Wireless Contracts in Cumbria

Wireless
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 17 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 8.72% - 3.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.50% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £364 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - £486
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £634 - -
North West median daily rate £400 £396 £400
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 103 46 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 52.82% 17.76% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 10
10th Percentile £363 £463 £424
25th Percentile £425 £515 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +29.73% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £667 £487
90th Percentile £638 £672 £543
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +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%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Cumbria

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Cumbria

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Cumbria

Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Cumbria

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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 Wireless within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 16 £468 -
Carlisle - 1 £275 - 1
Wireless
North West

Wireless
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (70.59%) Cisco Wireless
2 12 (70.59%) VPN
3 9 (52.94%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (52.94%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (52.94%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (41.18%) Network Security
5 4 (23.53%) WAN
6 3 (17.65%) LAN
7 2 (11.76%) BGP
7 2 (11.76%) Broadband
7 2 (11.76%) Converged Networks
7 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
7 2 (11.76%) OSPF
7 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
7 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (5.88%) DHCP
8 1 (5.88%) DNS
General
1 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 1 (5.88%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Network Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.76%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
1 2 (11.76%) Migration
1 2 (11.76%) Network Design
1 2 (11.76%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
2 1 (5.88%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
2 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
2 1 (5.88%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CCNA
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (82.35%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.76%) Meraki
3 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) VMware