WLAN Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WLAN 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 10.71% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 60.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 17.86% - 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £380 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -70.37%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £418 £350 £200
% change year-on-year +19.29% +75.00% -52.94%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Blackpool

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) OCI
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Network Design
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Arista
1 3 (100.00%) Aruba
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto