MPLS
8 11 (13.25%) WLAN
9 10 (12.05%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (12.05%) NX-OS
9 10 (12.05%) VPN
10 8 (9.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (8.43%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (8.43%) DNS
11 7 (8.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (6.02%) DHCP
12 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
12 5 (6.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (18.07%) Telecoms
2 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Finance
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (37.35%) Network Engineer
2 21 (25.30%) Architect
3 15 (18.07%) Network Architect
4 13 (15.66%) Senior
5 9 (10.84%) Consultant
6 5 (6.02%) Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Network Consultant
7 4 (4.82%) Network Technical Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Telecoms Manager
7 4 (4.82%) WAN Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) IT Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Lead
8 3 (3.61%) Telecoms Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.41%) LDAP
2 1 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.61%) Clustering
3 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) BYOD
5 1 (1.20%) FMCG
5 1 (1.20%) IoT
5 1 (1.20%) IVR
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) PKI
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (13.25%) Migration
2 10 (12.05%) Load Balancing
3 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (8.43%) Change Management
5 6 (7.23%) Network Architecture
5 6 (7.23%) Presales
5 6 (7.23%) Roadmaps
6 5 (6.02%) Agile
6 5 (6.02%) Budget Management
6 5 (6.02%) Inventory Management
6 5 (6.02%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (6.02%) Project Delivery
6 5 (6.02%) Service Delivery
7 4 (4.82%) High Availability
7 4 (4.82%) Network Design
7 4 (4.82%) SIEM
8 3 (3.61%) Computer Science
8 3 (3.61%) Computer Security
8 3 (3.61%) Data Protection
8 3 (3.61%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.02%) Python
2 2 (2.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (33.73%) CCNP
3 16 (19.28%) CCIE
4 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
5 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
6 7 (8.43%) CCNA
7 4 (4.82%) CCDP
7 4 (4.82%) Degree
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.61%) CCSA
8 3 (3.61%) CISSP
8 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.41%) PMP
9 2 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.20%) BC Cleared
10 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.20%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.20%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.23%) VMware NSX
3 5 (6.02%) Firmware
4 4 (4.82%) vSphere
5 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 5 (6.02%) Ansible
4 4 (4.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.61%) CSIRT
5 3 (3.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (71.08%) Cisco
2 21 (25.30%) Palo Alto
3 19 (22.89%) F5
4 14 (16.87%) Fortinet
5 11 (13.25%) Meraki
5 11 (13.25%) VMware
6 8 (9.64%) BT
6 8 (9.64%) Zscaler
7 7 (8.43%) Aruba
7 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
8 6 (7.23%) CheckPoint
8 6 (7.23%) Splunk
9 5 (6.02%) Infoblox
10 4 (4.82%) Arista
10 4 (4.82%) Juniper
10 4 (4.82%) NetCracker
10 4 (4.82%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.61%) AlgoSec
11 3 (3.61%) Google
11 3 (3.61%) webMethods