SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Derby

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.51% - 2.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% - 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £375
75th Percentile £538 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £525 - £375

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 10 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 18.37% 9.26% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 7
10th Percentile £428 £162 £318
25th Percentile £456 £168 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £171 £375
Median % change year-on-year +192.40% -54.40% -23.08%
75th Percentile £513 £292 £525
90th Percentile £539 £507 £585
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £171 £375
% change year-on-year +192.40% -54.40% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 2
10th Percentile £21.33 - £20.68
25th Percentile £21.33 - £21.27
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £22.89
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +9.90% -
75th Percentile - - £23.86
90th Percentile £26.13 - £24.05
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £22.89
% change year-on-year +2.39% +9.90% -56.82%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Derby

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Support
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki