SD-WAN Contracts in Birmingham

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 58 63 86
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 -27
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 5 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.65% 1.46% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.82% 8.23% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £253 - £399
25th Percentile £331 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £503
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -35.32% +0.50%
75th Percentile £519 £380 £629
90th Percentile £538 £406 £649
West Midlands median daily rate £635 £338 £445
% change year-on-year +88.15% -24.16% -11.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 131 158 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.10% 17.77% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 117
10th Percentile £200 £300 £172
25th Percentile £269 £366 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £538
90th Percentile £600 £731 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £451 £413
% change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £13.85 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% +48.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in Birmingham

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Support
3 1 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCSA
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 9000
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Fujitsu
3 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto