Wi-Fi Contracts in the East of England

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 48 88
Rank change year-on-year -12 +40 -6
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 29 67 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.60% 3.49% 1.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.55% 23.26% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 19
10th Percentile £190 £192 £188
25th Percentile £193 £250 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £232 £300 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% -38.46% +134.94%
75th Percentile £347 £325 £500
90th Percentile £453 £508 £700
England median daily rate £425 £405 £375
% change year-on-year +4.94% +8.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 43 10
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £50.81
90th Percentile - £21.44 £77.75
England median hourly rate £15.29 £16.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.33% -72.50% +263.64%

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 251 288 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.47% 14.99% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 137 219
10th Percentile £225 £200 £209
25th Percentile £334 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £621
90th Percentile £613 £575 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 97 39
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £19.64 £16.30 £16.77
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -57.69% +306.63%
75th Percentile £81.10 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.00 - £74.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion 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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England.

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

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 3 July 2025.

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

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

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the East of England

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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
Cambridgeshire 0 21 £350 +0.72% 26
Essex +11 3 £226 -9.60% 22
Suffolk - 3 £355 - 5
Bedfordshire -14 2 - - 7
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) LAN
2 4 (13.79%) DHCP
2 4 (13.79%) DNS
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) Network Security
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) WAN
3 3 (10.34%) Wireless
3 3 (10.34%) WLAN
4 2 (6.90%) BIG-IP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (6.90%) IOS XR
4 2 (6.90%) IPsec
4 2 (6.90%) VLAN
5 1 (3.45%) 802.11
5 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.45%) VoIP
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless Security
5 1 (3.45%) WPA2
General
1 5 (17.24%) Retail
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Legal
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Analyst
1 20 (68.97%) Service Analyst
1 20 (68.97%) Service Desk Analyst
2 15 (51.72%) Technical Analyst
2 15 (51.72%) Technical Services Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Call Centre Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Network Designer
6 1 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cabling Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Mac Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Customer Service
2 21 (72.41%) ITIL
3 20 (68.97%) Incident Management
4 18 (62.07%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (51.72%) Mathematics
5 15 (51.72%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.90%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.90%) Network Design
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security
7 1 (3.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 1 (3.45%) Incident Response
7 1 (3.45%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (3.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (3.45%) SIEM
7 1 (3.45%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 1 (3.45%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (3.45%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (3.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) A+ Certification
1 20 (68.97%) MCSA
1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CCNA
4 2 (6.90%) CCNP
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE Security
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (58.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) AppManager
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) Citrix
1 20 (68.97%) ServiceNow
2 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Meraki
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) AirMagnet
5 1 (3.45%) Ekahau
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) Zscaler