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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing Wireless 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.78% 1.20% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.52% 4.55% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £228 £345 £383
25th Percentile £293 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -2.17%
75th Percentile £469 £459 £475
90th Percentile £510 £469 -
East of England median daily rate £325 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -31.58% +13.10% -6.67%

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 46 66 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.95% 26.29% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 25
10th Percentile £219 £363 £182
25th Percentile £356 £415 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £508 £480
90th Percentile £660 £619 £656
East of England median daily rate £448 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -5.79% +13.10% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 36
10th Percentile £16.00 - £14.48
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £16.30
Median hourly rate £17.25 £18.45 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -13.66% +37.87%
75th Percentile £19.06 £21.46 £21.46
90th Percentile £55.30 £21.86 £63.75
East of England median hourly rate £38.00 £58.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -35.04% +14.15% -2.38%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Cambridgeshire

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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

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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 5 April 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
Cambridge -10 1 £400 -8.57% 13
Peterborough - 1 £190 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 3GPP
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) 5G NR
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) NB-IoT
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
1 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow