Software-Defined Networking Contracts

Software-Defined Networking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Software-Defined Networking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software-Defined Networking 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 562 655 783
Rank change year-on-year +93 +128 -108
Contract jobs citing Software-Defined Networking 22 42 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.076% 0.075%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.59% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 48
10th Percentile £388 £450 £275
25th Percentile £419 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £750 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £51.63 £42.04
25th Percentile - £54.52 £43.50
Median hourly rate - £57.33 £49.52
Median % change year-on-year - +15.77% -12.35%
75th Percentile - £59.18 £50.77
90th Percentile - £60.25 £53.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.33 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +15.77% -12.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Software-Defined Networking 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

Software-Defined Networking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software-Defined Networking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking.

Daily rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software-Defined Networking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Networking.

Hourly rate trend for Software-Defined Networking in the UK

Software-Defined Networking
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Networking within the UK 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
England +72 21 £535 -15.42% 16
UK excluding London +18 13 £600 +4.35% 14
London +81 8 £488 -25.00% 8
South East +17 7 £675 -10.00% 5
Work from Home +107 5 £591 +21.28% 4
North of England +19 5 £600 +26.32% 2
North West +17 5 £600 +26.32% 1
South West -3 3 £438 -28.86%

Software-Defined Networking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) IaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Wireless
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (18.18%) DHCP
3 4 (18.18%) DNS
4 3 (13.64%) Network Security
4 3 (13.64%) WAN
5 2 (9.09%) BGP
5 2 (9.09%) BIG-IP
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (9.09%) OSPF
5 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (9.09%) VLAN
5 2 (9.09%) VPN
6 1 (4.55%) Junos
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Legal
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.09%) Electronics
5 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) VMware Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Cisco Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Architect
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Network Configuration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) MPEG
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) VMS
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (22.73%) Task Automation
5 4 (18.18%) ITIL
5 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.64%) Low Latency
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Management
6 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
6 3 (13.64%) Test Planning
7 2 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) C
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) Go
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) CCNP
3 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (31.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (22.73%) CCNA
4 5 (22.73%) Degree
4 5 (22.73%) VCAP
5 4 (18.18%) CCIE
6 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
7 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
8 1 (4.55%) HP ASE
8 1 (4.55%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) VMware NSX
2 8 (36.36%) vSphere
3 2 (9.09%) Docker
3 2 (9.09%) Firmware
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
2 6 (27.27%) vRealize
2 6 (27.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) SCOM
4 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Cisco
1 9 (40.91%) VMware
2 2 (9.09%) AlgoSec
2 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 2 (9.09%) F5
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Infoblox
2 2 (9.09%) Meraki
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.55%) Juniper
3 1 (4.55%) Turbonomic