Wireless Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireless
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing Wireless 21 38 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.09% 1.59% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.33% 10.73% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 39
10th Percentile £200 £250 £155
25th Percentile £263 £285 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £200
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +112.50% -37.16%
75th Percentile £622 £450 £379
90th Percentile £1,000 £475 £453
England median daily rate £413 £425 £375
% change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Wireless 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 394 354 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.44% 14.80% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 219 272
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £504
90th Percentile £688 £700 £617
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 19
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.94
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham +5 5 £1,000 +158.06% 7
Solihull -14 4 £425 -5.61%
Warwickshire +5 3 £500 +17.65% 1
Worcestershire +7 2 £200 -65.22% 2
Staffordshire +6 1 £200 +5.26% 1
Walsall +3 1 £225 -
Herefordshire -6 1 £538 +28.10% 1
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (9.52%) IIS
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
1 2 (9.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
1 5 (23.81%) LAN
2 4 (19.05%) Internet
2 4 (19.05%) WAN
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (14.29%) DHCP
3 3 (14.29%) Ethereal
3 3 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 3 (14.29%) Wireshark
4 2 (9.52%) 5G
4 2 (9.52%) Bluetooth
4 2 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (9.52%) Firewall
4 2 (9.52%) iSCSI
4 2 (9.52%) NAS
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security
4 2 (9.52%) SAN
5 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.76%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (9.52%) Military
6 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Support
4 3 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Programme Director
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Support
6 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Support Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) LAMP
1 2 (9.52%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 2 (9.52%) Device Driver
3 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.52%) VMS
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (19.05%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (19.05%) Open Source
1 4 (19.05%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (9.52%) Budget Management
3 2 (9.52%) Budgeting
3 2 (9.52%) Information Security
3 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
3 2 (9.52%) OSINT
3 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
3 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
3 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Bash
1 2 (9.52%) C++
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CCNA
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (9.52%) Firmware
1 2 (9.52%) vSphere
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) OpenView
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Cisco
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 2 (9.52%) ProCurve
4 2 (9.52%) Synology
4 2 (9.52%) Veeam
4 2 (9.52%) Zerto
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) ZyXEL