Wireless Contracts in the East of England

Wireless
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 82 62
Rank change year-on-year +39 -20 +36
Contract jobs citing Wireless 39 30 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.16% 1.57% 2.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.73% 10.14% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 30
10th Percentile £315 £320 £186
25th Percentile £431 £363 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £420 £360
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £556 £463 £484
90th Percentile - £475 £488
England median daily rate £468 £413 £423
% change year-on-year +13.33% -2.37% +10.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.06 - £33.10
25th Percentile £24.66 - £35.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £12.86 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +382.12% -69.01% +46.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £14.31 £48.00
90th Percentile - £15.18 £50.70
England median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in the East of England

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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 Wireless within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +41 33 £531 +26.49% 17
Cambridgeshire +6 3 £438 -2.78% 26
Norfolk +5 2 £200 - 1
Essex +10 1 £300 - 13
Wireless
England

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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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.56%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (2.56%) Sketch
2 1 (2.56%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.56%) AWS
2 1 (2.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 15 (38.46%) 5G
2 11 (28.21%) 5G NR
3 5 (12.82%) 3GPP
4 4 (10.26%) LAN
4 4 (10.26%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (7.69%) 4G
5 3 (7.69%) Network Security
5 3 (7.69%) WAN
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (5.13%) Firewall
6 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.13%) WLAN
7 1 (2.56%) 802.11
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (2.56%) Multicast
7 1 (2.56%) OSPF
7 1 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.56%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) InfluxDB
1 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Embedded Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) CUDA Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Radio Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Test Automation Developer
7 1 (2.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Data Science Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Linux Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Product Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) REST
2 3 (7.69%) RESTful
3 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.13%) Swagger
4 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.56%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.56%) NumPy
4 1 (2.56%) Pandas
4 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.56%) Seaborn
4 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) CUDA
1 7 (17.95%) FPGA
2 5 (12.82%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (7.69%) ASIC
3 3 (7.69%) VHDL
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) CMDB
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
1 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
2 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
3 4 (10.26%) Agile
3 4 (10.26%) OO
3 4 (10.26%) TDD
4 3 (7.69%) Network Architecture
4 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.69%) Prototyping
4 3 (7.69%) Software Architecture
5 2 (5.13%) API Development
5 2 (5.13%) Asynchronous Programming
5 2 (5.13%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (5.13%) Microservices
5 2 (5.13%) Network Management
5 2 (5.13%) Validation
6 1 (2.56%) Change Management
6 1 (2.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.56%) OOP
6 1 (2.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) C++
2 7 (17.95%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) C
4 3 (7.69%) Tcl
5 2 (5.13%) Go
5 2 (5.13%) SQL
6 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) CCNP
1 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) ECDL
1 1 (2.56%) JNCIE
1 1 (2.56%) JNCIP
1 1 (2.56%) JNCIS
1 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.56%) PhD
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) NVIDIA
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco
2 2 (5.13%) HP
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) AirMagnet
3 1 (2.56%) Altiris
3 1 (2.56%) Apple
3 1 (2.56%) Dell
3 1 (2.56%) Ekahau
3 1 (2.56%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.56%) Juniper
3 1 (2.56%) Nokia
3 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto