Wireless Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Wireless
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 32 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Wireless 6 5 21
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.58% 1.39% 4.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.53% 12.82% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 14
10th Percentile - - £356
25th Percentile £443 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £493 - £525
90th Percentile £520 - £564
East of England median daily rate £520 £438 £435
% change year-on-year +18.86% +0.57% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £32.08
25th Percentile £29.00 £59.00 £32.96
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £34.22
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +81.18% +3.70%
75th Percentile £31.00 £65.00 £41.88
90th Percentile - - £54.25
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £50.53 £33.44
% change year-on-year -68.34% +51.11% +141.66%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 57 39 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 15.04% 10.83% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 39
10th Percentile £406 £268 £236
25th Percentile £443 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £545
90th Percentile £700 £648 £588
East of England median daily rate £454 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.42% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile - - £15.36
25th Percentile £16.00 - £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.79% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £33.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £47.58 £34.90
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.95% -21.15% +26.83%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Wireless

Wireless
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 Wireless within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Cambridge -11 3 £445 - 13
Peterborough - 2 - - 2
Wireless
East of England

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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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) PuTTY
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) 3GPP
3 1 (16.67%) 5G
3 1 (16.67%) 5G NR
3 1 (16.67%) LTE
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Network Management
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Intel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) Peregrine
2 2 (33.33%) Remedy
2 2 (33.33%) VMware