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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 63 88
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -8
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 23 34 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.77% 2.22% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.95% 13.33% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 18
10th Percentile £156 - £187
25th Percentile £168 £180 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £219 £193 £369
Median % change year-on-year +13.34% -47.66% -1.67%
75th Percentile £342 £350 £494
90th Percentile £453 £481 £556
England median daily rate £425 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 6
10th Percentile - - £15.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.27
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% -56.91% +144.03%
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £73.75
90th Percentile - - £78.75
England median hourly rate £16.30 £20.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -18.50% -61.17% +212.12%

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 210 255 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.19% 16.67% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 110 206
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £363 £256 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -9.72% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £588 £675
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 54
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.32 £17.06
25th Percentile £32.74 £20.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £87.50 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -2 16 £350 - 9
Suffolk +7 2 £520 +188.89% 1
Essex +1 2 £219 -37.50% 11
Bedfordshire -13 2 £160 -56.46% 4
Hertfordshire - 1 £165 - 8
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 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) LAN
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) WAN
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (17.39%) DHCP
3 4 (17.39%) DNS
3 4 (17.39%) VPN
3 4 (17.39%) Wireless
4 3 (13.04%) 802.11
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (13.04%) Network Security
4 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
4 3 (13.04%) WLAN
5 2 (8.70%) BIG-IP
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (8.70%) IOS XR
5 2 (8.70%) IPsec
5 2 (8.70%) VLAN
6 1 (4.35%) Wireless Security
6 1 (4.35%) WPA2
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (21.74%) Retail
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Analyst
1 11 (47.83%) Service Analyst
1 11 (47.83%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Services Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Call Centre Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Customer Service
2 12 (52.17%) ITIL
3 11 (47.83%) Incident Management
3 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) Mathematics
4 6 (26.09%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Network Design
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (4.35%) ITSM
6 1 (4.35%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (4.35%) Power Management
6 1 (4.35%) Project Management
6 1 (4.35%) Prototyping
6 1 (4.35%) Service Management
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.35%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) C
2 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) A+ Certification
1 11 (47.83%) MCSA
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CCIE
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
4 2 (8.70%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE Security
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) AppManager
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Citrix
1 11 (47.83%) ServiceNow
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Cisco
4 4 (17.39%) Meraki
5 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
6 2 (8.70%) F5
6 2 (8.70%) VMware
7 1 (4.35%) AirMagnet
7 1 (4.35%) Ekahau
7 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.35%) Ivanti
7 1 (4.35%) Zscaler