Wireless Contracts in Central London

Wireless
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 111 150
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +12
Contract jobs citing Wireless 10 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.90% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.65% 9.05% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 16
10th Percentile £341 £252 £145
25th Percentile £408 £252 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £251
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +44.28% -47.66%
75th Percentile £572 £478 £516
90th Percentile £577 £604 £591
London median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
London median hourly rate £38.33 £18.93 £65.72
% change year-on-year +102.48% -71.19% +94.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Central London

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +1 8 £513 +7.89% 4
City of Westminster 0 1 £425 -
West End of London -3 1 £413 +63.57%
Wireless
London

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) VLAN
3 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (30.00%) WLAN
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 2 (20.00%) IPsec
4 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) BGP
5 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
5 1 (10.00%) DHCP
5 1 (10.00%) DNS
5 1 (10.00%) IPv6
5 1 (10.00%) MPLS
5 1 (10.00%) OSPF
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) iPad
3 1 (10.00%) iPhone
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Change Management
1 3 (30.00%) High Availability
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Line Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Use Case
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CASP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCSA
3 1 (10.00%) CCSE
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) GCIA
3 1 (10.00%) GCIH
3 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (10.00%) Netcool
1 1 (10.00%) OPNET
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Meraki
2 3 (30.00%) Forcepoint
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) Arista
3 2 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) 3PAR
4 1 (10.00%) Aruba
4 1 (10.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (10.00%) Ekahau
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) ForeScout
4 1 (10.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Trend Micro