WLAN Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 93 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +3
Contract jobs citing WLAN 4 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.27% 0.59% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.65% 3.03% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile £363 £194 £274
25th Percentile £398 £444 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £583 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +29.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £458 £604 £490
90th Percentile £459 £640 -
South East median daily rate £458 £583 £470
% change year-on-year -21.44% +24.04% +1.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

WLAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 243 297 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.44% 19.44% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 129 270
10th Percentile £255 £230 £200
25th Percentile £325 £356 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £537 £608 £575
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £17.63 £22.28 £24.39
25th Percentile £28.00 £27.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £38.25 £71.07
Median % change year-on-year +69.93% -46.18% +202.40%
75th Percentile £84.50 £48.94 £75.99
90th Percentile £89.88 £54.83 £84.86
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

WLAN job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WLAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WLAN

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Wokingham -25 2 £458 -21.44%
Reading +6 1 £340 -41.68% 2
WLAN
South East

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds