Wireless Contracts in Cheshire

Wireless
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 -6 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 8 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.26% 1.99% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.77% 15.38% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £309 £505 £484
25th Percentile - £513 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -14.29% +22.50%
75th Percentile £326 £538 £691
90th Percentile £411 £545 £711
North West median daily rate £325 £350 £486
% change year-on-year -7.14% -27.98% +13.02%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 103 65 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.27% 12.95% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 27 48
10th Percentile £320 £200 £350
25th Percentile £375 £374 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £573 £544 £593
90th Percentile £688 £765 £621
North West median daily rate £442 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -14.13% +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%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Cheshire

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Cheshire

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Wireless

Wireless
DemandTrendContract 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 Wireless within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester - 6 £325 -
Knutsford -18 2 £303 -40.98% 1
Wireless
North West

Wireless
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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (62.50%) WLAN
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (12.50%) DMZ
5 1 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (12.50%) DWDM
5 1 (12.50%) Internet
5 1 (12.50%) IPsec
5 1 (12.50%) L2TP
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) Multicast
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) CMDB
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
1 5 (62.50%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Asset Management
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (62.50%) Problem Management
3 3 (37.50%) Product Management
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) B2B
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Service Design
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 5 (62.50%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) CCNP
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk