Wi-Fi Contracts in Cheshire

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 57 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.35% 0.20% 1.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.23% 1.30% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile - - £270
25th Percentile - £190 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £200 £388
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -48.39% +34.78%
75th Percentile - £210 £463
90th Percentile £463 - £485
North West median daily rate £413 £458 £470
% change year-on-year -9.84% -2.66% +60.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.57% 15.19% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £271
25th Percentile £313 £199 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +1.33% +15.46%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in Cheshire

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in Cheshire

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in Cheshire

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in Cheshire

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Chester - 6 £325 - 4
Wi-Fi
North West

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) DMZ
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) DWDM
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) L2TP
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) CMDB
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
1 5 (83.33%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Asset Management
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Metrics
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) B2B
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk