Wireless Contract Job Trends in Durham

Wireless
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Wireless 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 8.82% 1.69% 2.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 33.33% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
North East median daily rate £175 £550 -
% change year-on-year -68.18% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 17.65% 5.08% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £215 £303 -
25th Percentile £238 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% +26.98%
75th Percentile £750 £494 -
90th Percentile - £528 £413
North East median daily rate £247 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -43.66% +9.38% -27.27%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Durham

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Durham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Durham over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Durham

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Wireless

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Durham region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Stockton-on-Tees 0 1 £550 -
Darlington - 1 - -
Wireless
North East

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) NFC
2 1 (33.33%) RFID
2 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) VMware