WLAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 379 426
Rank change year-on-year +26 +47 -31
Contract jobs citing WLAN 43 68 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.29% 1.94% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 52
10th Percentile £220 £300 £170
25th Percentile £400 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £725 £486 £514
90th Percentile £775 £531 £574
UK median daily rate £488 £486 £452
% change year-on-year +0.31% +7.52% +19.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile - - £26.26
25th Percentile £23.92 £31.50 £28.41
Median hourly rate £24.87 £33.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% +6.45% -4.62%
75th Percentile £25.83 £34.50 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.87 £33.00 £29.71
% change year-on-year -24.64% +11.09% -8.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

WLAN 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +37 11 £750 +76.47% 9
West Midlands +23 10 £750 +76.47% 7
South West +16 9 £588 +56.67% 4
North of England +20 7 £650 +50.99% 5
East of England +12 6 £575 - 5
South East +3 6 £388 -13.89% 9
Yorkshire +23 5 £650 - 1
Scotland +40 3 £444 +4.41% 1
Wales +20 2 £220 +10.00% 1
North West +2 2 - - 3
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (86.05%) LAN
2 32 (74.42%) WAN
3 25 (58.14%) Firewall
4 14 (32.56%) VPN
5 13 (30.23%) SD-WAN
6 12 (27.91%) MPLS
7 11 (25.58%) Wireless
8 10 (23.26%) Internet
8 10 (23.26%) VoIP
9 9 (20.93%) PBX
10 8 (18.60%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (16.28%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (11.63%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (11.63%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (11.63%) DHCP
12 5 (11.63%) DNS
13 4 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (6.98%) NetScaler
14 3 (6.98%) Network Security
15 2 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.33%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Architect
2 9 (20.93%) Network Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Network Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (9.30%) IT Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Network Technician
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Network Technician
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Technician
7 3 (6.98%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Consultant
7 3 (6.98%) Network Consultant
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Domain Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Field Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Web Services
2 1 (2.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (44.19%) Data Centre
2 11 (25.58%) Operational Technology
3 5 (11.63%) CMDB
4 4 (9.30%) NHS
5 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.98%) Solar Power
6 1 (2.33%) CCTV
6 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.30%) Mac OS
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.65%) Linux
5 2 (4.65%) Unix
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.33%) Android
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Solaris
6 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) Network Architecture
1 10 (23.26%) Performance Management
1 10 (23.26%) Programme Management
2 9 (20.93%) Analytics
2 9 (20.93%) Architectural Design
2 9 (20.93%) Data Analytics
2 9 (20.93%) SOA
2 9 (20.93%) Storage Management
3 8 (18.60%) ITIL
4 7 (16.28%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
4 7 (16.28%) Migration
4 7 (16.28%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (13.95%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (13.95%) Resource Management
6 5 (11.63%) Edge Computing
6 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) TOGAF
6 5 (11.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.33%) Bash
1 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.33%) Python
1 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (20.93%) CCIE
2 9 (20.93%) CCIE Data Center
3 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) CCNA
4 4 (9.30%) CCNP
4 4 (9.30%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.65%) DBS Check
6 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.65%) SLA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (6.98%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 25 (58.14%) Cisco
2 14 (32.56%) Palo Alto
3 7 (16.28%) Fortinet
4 6 (13.95%) CheckPoint
5 5 (11.63%) Infoblox
5 5 (11.63%) Meraki
5 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.63%) SolarWinds
5 5 (11.63%) Symantec
5 5 (11.63%) Zscaler
6 4 (9.30%) Citrix
6 4 (9.30%) VMware
7 3 (6.98%) F5
7 3 (6.98%) WatchGuard
8 2 (4.65%) Aruba
8 2 (4.65%) Avaya
8 2 (4.65%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (4.65%) HP
8 2 (4.65%) SonicWALL
8 2 (4.65%) Veeam