Wi-Fi Contracts in Cumbria

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 11 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 30 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 15.38% 5.47% 3.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.13% 32.56% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 1
10th Percentile £300 £458 -
25th Percentile £372 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £515 £486
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +5.97% -
75th Percentile £528 £515 -
90th Percentile £638 £521 -
North West median daily rate £413 £458 £470
% change year-on-year -9.84% -2.66% +60.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 103 43 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 52.82% 16.80% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 34 13
10th Percentile £363 £463 £425
25th Percentile £425 £515 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £486
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.46% +1.25%
75th Percentile £588 £668 -
90th Percentile £638 £672 £525
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.23 -
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 Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in Cumbria

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in Cumbria

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

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

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in Cumbria

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria 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
Barrow-in-Furness +11 26 £465 -9.71% 1
Wi-Fi
North West

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 20 (66.67%) WAN
3 16 (53.33%) Cisco ISE
3 16 (53.33%) NetScaler
4 6 (20.00%) BGP
4 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 6 (20.00%) HSRP
4 6 (20.00%) IPsec
4 6 (20.00%) OSPF
5 4 (13.33%) DHCP
5 4 (13.33%) DNS
5 4 (13.33%) LAN
5 4 (13.33%) Skype
5 4 (13.33%) VLAN
5 4 (13.33%) VPN
6 2 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (86.67%) Network Engineer
2 14 (46.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Deployment Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
1 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
1 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Network Management
2 18 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 18 (60.00%) Network Design
3 13 (43.33%) Network Architecture
4 12 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (20.00%) ITIL
6 4 (13.33%) Disk Encryption
6 4 (13.33%) ITSM
6 4 (13.33%) Service Management
7 2 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (13.33%) VB
1 4 (13.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 26 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Cisco
1 26 (86.67%) Palo Alto
2 18 (60.00%) Meraki
3 8 (26.67%) SolarWinds
4 6 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow