Wireless Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Wireless
North West > Cumbria

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 11 17 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 6.04% 8.67% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.92% 16.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 0
10th Percentile £414 £300 -
25th Percentile £493 £364 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £446 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - -
75th Percentile £604 £563 -
90th Percentile £615 £634 -
North West median daily rate £417 £400 £396
% change year-on-year +4.25% +1.01% -12.49%

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 48 103 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 26.37% 52.55% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 31
10th Percentile £360 £363 £463
25th Percentile £464 £425 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +18.31%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £669
90th Percentile £612 £638 £672
North West median daily rate £476 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.78% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.39
Median hourly rate - - £41.23
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.59 £26.75
% change year-on-year +70.59% -8.09% -14.40%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Wireless job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Cumbria over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Cumbria

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Wireless

Wireless
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 6 May 2026. 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 -5 8 £550 +17.65% 1
Wireless
North West

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
1 11 (100.00%) VLAN
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (54.55%) DHCP
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) NAS
2 6 (54.55%) NX-OS
2 6 (54.55%) SAN
2 6 (54.55%) Structured Cabling
3 5 (45.45%) LAN
3 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (45.45%) WAN
3 5 (45.45%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Network Architect
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITSM
2 5 (45.45%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Application Security
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) CCNA
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) CCNP
2 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (54.55%) Server+ Certification
4 4 (36.36%) Degree
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
1 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 5 (45.45%) Aruba
2 5 (45.45%) CheckPoint
2 5 (45.45%) Ekahau
2 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto