SD-WAN Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 109 126 181
Rank change year-on-year +17 +55 -32
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 32 32 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 0.99% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 6.40% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 13
10th Percentile £253 £283 £311
25th Percentile £413 £309 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £356 £400
Median % change year-on-year +76.84% -10.94% -17.95%
75th Percentile £675 £396 £488
90th Percentile £775 £425 £598
England median daily rate £511 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% - +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 480 500 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.28% 15.53% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 323 408
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £579 £597 £526
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 25
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £12.88 £19.56 £15.63
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.34 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +27.19% +17.07%
75th Percentile £25.55 £28.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £28.75 £35.13 £23.40
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the Midlands

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +22 31 £635 +88.15% 15
East Midlands +3 1 £375 - 3
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) WAN
2 12 (37.50%) MPLS
3 11 (34.38%) NX-OS
4 10 (31.25%) DNS
5 9 (28.13%) Firewall
5 9 (28.13%) LAN
5 9 (28.13%) VPN
6 6 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (18.75%) DHCP
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (15.63%) Internet
7 5 (15.63%) PBX
7 5 (15.63%) VoIP
7 5 (15.63%) WLAN
8 2 (6.25%) BGP
8 2 (6.25%) IPsec
8 2 (6.25%) Junos
8 2 (6.25%) Network Security
8 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Architect
2 11 (34.38%) Network Architect
3 7 (21.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (15.63%) WAN Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Administrator
8 1 (3.13%) Field Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Field Support Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Network Administrator
8 1 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Network Support
8 1 (3.13%) Network Support Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Data Centre
2 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Network Virtualisation
2 11 (34.38%) Network Packet Capture
3 10 (31.25%) Computer Security
3 10 (31.25%) Incident Response
3 10 (31.25%) Password Management
4 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
5 6 (18.75%) Network Architecture
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (15.63%) Data Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) ITIL
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (15.63%) Proactive Monitoring
6 5 (15.63%) Programme Management
6 5 (15.63%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (15.63%) SOA
6 5 (15.63%) Storage Management
6 5 (15.63%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (28.13%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (18.75%) CCIE
5 5 (15.63%) CCIE Data Center
6 4 (12.50%) CCNP
7 3 (9.38%) CCNA
8 1 (3.13%) CCSA
8 1 (3.13%) CISSP
8 1 (3.13%) Degree
8 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
8 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO 9000
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (34.38%) VMware NSX
2 11 (34.38%) vSphere
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) CheckPoint
3 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 5 (15.63%) Infoblox
4 5 (15.63%) Symantec
4 5 (15.63%) Zscaler
5 3 (9.38%) Fujitsu
5 3 (9.38%) Juniper
6 1 (3.13%) Aerohive Networks
6 1 (3.13%) AlgoSec
6 1 (3.13%) Avaya
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.13%) McAfee
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Mitel
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp
6 1 (3.13%) Nortel
6 1 (3.13%) Veeam