Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 22 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 -
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 13 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 9.70% 6.18% 18.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.21% 42.11% 38.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 20
10th Percentile £300 £204 -
25th Percentile £413 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £514 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -8.67% -
75th Percentile £538 £515 £627
90th Percentile £564 £518 -
North West median daily rate £445 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -13.17% +13.89% +24.14%

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 38 38 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 28.36% 14.67% 47.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 45
10th Percentile £379 £446 £437
25th Percentile £435 £511 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £486
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +28.60% +90.59%
75th Percentile £553 £670 £600
90th Percentile £603 £688 £627
North West median daily rate £434 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -15.78% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
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 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
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Cumbria over the 6 months to 2 September 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 September 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 +9 12 £519 +0.83% 2
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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) WAN
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco ISE
3 6 (46.15%) NetScaler
4 2 (15.38%) BGP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
4 2 (15.38%) HSRP
4 2 (15.38%) IPsec
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) OSPF
4 2 (15.38%) Skype
4 2 (15.38%) VLAN
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) Wireless
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Network Management
2 7 (53.85%) Impact Assessments
2 7 (53.85%) Load Balancing
2 7 (53.85%) Network Architecture
2 7 (53.85%) Network Design
3 2 (15.38%) Disk Encryption
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) ITSM
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) VB
1 2 (15.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) BitLocker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
1 11 (84.62%) Palo Alto
2 8 (61.54%) Meraki
3 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
5 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow