SD-WAN Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 336 390 472
Rank change year-on-year +54 +82 +19
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 219 262 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.56% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.54% 4.42% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 143 231
10th Percentile £298 £313 £375
25th Percentile £412 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £629 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £494 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £24.10 - £25.63
25th Percentile £25.38 £83.75 £25.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £92.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.57% +239.45% -31.88%
75th Percentile £33.13 £101.88 £29.31
90th Percentile £33.50 £102.25 £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
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in England

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +69 87 £525 -11.58% 28
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
Yorkshire +18 5 £350 +16.67% 10
North East +10 2 £531 -11.46%
East Midlands +3 1 £375 - 3
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.98%) Azure
2 26 (11.87%) AWS
3 12 (5.48%) GCP
4 4 (1.83%) GitHub
5 3 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.37%) Nutanix
6 2 (0.91%) SaaS
7 1 (0.46%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.46%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 146 (66.67%) WAN
2 97 (44.29%) Firewall
3 61 (27.85%) LAN
4 44 (20.09%) VPN
5 43 (19.63%) MPLS
6 42 (19.18%) Wireless
7 37 (16.89%) BGP
8 34 (15.53%) Network Security
9 33 (15.07%) OSPF
10 31 (14.16%) Cisco Nexus
10 31 (14.16%) DNS
11 21 (9.59%) NX-OS
12 20 (9.13%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (8.68%) Cisco IOS
13 19 (8.68%) IPsec
14 18 (8.22%) DMZ
14 18 (8.22%) WLAN
15 16 (7.31%) DHCP
16 14 (6.39%) Cisco ISE
17 12 (5.48%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (2.28%) JIRA
1 5 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.91%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
General
1 41 (18.72%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.35%) Finance
3 20 (9.13%) Telecoms
4 17 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.20%) Banking
7 7 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (42.47%) Network Engineer
2 53 (24.20%) Architect
3 41 (18.72%) Network Architect
4 19 (8.68%) WAN Engineer
5 18 (8.22%) Senior
6 16 (7.31%) Consultant
7 13 (5.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Security Consultant
8 11 (5.02%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support
10 8 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (3.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (3.20%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 6 (2.74%) Cloud Consultant
12 6 (2.74%) Cloud Security Consultant
12 6 (2.74%) IT Engineer
12 6 (2.74%) Network Field Engineer
12 6 (2.74%) Wireless Engineer
12 6 (2.74%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.28%) Web Services
2 4 (1.83%) JSON
3 2 (0.91%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.91%) Jinja
3 2 (0.91%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.91%) RESTful
3 2 (0.91%) SAML
3 2 (0.91%) XML
3 2 (0.91%) YANG
4 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (29.22%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.31%) PKI
4 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.28%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.28%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.37%) Clustering
5 3 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.91%) NHS
6 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.46%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.76%) Linux
2 16 (7.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (15.07%) Network Virtualisation
2 25 (11.42%) Network Monitoring
3 23 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (10.05%) Network Architecture
5 21 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (9.59%) SIEM
6 20 (9.13%) Migration
7 17 (7.76%) ITSM
8 16 (7.31%) Cloud Security
8 16 (7.31%) Network Packet Capture
9 15 (6.85%) Computer Security
9 15 (6.85%) High Availability
9 15 (6.85%) Incident Response
9 15 (6.85%) Knowledge Transfer
9 15 (6.85%) Network Design
9 15 (6.85%) Password Management
10 14 (6.39%) Presales
11 13 (5.94%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (5.94%) ITIL
12 12 (5.48%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.02%) Python
2 5 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (1.37%) SQL
4 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (25.57%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (22.83%) Security Cleared
3 45 (20.55%) CCNP
4 31 (14.16%) SC Cleared
5 25 (11.42%) CCIE
6 22 (10.05%) CCNA
7 17 (7.76%) Degree
8 8 (3.65%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.28%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.28%) CCIE Data Center
10 5 (2.28%) CCSA
10 5 (2.28%) CISSP
11 4 (1.83%) CCDP
12 3 (1.37%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.37%) PMP
13 2 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.46%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.46%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.57%) ISO 9000
2 10 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 8 (3.65%) SLA
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) NCSC
4 2 (0.91%) QA
5 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (14.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (11.87%) VMware NSX
3 16 (7.31%) vSphere
4 8 (3.65%) Firmware
5 6 (2.74%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.28%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (6.85%) CSIRT
2 12 (5.48%) Terraform
3 9 (4.11%) FortiGate
4 7 (3.20%) Ansible
5 3 (1.37%) Kibana
5 3 (1.37%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.91%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.46%) Cacti
7 1 (0.46%) CASB
7 1 (0.46%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 142 (64.84%) Cisco
2 68 (31.05%) Palo Alto
3 47 (21.46%) F5
4 39 (17.81%) VMware
5 33 (15.07%) Fortinet
6 24 (10.96%) Juniper
7 23 (10.50%) CheckPoint
7 23 (10.50%) Microsoft
8 20 (9.13%) Meraki
8 20 (9.13%) Zscaler
9 16 (7.31%) Aruba
10 13 (5.94%) Infoblox
11 9 (4.11%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.74%) Splunk
13 5 (2.28%) AlgoSec
13 5 (2.28%) Symantec
14 4 (1.83%) Arista
14 4 (1.83%) Fujitsu
14 4 (1.83%) HP
15 3 (1.37%) Nokia