Wireless Contracts in Birmingham

Wireless
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 62 66
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing Wireless 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.65% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.41% 3.33% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £293
25th Percentile £143 - £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £1,000 £388
Median % change year-on-year -85.50% +158.06% +55.00%
75th Percentile £148 - £456
90th Percentile - - £468
West Midlands median daily rate £205 £463 £435
% change year-on-year -55.68% +6.32% +74.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

Wireless 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 37 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.09% 19.40% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 93 68
10th Percentile £165 £205 £313
25th Percentile £319 £290 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £597 £488 £700
90th Percentile £698 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £19.95 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
% change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless Security
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler