WLAN Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 118 116
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +37
Contract jobs citing WLAN 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.082% 0.16% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.20% 1.71% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £453 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £534 - £525
90th Percentile £544 - -
Central London median daily rate £488 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -15.00% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

WLAN 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 167 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.83% 9.60% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 116 133
10th Percentile £290 £259 £239
25th Percentile £413 £418 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -15.56%
75th Percentile £666 £662 £619
90th Percentile £738 £744 £773
Central London median daily rate £525 £544 £475
% change year-on-year -3.45% +14.47% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% +226.72% -40.00%
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 £14.25
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 £13.50
% change year-on-year +2.02% +226.72% -40.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

WLAN job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WLAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WLAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler