SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 66 57
Rank change year-on-year -13 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.26% 0.13% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.29% 1.43% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £286
25th Percentile £463 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £375
75th Percentile £488 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £543
% change year-on-year - -7.83% +8.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 70 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.99% 9.03% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 56
10th Percentile £196 £171 £205
25th Percentile £263 £200 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £429 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -14.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £506 £492 £588
90th Percentile £656 £618 £655
England median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 13
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.75 £13.81 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +86.46% -3.22% -32.05%
75th Percentile £74.00 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -12.62% +2.14%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Derbyshire - 2 - - 3
Northamptonshire - 1 £475 -
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE Security
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco