Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 52 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.95% 0.59% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.00% 4.69% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £463 - -
North West median daily rate £445 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -12.44% +12.94% +5.88%

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 100 64 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.87% 12.67% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 26 48
10th Percentile £314 £225 £350
25th Percentile £363 £386 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £538 £547 £593
90th Percentile £688 £769 £621
North West median daily rate £435 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -15.53% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £46.75 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -3.73% +191.13% -27.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in Cheshire

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

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 29 August 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 -1 6 £325 -
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