SD-WAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SD-WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SD-WAN over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 271 372
Rank change year-on-year -15 +101 -15
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 109 185 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.80% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.34% 5.33% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 116 88
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £378 £350 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £440 £489
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -9.97% +11.71%
75th Percentile £644 £550 £543
90th Percentile £735 £613 £601
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £44.03 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £69.56 £25.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £92.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +255.77% -35.00%
75th Percentile £91.25 £101.56 £26.50
90th Percentile £93.50 £102.13 -
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £92.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -66.22% +239.45% -46.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SD-WAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,267 3,473 4,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.10% 15.10% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,187 2,638
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 312 242
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.82
Median hourly rate £45.88 £17.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.48% -17.44% -8.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £73.49 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SD-WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SD-WAN in the UK excluding London

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South East -20 31 £438 -12.50% 10
North of England +15 29 £433 +15.33% 15
West Midlands +22 24 £538 +59.26% 13
Midlands +18 24 £538 +53.46% 18
North West +7 24 £433 +11.61% 6
South West +11 13 £650 +40.54% 7
East of England +6 9 £463 +42.31% 6
Yorkshire +15 4 £200 -33.33% 8
Scotland +19 3 £500 +5.26% 10
North East +11 1 £613 +2.08% 1
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.34%) Azure
2 5 (4.59%) AWS
3 2 (1.83%) GitHub
3 2 (1.83%) SaaS
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (65.14%) WAN
2 41 (37.61%) Firewall
3 36 (33.03%) LAN
4 24 (22.02%) VPN
5 21 (19.27%) MPLS
6 20 (18.35%) Wireless
7 17 (15.60%) Cisco Nexus
7 17 (15.60%) DMZ
8 16 (14.68%) Cisco IOS
9 15 (13.76%) DNS
10 12 (11.01%) WLAN
11 11 (10.09%) BGP
11 11 (10.09%) VoIP
12 10 (9.17%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (9.17%) Internet
13 9 (8.26%) Network Security
14 8 (7.34%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (7.34%) PBX
14 8 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (6.42%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 3 (2.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (15.60%) Finance
2 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.93%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Legal
6 2 (1.83%) Military
7 1 (0.92%) Advertising
7 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Marketing
7 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (42.20%) Network Engineer
2 31 (28.44%) Architect
3 21 (19.27%) Network Architect
4 13 (11.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) WAN Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (7.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Senior
7 7 (6.42%) Field Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Network Field Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Wireless Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Network Technical Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Administrator
10 3 (2.75%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.36%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.59%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.75%) PKI
4 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) BYOD
6 1 (0.92%) CMDB
6 1 (0.92%) IoT
6 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.84%) Linux
2 10 (9.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (14.68%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (12.84%) ITSM
3 13 (11.93%) Presales
4 12 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (11.01%) Network Architecture
4 12 (11.01%) Network Virtualisation
5 11 (10.09%) Network Management
6 10 (9.17%) Proactive Monitoring
6 10 (9.17%) Security Monitoring
7 9 (8.26%) Analytics
7 9 (8.26%) Requirements Management
7 9 (8.26%) SIEM
8 8 (7.34%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (7.34%) Project Delivery
9 7 (6.42%) Load Balancing
9 7 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (6.42%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (5.50%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (5.50%) High Availability
10 6 (5.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (10.09%) CCNP
3 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.34%) CCNA
5 6 (5.50%) CCIE
5 6 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.59%) CCIE Data Center
7 4 (3.67%) Degree
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) ISO 9000
2 4 (3.67%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.59%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Terraform
2 3 (2.75%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.92%) Observium
Vendors
1 74 (67.89%) Cisco
2 36 (33.03%) Palo Alto
3 22 (20.18%) F5
4 15 (13.76%) Juniper
5 13 (11.93%) Fortinet
6 10 (9.17%) VMware
6 10 (9.17%) Zscaler
7 9 (8.26%) CheckPoint
8 8 (7.34%) Meraki
9 5 (4.59%) Aruba
9 5 (4.59%) Infoblox
9 5 (4.59%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.59%) Symantec
10 4 (3.67%) Fujitsu
10 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
11 3 (2.75%) Splunk
12 2 (1.83%) Ciena
12 2 (1.83%) Huawei
12 2 (1.83%) McAfee
12 2 (1.83%) Nortel