SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 33 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.35% - 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.56% - 11.54%
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 - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 - £375
% change year-on-year - - +30.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 14 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 13.59% 10.45% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 10
10th Percentile £428 £146 £240
25th Percentile £456 £161 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £171 £375
Median % change year-on-year +192.40% -54.40% +7.14%
75th Percentile £513 £418 £494
90th Percentile £539 £575 £559
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £364 £475
% change year-on-year +23.63% -23.37% +5.56%
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% -56.82%
75th Percentile - - £23.86
90th Percentile £26.13 - £24.05
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £21.59
% change year-on-year +2.39% +16.49% +2.81%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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
Derby - 1 £525 - 2
SD-WAN
East Midlands

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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