Wi-Fi Contracts in the South East

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 105 119
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 67 126 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.21% 2.16% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.34% 12.77% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 64 69
10th Percentile £180 £185 £185
25th Percentile £238 £240 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +8.43% +38.33%
75th Percentile £427 £540 £663
90th Percentile £474 £681 £765
England median daily rate £360 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +200.00% -
75th Percentile - £63.00 £22.25
90th Percentile - £80.25 -
England median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -10.81% +15.63% -3.61%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,254 987 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.70% 16.93% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 595 776
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £659
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the South East

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the South East

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the South East

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the South East

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hampshire -19 33 £413 +71.52% 11
Middlesex +11 12 £450 -5.26%
Thames Valley -32 10 £300 -37.57% 19
Kent - 6 £271 - 3
Buckinghamshire +21 4 £300 -34.11% 6
Surrey +12 4 £405 - 4
Berkshire -40 4 £250 -50.98% 7
East Sussex +8 2 £170 -75.71%
Oxfordshire +4 2 £465 +6.29% 6
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (7.46%) Azure
3 3 (4.48%) AWS
3 3 (4.48%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.99%) Google Workspace
4 2 (2.99%) IaaS
4 2 (2.99%) PaaS
4 2 (2.99%) SaaS
5 1 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (52.24%) WAN
2 33 (49.25%) LAN
3 29 (43.28%) VPN
4 12 (17.91%) 802.11
5 8 (11.94%) Firewall
6 7 (10.45%) DNS
7 5 (7.46%) DHCP
7 5 (7.46%) VLAN
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (4.48%) Junos
8 3 (4.48%) Network Security
8 3 (4.48%) WebEx
9 2 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.99%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (2.99%) Internet
9 2 (2.99%) NX-OS
9 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.99%) Wireshark
General
1 32 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Retail
3 3 (4.48%) Finance
4 2 (2.99%) Automotive
4 2 (2.99%) French Language
4 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.99%) Portuguese Language
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Architect
1 19 (28.36%) Network Architect
2 11 (16.42%) C++ Software Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) IT Support
4 6 (8.96%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (7.46%) Desktop Support
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 3 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Deskside Support
7 3 (4.48%) Field Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Installations Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Juniper Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.91%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.48%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Driving Licence
2 6 (8.96%) Digital Signage
3 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.37%) Windows
2 10 (14.93%) Windows 10
3 8 (11.94%) Apple iOS
4 7 (10.45%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.99%) Android
5 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Project Management
2 19 (28.36%) Project Delivery
3 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
5 9 (13.43%) Customer Service
6 6 (8.96%) CRM
6 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (8.96%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (4.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.48%) Requirements Gathering
9 2 (2.99%) Analytics
9 2 (2.99%) Configuration Management
9 2 (2.99%) Information Security
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (2.99%) Load Balancing
9 2 (2.99%) Logistics
9 2 (2.99%) Network Design
9 2 (2.99%) Risk Management
9 2 (2.99%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) C
1 12 (17.91%) C++
1 12 (17.91%) Perl
1 12 (17.91%) Tcl
2 6 (8.96%) SQL
3 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.46%) CCNA
3 5 (7.46%) CCNP
4 3 (4.48%) JNCIA
4 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) PMO
2 2 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) SCCM
2 3 (4.48%) AppManager
3 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 38 (56.72%) Cisco
2 21 (31.34%) Juniper
3 16 (23.88%) Microsoft
4 13 (19.40%) VMware
5 7 (10.45%) Aruba
5 7 (10.45%) HP
5 7 (10.45%) Meraki
6 4 (5.97%) Apple
7 3 (4.48%) Ivanti
7 3 (4.48%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.99%) Google
8 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.49%) F5
9 1 (1.49%) QinetiQ