SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 12 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.73% - 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.05% - 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £441
25th Percentile - - £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £531
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.46%
75th Percentile - - £602
90th Percentile - - £627
England median daily rate £505 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.44% +2.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 31 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 9.09% 10.16% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 19
10th Percentile £196 £153 £256
25th Percentile £394 £209 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £333 £450
Median % change year-on-year +46.62% -26.11% +60.71%
75th Percentile £638 £505 £594
90th Percentile £650 £629 £645
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile £21.33 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.74 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +171.43%
75th Percentile £32.18 - £48.75
90th Percentile £49.13 - -
England median hourly rate £28.96 £39.66 £45.44
% change year-on-year -26.98% -12.72% +139.60%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in the North East

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Tyne and Wear - 12 £650 - 1
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) OCI
2 6 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) BGP
1 12 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 12 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
1 12 (100.00%) OSPF
1 12 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 11 (91.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (91.67%) WAN
3 6 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (50.00%) WLAN
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) NGFW
4 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) Senior
1 10 (83.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (91.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Load Balancing
3 9 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) High Availability
4 6 (50.00%) Network Design
5 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Network Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 1 (8.33%) Backlog Management
8 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
8 1 (8.33%) Operational Stability
8 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) F5
1 12 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 11 (91.67%) Arista
2 11 (91.67%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint