Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 60 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +34
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 57 29 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.56% 2.79% 3.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.59% 11.74% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 5 18
10th Percentile £303 £189 £192
25th Percentile £325 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £238 £288
Median % change year-on-year +108.42% -17.39% -38.67%
75th Percentile £534 £375 £300
90th Percentile £538 £468 £468
England median daily rate £450 £425 £395
% change year-on-year +5.88% +7.59% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 43
10th Percentile £14.07 - £14.16
25th Percentile £15.63 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £16.50 £15.14 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -7.12% +5.16%
75th Percentile £16.79 £15.66 £21.37
90th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £21.44
England median hourly rate £22.81 £15.14 £18.75
% change year-on-year +50.66% -19.25% -56.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 264 247 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.87% 23.73% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 134
10th Percentile £201 £225 £200
25th Percentile £356 £363 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £551
90th Percentile £600 £623 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 56 103
10th Percentile £16.52 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.13 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £81.10 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -12.79% +134.08%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wi-Fi.

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

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wi-Fi.

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

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 19 June 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
Suffolk +18 33 £495 +39.44%
Essex -7 12 - - 5
Hertfordshire - 8 £450 - 6
Cambridgeshire -13 2 £400 +14.29% 4
Norfolk - 2 £221 - 3
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (17.54%) Azure
3 8 (14.04%) Google Ads
4 4 (7.02%) Apple Pay
5 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.75%) AWS
6 1 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.75%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless
6 1 (1.75%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (31.58%) Firewall
2 12 (21.05%) LAN
3 11 (19.30%) WAN
4 10 (17.54%) VPN
5 9 (15.79%) IPsec
6 7 (12.28%) Broadband
6 7 (12.28%) Network Security
6 7 (12.28%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (3.51%) Bluetooth
7 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.51%) Wireless
8 1 (1.75%) BGP
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.75%) DHCP
8 1 (1.75%) DNS
8 1 (1.75%) OSPF
8 1 (1.75%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Git
1 4 (7.02%) GitLab
1 4 (7.02%) Gradle
2 1 (1.75%) MSI
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
2 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.51%) Electronics
3 2 (3.51%) Legal
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Designer
1 20 (35.09%) Network Designer
2 12 (21.05%) IT Support
3 10 (17.54%) Developer
3 10 (17.54%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.53%) Data Centre Manager
5 6 (10.53%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 6 (10.53%) Data Manager
6 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (3.51%) Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) IT Technician
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Architect
7 1 (1.75%) Consultant
7 1 (1.75%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (1.75%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (1.75%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Network Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) IoT
2 8 (14.04%) Driving Licence
3 7 (12.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Windows
2 7 (12.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) DevOps
2 12 (21.05%) Software Engineering
3 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 9 (15.79%) Project Management
5 8 (14.04%) Change Management
5 8 (14.04%) Customer Experience
5 8 (14.04%) ITIL
5 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (12.28%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (12.28%) PRINCE2
6 7 (12.28%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (12.28%) Project Planning
6 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
7 6 (10.53%) Line Management
7 6 (10.53%) Test Automation
8 5 (8.77%) Agile
9 4 (7.02%) CI/CD
9 4 (7.02%) Microservices
9 4 (7.02%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) Java
2 4 (7.02%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) C
3 2 (3.51%) Python
4 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) CCSP
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Ansible
2 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.51%) Meraki
2 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.75%) Apple
3 1 (1.75%) Cisco
3 1 (1.75%) Computacenter
3 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) Juniper
3 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.75%) SAP