Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 9 December 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 9 December 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > East of England
6 months to
9 Dec 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 162 132 150
Rank change year-on-year -30 +18 -34
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 47 69 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 0.95% 1.36% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.25% 7.88% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 23
East of England median daily rate £333 £338 £325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -13.33%
10th Percentile £168 £152 £113
90th Percentile £420 £484 £469
England median daily rate £360 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 6
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £41.75 £28.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -61.68% +46.49% +32.40%
10th Percentile £10.50 £36.25 £11.88
90th Percentile £32.75 £51.38 £42.50
England median hourly rate £18.88 £34.08 £19.00
% change year-on-year -44.60% +79.37% -11.73%

Wi-Fi is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England
Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 896 876 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.09% 17.33% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 448 462
East of England median daily rate £400 £369 £360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +8.47% +2.43% -4.00%
10th Percentile £177 £155 £200
90th Percentile £550 £564 £535
England median daily rate £425 £403 £400
% change year-on-year +5.59% +0.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 113 71
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £36.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -42.86% -22.22% +22.03%
10th Percentile £12.25 £12.80 £12.75
90th Percentile £49.75 £48.40 £44.00
England median hourly rate £20.00 £18.70 £22.50
% change year-on-year +6.95% -16.89% +9.76%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 December 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 December 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 9 December 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire -10 18 £333 -1.48% 19
Hertfordshire -8 13 £325 -3.70% 5
Essex -16 8 - - 3
Bedfordshire +9 4 £350 +13.82% 1
Norfolk - 3 - - 1
Suffolk - 1 - -
Wi-Fi
England

For the 6 months to 9 December 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Wi-Fi also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region with a requirement for Wi-Fi.

1 23 (48.94%) Linux
2 20 (42.55%) Wireless
3 18 (38.30%) DNS
4 16 (34.04%) Python
5 15 (31.91%) Jenkins
6 14 (29.79%) Git (software)
6 14 (29.79%) Bluetooth
6 14 (29.79%) Cisco
7 13 (27.66%) DHCP
7 13 (27.66%) Perl
8 12 (25.53%) WLAN
8 12 (25.53%) JIRA
8 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (23.40%) Firewall
9 11 (23.40%) WAN
9 11 (23.40%) LAN
9 11 (23.40%) Windows
10 10 (21.28%) VPN
10 10 (21.28%) Scrum
10 10 (21.28%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (21.28%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
11 9 (19.15%) C++
11 9 (19.15%) CheckPoint
12 8 (17.02%) Firmware
12 8 (17.02%) Configuration Management
12 8 (17.02%) Juniper
12 8 (17.02%) Embedded C
12 8 (17.02%) C
12 8 (17.02%) VoIP

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.38%) Skype for Business
2 1 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.13%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) Office 365
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.13%) Google Cloud Platform
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Azure
2 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (42.55%) Wireless
2 18 (38.30%) DNS
3 14 (29.79%) Bluetooth
4 13 (27.66%) DHCP
5 12 (25.53%) WLAN
6 11 (23.40%) Firewall
6 11 (23.40%) LAN
6 11 (23.40%) WAN
7 10 (21.28%) VPN
8 8 (17.02%) VoIP
9 7 (14.89%) Broadband
9 7 (14.89%) DLNA
9 7 (14.89%) DSL
9 7 (14.89%) FTP
9 7 (14.89%) HTTP
9 7 (14.89%) Internet
9 7 (14.89%) IPv4
9 7 (14.89%) IPv6
9 7 (14.89%) OSPF
9 7 (14.89%) UPnP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
1 1 (2.13%) MySQL
1 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) Jenkins
2 14 (29.79%) Git (software)
3 12 (25.53%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (6.38%) Electronics
2 2 (4.26%) Law
3 1 (2.13%) Automotive
3 1 (2.13%) Billing
3 1 (2.13%) Finance
3 1 (2.13%) Retail
3 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Test Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Network Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Perl Scripter
6 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.38%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Test Scripter
7 2 (4.26%) IT Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) IT Support
7 2 (4.26%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Linux Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Ajax
1 7 (14.89%) CGI
1 7 (14.89%) HTML
1 7 (14.89%) JSON
2 6 (12.77%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.13%) Qt
3 1 (2.13%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (14.89%) Media Streaming
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (48.94%) Linux
2 11 (23.40%) Windows
3 8 (17.02%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (12.77%) Windows 7
5 4 (8.51%) Android
5 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.51%) Windows XP
6 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.26%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.13%) Unix
8 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.28%) Collaborative Working
2 10 (21.28%) Scrum
3 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
4 8 (17.02%) Configuration Management
4 8 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (14.89%) Creative Thinking
5 7 (14.89%) Defect Tracking
5 7 (14.89%) Innovative Thinking
5 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
5 7 (14.89%) Test Scripting
6 6 (12.77%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (6.38%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (6.38%) Mathematics
7 3 (6.38%) Security Patching
7 3 (6.38%) Software Testing
8 2 (4.26%) Break/Fix
8 2 (4.26%) Migration
8 2 (4.26%) Network Architecture
8 2 (4.26%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) Python
2 13 (27.66%) Perl
3 9 (19.15%) C++
4 8 (17.02%) C
4 8 (17.02%) Embedded C
5 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.13%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) CCNP
1 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.13%) CCNA
3 1 (2.13%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Firmware
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.51%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (4.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Stealthwatch
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Cisco
2 9 (19.15%) CheckPoint
3 8 (17.02%) Juniper
4 4 (8.51%) Blue Coat
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.38%) Symantec
6 2 (4.26%) Altiris
6 2 (4.26%) Aruba
6 2 (4.26%) Dell
6 2 (4.26%) F5
6 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.26%) Sophos
6 2 (4.26%) VMware
6 2 (4.26%) Xerox
7 1 (2.13%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) NETGEAR
7 1 (2.13%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (2.13%) SonicWALL