SD-WAN Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 80 102 165
Rank change year-on-year +22 +63 -35
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 31 27 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.52% 1.22% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.38% 7.20% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 7
10th Percentile £251 £278 £387
25th Percentile £472 £305 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £338 £445
Median % change year-on-year +88.15% -24.16% -11.00%
75th Percentile £675 £387 £553
90th Percentile £775 £423 £636
England median daily rate £511 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% - +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 375 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 16.95% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £253 £163
25th Percentile £300 £323 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £451 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £545
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 11
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.63 £13.63
Median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the West Midlands

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the West Midlands

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the West Midlands

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Warwickshire - 20 £671 - 4
Solihull -13 6 £275 - 3
Birmingham +5 5 £475 +46.15% 3
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) WAN
2 11 (35.48%) MPLS
2 11 (35.48%) NX-OS
3 9 (29.03%) DNS
3 9 (29.03%) VPN
4 8 (25.81%) Firewall
4 8 (25.81%) LAN
5 6 (19.35%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (16.13%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (16.13%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (16.13%) DHCP
6 5 (16.13%) Internet
6 5 (16.13%) PBX
6 5 (16.13%) VoIP
6 5 (16.13%) WLAN
7 2 (6.45%) BGP
7 2 (6.45%) IPsec
7 2 (6.45%) Junos
8 1 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Architect
2 11 (35.48%) Network Architect
3 7 (22.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Support Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (16.13%) WAN Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Administrator
6 3 (9.68%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Network Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) Network Field Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Network Support
7 1 (3.23%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Data Centre
2 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Network Virtualisation
2 11 (35.48%) Network Packet Capture
3 10 (32.26%) Computer Security
3 10 (32.26%) Incident Response
3 10 (32.26%) Password Management
4 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
5 6 (19.35%) Network Architecture
6 5 (16.13%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) Architectural Design
6 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (16.13%) Data Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) ITIL
6 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.13%) Performance Management
6 5 (16.13%) Programme Management
6 5 (16.13%) Resource Management
6 5 (16.13%) SOA
6 5 (16.13%) Storage Management
6 5 (16.13%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (19.35%) CCIE
5 5 (16.13%) CCIE Data Center
6 3 (9.68%) CCNP
7 2 (6.45%) CCNA
8 1 (3.23%) CCSA
8 1 (3.23%) CISSP
8 1 (3.23%) Degree
8 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) ISO 9000
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (35.48%) VMware NSX
2 11 (35.48%) vSphere
3 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Cisco
2 13 (41.94%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) CheckPoint
3 6 (19.35%) Palo Alto
4 5 (16.13%) Infoblox
4 5 (16.13%) Symantec
4 5 (16.13%) Zscaler
5 3 (9.68%) Fujitsu
5 3 (9.68%) Juniper
6 1 (3.23%) AlgoSec
6 1 (3.23%) F5
6 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.23%) McAfee