Wi-Fi Contracts in the North West

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > North West

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 97 138
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 -20
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 23 58 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.84% 1.83% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.61% 13.58% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 33
10th Percentile £206 £278 £209
25th Percentile £230 £338 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £300
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +55.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £444
90th Percentile £516 £550 £520
England median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

Wi-Fi 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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 348 427 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.78% 13.47% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 302 352
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £313 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £574 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 12
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £11.71
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £15.91
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -63.68%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £46.34
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £64.38
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cumbria -10 14 £515 +9.75% 2
Manchester -3 8 £235 -53.00% 9
Cheshire -4 1 £200 -48.39% 4
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (86.96%) Firewall
2 14 (60.87%) Cisco ISE
2 14 (60.87%) NetScaler
3 13 (56.52%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (56.52%) IPsec
4 12 (52.17%) BGP
4 12 (52.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (52.17%) EIGRP
4 12 (52.17%) HSRP
4 12 (52.17%) OSPF
4 12 (52.17%) SNMP
4 12 (52.17%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (26.09%) WAN
6 4 (17.39%) LAN
6 4 (17.39%) VPN
7 3 (13.04%) VLAN
7 3 (13.04%) VoIP
8 1 (4.35%) NAS
8 1 (4.35%) Network Security
8 1 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Network Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 8 (34.78%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) IT Support
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Switch Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Jinja
2 2 (8.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Network Management
2 13 (56.52%) Change Management
2 13 (56.52%) ITIL
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) ITSM
5 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.04%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (13.04%) Network Design
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Quality Management
6 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.35%) Migration
7 1 (4.35%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.35%) Security Management
7 1 (4.35%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (4.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) Perl
2 12 (52.17%) Tcl
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) CCNA
2 13 (56.52%) CCNP
2 13 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Firmware
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Autotask
2 3 (13.04%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.04%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Cisco
2 14 (60.87%) Palo Alto
3 13 (56.52%) Citrix
4 12 (52.17%) SolarWinds
5 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) VMware
7 3 (13.04%) Apple
7 3 (13.04%) Datto
7 3 (13.04%) Meraki
8 1 (4.35%) Brocade
8 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.35%) HP
8 1 (4.35%) Juniper
8 1 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.35%) Tufin
8 1 (4.35%) Veeam
8 1 (4.35%) Zscaler