Wi-Fi Contracts in the Thames Valley

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 101 90
Rank change year-on-year -26 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 14 44 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 1.54% 2.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.61% 9.11% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 40
10th Percentile £223 £185 £190
25th Percentile £300 £384 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £410
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +16.53% +19.71%
75th Percentile £474 £573 £653
90th Percentile £500 £800 £696
South East median daily rate £405 £440 £415
% change year-on-year -7.95% +6.02% +21.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £62.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year - +275.76% -17.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 537 483 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.39% 16.95% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 289 363
10th Percentile £205 £280 £213
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - +21.88%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £563
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +4.05% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 20
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.50 £12.23
25th Percentile £22.58 £19.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +332.79% -44.55%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.00 £25.15
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -42.28%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Buckinghamshire +26 6 £400 -15.84% 5
Oxfordshire +9 4 £465 +6.29% 9
Berkshire -29 4 - - 9
Wi-Fi
South East

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) LAN
2 7 (50.00%) VPN
2 7 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (21.43%) Network Security
3 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
5 1 (7.14%) BGP
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
5 1 (7.14%) Internet
5 1 (7.14%) IPsec
5 1 (7.14%) Junos
5 1 (7.14%) MPLS
5 1 (7.14%) OSPF
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) French Language
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Field Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Project Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Information Security
2 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Server Management
3 1 (7.14%) Change Control
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
3 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (7.14%) SIEM
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Identification
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Meraki
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Apple
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Aruba
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Zscaler