802.11 Contract Job Trends in England

IEEE 802.11
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring 802.11 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 457 522
Rank change year-on-year -119 +65 +98
Contract jobs citing 802.11 12 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.029% 0.045% 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.35% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile £300 £295 -
25th Percentile £328 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £454 £413
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +10.06% -15.12%
75th Percentile £436 £488 £419
90th Percentile £440 - -
UK median daily rate £425 £454 £413
% change year-on-year -6.39% +10.06% -15.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

802.11 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,843 3,158 4,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 13.05% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,404 1,963 2,893
10th Percentile £250 £220 £207
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 117 389
10th Percentile £16.59 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.62% -27.50% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.15 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £39.02 £31.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.74% -20.53% +116.22%

802.11
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 802.11 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

802.11 job vacancy trend in England

802.11
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing 802.11.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing 802.11

802.11
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing 802.11.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing 802.11

802.11
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.11 within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
North of England - 5 £300 -
North West - 5 £300 -
London -67 4 £430 -9.55%
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Midlands - 3 - - 1
802.11
UK

802.11
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Wireless
2 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
2 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (50.00%) VLAN
3 6 (50.00%) WLAN
4 5 (41.67%) BGP
4 5 (41.67%) EIGRP
4 5 (41.67%) OSPF
5 4 (33.33%) 5G
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (33.33%) Firewall
5 4 (33.33%) IPsec
5 4 (33.33%) MPLS
5 4 (33.33%) VPN
5 4 (33.33%) VXLAN
5 4 (33.33%) WAN
5 4 (33.33%) Wireless Security
6 3 (25.00%) LAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Wireless Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) BYOD
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (16.67%) Deep Packet Inspection
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Escalation Management
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Predictive Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) Network Design
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CCIE
1 3 (25.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 3 (25.00%) CCNP
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) CWDP
1 3 (25.00%) CWNA
1 3 (25.00%) CWNE
1 3 (25.00%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) Aruba
3 4 (33.33%) Ekahau
3 4 (33.33%) Meraki
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto