Wireless Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Wireless
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing Wireless 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.41% 1.05% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.65% 6.52% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £529 - £521
25th Percentile £553 £121 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £123 £613
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -80.00% -5.77%
75th Percentile £678 £256 £617
90th Percentile £706 £335 £618
South East median daily rate £305 £426 £395
% change year-on-year -28.45% +7.91% -12.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 43 46 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.74% 16.14% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 87
10th Percentile £130 £140 £246
25th Percentile £275 £401 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £598 £629 £588
90th Percentile £640 £656 £825
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 20
10th Percentile - - £17.93
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile - - £34.69
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £60.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -19.47% +6.23% +26.56%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Buckinghamshire

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -7 2 £613 +63.33% 2
Wireless
South East

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) IPv6
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) CCDA
1 1 (50.00%) CCDP
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCIP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) BT
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Openreach
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler