Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 3 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.81% 4.07% 3.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.50% 23.81% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £410 £170 £193
% change year-on-year +141.18% -11.92% -44.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.63 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £14.89 £15.57 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -4.48% +4.15%
75th Percentile £15.16 £16.30 £21.37
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.12 £16.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.73% -20.00% +27.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

Wi-Fi 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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 63 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.81% 17.07% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 17
10th Percentile £314 £250 £268
25th Percentile £463 £443 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £588
90th Percentile £725 £734 £600
East of England median daily rate £495 £550 £420
% change year-on-year -10.00% +30.95% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 16
10th Percentile £14.96 - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.56 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% - -15.32%
75th Percentile £27.23 £31.31 £21.37
90th Percentile £34.25 £71.25 £60.63
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £45.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.28% -17.31%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Peterborough -1 2 - - 2
Cambridge +6 1 - - 11
Wi-Fi
East of England

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Broadband
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Softphone
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) B2C
2 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Apple