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 remote or hybrid contract work 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 252 304 404
Rank change year-on-year +52 +100 +22
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 90 155 227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.65% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% 5.53% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 92 165
10th Percentile £353 £350 £359
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +2.67%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £741 £692
UK median daily rate £494 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -1.50% +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 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
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 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +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

SD-WAN
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

SD-WAN
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 12 June 2024.

SD-WAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SD-WAN
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

SD-WAN
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 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.67%) Azure
2 13 (14.44%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) GCP
4 3 (3.33%) GitHub
5 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 61 (67.78%) WAN
2 42 (46.67%) LAN
3 33 (36.67%) Firewall
4 21 (23.33%) Network Security
5 20 (22.22%) BGP
5 20 (22.22%) OSPF
6 14 (15.56%) Wireless
7 12 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (13.33%) MPLS
7 12 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (12.22%) NX-OS
8 11 (12.22%) VPN
8 11 (12.22%) WLAN
9 9 (10.00%) DNS
10 8 (8.89%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (8.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (7.78%) DHCP
11 7 (7.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 6 (6.67%) IPsec
12 6 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 19 (21.11%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Network Architect
4 11 (12.22%) Senior
5 10 (11.11%) Consultant
6 7 (7.78%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Network Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Network Technical Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Presales Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Programme Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Telecoms Manager
8 4 (4.44%) WAN Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.22%) SAML
2 1 (1.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.78%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.33%) Clustering
3 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) BYOD
5 1 (1.11%) FMCG
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.33%) Migration
2 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 8 (8.89%) Change Management
5 7 (7.78%) Presales
5 7 (7.78%) Roadmaps
6 6 (6.67%) Agile
6 6 (6.67%) High Availability
6 6 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (6.67%) SIEM
7 5 (5.56%) Budget Management
7 5 (5.56%) Inventory Management
7 5 (5.56%) Network Architecture
7 5 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 5 (5.56%) Service Delivery
8 4 (4.44%) CI/CD
8 4 (4.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.44%) Network Design
8 4 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (3.33%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.67%) Python
2 2 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (35.56%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (34.44%) CCNP
3 18 (20.00%) CCIE
4 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 9 (10.00%) CCNA
7 5 (5.56%) CCSA
7 5 (5.56%) CISSP
8 4 (4.44%) CCDP
8 4 (4.44%) Degree
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
10 2 (2.22%) PMP
10 2 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.11%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 1 (1.11%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) SLA
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 5 (5.56%) Firmware
4 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.44%) vSphere
5 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.11%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 6 (6.67%) Ansible
2 6 (6.67%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) CSIRT
3 3 (3.33%) Kibana
4 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (68.89%) Cisco
2 24 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 21 (23.33%) F5
4 17 (18.89%) Fortinet
5 13 (14.44%) VMware
6 12 (13.33%) Meraki
7 8 (8.89%) BT
7 8 (8.89%) CheckPoint
7 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.89%) Zscaler
8 7 (7.78%) Aruba
9 6 (6.67%) Infoblox
9 6 (6.67%) Splunk
10 5 (5.56%) AlgoSec
11 4 (4.44%) Arista
11 4 (4.44%) Juniper
11 4 (4.44%) NetCracker
12 3 (3.33%) Nortel
12 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
12 3 (3.33%) webMethods