Wi-Fi Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	330	360	406
Rank change year-on-year	+30	+46
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi	280	278	229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.65%	0.56%	0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	4.68%	3.52%	3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted	178	178	104
Median daily rate	£360	£379	£300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.95%	+26.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£159	£205	£158
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£650	£463
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£375	£290
% change year-on-year	-6.66%	+29.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	28	12	20
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£19.00	£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-5.26%	-13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.45	£13.30	£13.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.00	£43.30	£64.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£18.25	£19.00	£35.50
% change year-on-year	-3.94%	-46.47%

Wi-Fi is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	5978	7894	7394
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	13.83%	15.96%	14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	9425	12827	12006
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£210	£230	£213
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	843	864	1004
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£28.00	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.21%	+22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.00	£12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£48.00	£45.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.50	£31.50	£23.50
% change year-on-year	-12.69%	+34.04%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Wi-Fi in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Wi-Fi in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Wi-Fi in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
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 Wi-Fi within the England region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+10	105	£418	+1.70%	24
South West	+19	44	£313	+13.63%	8
North of England	+69	40	£338	+43.61%	8
East of England	+7	35	£183	-43.84%	11
South East	+9	29	£375	+1.35%	7
Midlands	+1	27	£388	-29.54%	7
West Midlands	+22	19	£400	+0.31%	4
North East	+73	15	£575	+163.76%
North West	+27	14	£218	-43.87%	5
Yorkshire	+25	11	£338	-18.91%	3
East Midlands	-21	8	£375	-37.50%	3
Wi-Fi UK

Wi-Fi
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Wi-Fi also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Wi-Fi.

1	175 (35.57%)	LAN
2	165 (33.54%)	WAN
3	163 (33.13%)	Cisco
4	129 (26.22%)	Firewall
5	122 (24.80%)	Windows
6	100 (20.33%)	Microsoft
7	89 (18.09%)	Wireless
8	86 (17.48%)	VPN
9	82 (16.67%)	Cisco Certification
10	78 (15.85%)	Active Directory
11	77 (15.65%)	ITIL
12	67 (13.62%)	Data Centre
13	63 (12.80%)	Finance
14	57 (11.59%)	PRINCE2
15	55 (11.18%)	Project Management

15	55 (11.18%)	Security Cleared
16	49 (9.96%)	Cisco ASA
16	49 (9.96%)	Windows Server
17	47 (9.55%)	Microsoft Office
17	47 (9.55%)	DNS
18	45 (9.15%)	CheckPoint
18	45 (9.15%)	Telecoms
19	44 (8.94%)	VMware
19	44 (8.94%)	SC Cleared
20	43 (8.74%)	DHCP
21	42 (8.54%)	VoIP
21	42 (8.54%)	CCNP
21	42 (8.54%)	Agile Software Development
21	42 (8.54%)	Office 365
21	42 (8.54%)	Cisco Nexus

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	23 (4.67%)	MS Exchange
2	12 (2.44%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	11 (2.24%)	IIS
3	11 (2.24%)	Skype for Business
4	9 (1.83%)	SharePoint
5	8 (1.63%)	Confluence
6	2 (0.41%)	CMS
7	1 (0.20%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
7	1 (0.20%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	1 (0.20%)	OpenStack
7	1 (0.20%)	Oracle Application Server
7	1 (0.20%)	Oracle Service Bus
7	1 (0.20%)	Oracle SOA Suite
7	1 (0.20%)	SAS
7	1 (0.20%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	47 (9.55%)	Microsoft Office
2	20 (4.07%)	Microsoft Project
3	7 (1.42%)	Microsoft Excel
4	5 (1.02%)	MS Visio
5	4 (0.81%)	Acrobat
6	2 (0.41%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	1 (0.20%)	Simulink
7	1 (0.20%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	4 (0.81%)	Pegasus Opera
1	4 (0.81%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.41%)	Dynamics CRM
2	2 (0.41%)	NetSuite
3	1 (0.20%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	42 (8.54%)	Office 365
2	34 (6.91%)	Amazon AWS
3	33 (6.71%)	Microsoft Azure
4	10 (2.03%)	SaaS
5	9 (1.83%)	PaaS
5	9 (1.83%)	SuccessFactors
6	6 (1.22%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	4 (0.81%)	G Suite
8	3 (0.61%)	Azure Active Directory
9	2 (0.41%)	Cloud Computing
9	2 (0.41%)	IBM Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	175 (35.57%)	LAN
2	165 (33.54%)	WAN
3	129 (26.22%)	Firewall
4	89 (18.09%)	Wireless
5	86 (17.48%)	VPN
6	49 (9.96%)	Cisco ASA
7	47 (9.55%)	DNS
8	43 (8.74%)	DHCP
9	42 (8.54%)	Cisco Nexus
9	42 (8.54%)	VoIP
10	37 (7.52%)	MPLS
11	35 (7.11%)	VLAN
11	35 (7.11%)	WLAN
12	34 (6.91%)	TCP/IP
13	31 (6.30%)	Internet
14	26 (5.28%)	Network Security
15	25 (5.08%)	Bluetooth
15	25 (5.08%)	IP Telephony
16	21 (4.27%)	Broadband
17	19 (3.86%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	27 (5.49%)	SQL Server
2	5 (1.02%)	Big Data
2	5 (1.02%)	Crystal Reports
2	5 (1.02%)	MS Access
2	5 (1.02%)	SQL Server 2008
2	5 (1.02%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
3	4 (0.81%)	MongoDB
3	4 (0.81%)	MySQL
3	4 (0.81%)	Oracle Reports
3	4 (0.81%)	SQL Server 2012
4	2 (0.41%)	MariaDB
4	2 (0.41%)	NoSQL
4	2 (0.41%)	RDBMS
4	2 (0.41%)	Relational Database
5	1 (0.20%)	Data Lake
5	1 (0.20%)	Electronic Patient Records
5	1 (0.20%)	Oracle Database
5	1 (0.20%)	SQL Server 2016

Development Applications
1	10 (2.03%)	JIRA
2	9 (1.83%)	VSS/SourceSafe
3	8 (1.63%)	Git (software)
3	8 (1.63%)	Visual Studio
4	4 (0.81%)	Jenkins
5	3 (0.61%)	Eclipse
6	2 (0.41%)	NUnit
6	2 (0.41%)	Xcode
7	1 (0.20%)	Atlassian Bamboo
7	1 (0.20%)	Bugzilla
7	1 (0.20%)	LabVIEW
7	1 (0.20%)	Mercurial
7	1 (0.20%)	Octopus Deploy
7	1 (0.20%)	Rational DOORS
7	1 (0.20%)	Redmine
7	1 (0.20%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	1 (0.20%)	TeamCity
7	1 (0.20%)	Trac

General
1	63 (12.80%)	Finance
2	45 (9.15%)	Telecoms
3	23 (4.67%)	Retail
4	15 (3.05%)	Marketing
5	12 (2.44%)	Back Office
6	11 (2.24%)	Manufacturing
7	7 (1.42%)	Electronics
8	4 (0.81%)	Automotive
8	4 (0.81%)	Legal
9	3 (0.61%)	Local Government
10	2 (0.41%)	Banking
10	2 (0.41%)	German Language
10	2 (0.41%)	Multimedia
10	2 (0.41%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.20%)	Advertising
11	1 (0.20%)	Digital Economy
11	1 (0.20%)	Financial Institution
11	1 (0.20%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	99 (20.12%)	Network Engineer
2	85 (17.28%)	Project Manager
3	60 (12.20%)	Architect
4	44 (8.94%)	Cisco Engineer
5	43 (8.74%)	Cisco Network Engineer
6	32 (6.50%)	Analyst
7	23 (4.67%)	Support Engineer
8	21 (4.27%)	Infrastructure Engineer
9	20 (4.07%)	IT Support
9	20 (4.07%)	Network Architect
10	19 (3.86%)	Developer
10	19 (3.86%)	IT Manager
11	18 (3.66%)	Infrastructure Manager
12	17 (3.46%)	Infrastructure Project Manager
13	16 (3.25%)	Infrastructure Architect
13	16 (3.25%)	IT Engineer
13	16 (3.25%)	Test Engineer
14	14 (2.85%)	Cloud Architect
14	14 (2.85%)	IT Project Manager
14	14 (2.85%)	LAN Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	15 (3.05%)	XML
2	14 (2.85%)	Web Services
3	13 (2.64%)	802.1X
3	13 (2.64%)	REST
4	9 (1.83%)	JSON
4	9 (1.83%)	OAuth
4	9 (1.83%)	SAML
5	8 (1.63%)	.NET
5	8 (1.63%)	Middleware
6	6 (1.22%)	HTML
6	6 (1.22%)	XMPP
7	5 (1.02%)	.NET Framework
7	5 (1.02%)	jQuery
7	5 (1.02%)	SOAP
8	4 (0.81%)	Google Maps API
8	4 (0.81%)	LAMP
9	3 (0.61%)	Material Design
10	2 (0.41%)	Qt
10	2 (0.41%)	WCF
10	2 (0.41%)	WPF

Miscellaneous
1	67 (13.62%)	Data Centre
2	18 (3.66%)	Management Information System
3	17 (3.46%)	Private Cloud
3	17 (3.46%)	Video Conferencing
4	16 (3.25%)	Analytical Skills
5	14 (2.85%)	BYOD
6	13 (2.64%)	Driving Licence
6	13 (2.64%)	NHS
7	10 (2.03%)	Public Cloud
8	8 (1.63%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
9	7 (1.42%)	CCTV
9	7 (1.42%)	Mobile App
9	7 (1.42%)	STB
10	6 (1.22%)	Digital TV
10	6 (1.22%)	Fintech
10	6 (1.22%)	User Experience
11	5 (1.02%)	Client/Server
11	5 (1.02%)	Embedded Systems
12	4 (0.81%)	Device Driver
12	4 (0.81%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	122 (24.80%)	Windows
2	49 (9.96%)	Windows Server
3	41 (8.33%)	Windows 10
4	36 (7.32%)	Linux
4	36 (7.32%)	Windows Server 2008
5	35 (7.11%)	Windows 7
6	28 (5.69%)	Windows Server 2012
7	23 (4.67%)	Android
8	13 (2.64%)	Apple iOS
8	13 (2.64%)	Windows Server 2003
9	11 (2.24%)	Embedded Linux
10	9 (1.83%)	Mac OS X
11	7 (1.42%)	Windows XP
12	6 (1.22%)	Windows 8
13	5 (1.02%)	Unix
14	4 (0.81%)	Windows Phone
15	2 (0.41%)	CentOS
15	2 (0.41%)	Mac OS
15	2 (0.41%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16	1 (0.20%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	77 (15.65%)	ITIL
2	57 (11.59%)	PRINCE2
3	55 (11.18%)	Project Management
4	42 (8.54%)	Agile Software Development
5	37 (7.52%)	Stakeholder Management
6	29 (5.89%)	Service Management
7	28 (5.69%)	High Availability
8	27 (5.49%)	TOGAF
9	26 (5.28%)	ITIL V3
9	26 (5.28%)	Migration
10	24 (4.88%)	Network Design
11	22 (4.47%)	Risk Management
12	18 (3.66%)	Network Architecture
13	16 (3.25%)	Change Management
13	16 (3.25%)	Disaster Recovery
14	14 (2.85%)	Logistics
14	14 (2.85%)	SOA
14	14 (2.85%)	Software Engineering
15	13 (2.64%)	BCP
15	13 (2.64%)	Enterprise Architecture

Programming Languages
1	25 (5.08%)	Python
2	24 (4.88%)	C
3	22 (4.47%)	SQL
4	19 (3.86%)	Perl
5	17 (3.46%)	C++
6	15 (3.05%)	PowerShell
7	9 (1.83%)	C#
8	8 (1.63%)	Embedded C
9	7 (1.42%)	Bash Shell
9	7 (1.42%)	Java
10	6 (1.22%)	JavaScript
11	5 (1.02%)	Delphi
11	5 (1.02%)	Ruby
12	4 (0.81%)	Apple Swift
12	4 (0.81%)	MATLAB
12	4 (0.81%)	Objective-C
13	2 (0.41%)	T-SQL
13	2 (0.41%)	VBScript
14	1 (0.20%)	Embedded C++
14	1 (0.20%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	82 (16.67%)	Cisco Certification
2	55 (11.18%)	Security Cleared
3	44 (8.94%)	SC Cleared
4	42 (8.54%)	CCNP
5	40 (8.13%)	Degree
6	38 (7.72%)	CCNA
7	27 (5.49%)	CCIE
8	22 (4.47%)	PRINCE2 Certification
9	14 (2.85%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
10	11 (2.24%)	APMP
10	11 (2.24%)	Microsoft Certification
11	10 (2.03%)	JNCIA
12	9 (1.83%)	JNCIE
13	8 (1.63%)	MCSE
14	6 (1.22%)	DV Cleared
15	5 (1.02%)	BPSS Clearance
15	5 (1.02%)	Master's Degree
16	4 (0.81%)	CCDP
16	4 (0.81%)	MCP
16	4 (0.81%)	PMI Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	17 (3.46%)	SLA
2	9 (1.83%)	QA
3	4 (0.81%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	3 (0.61%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	3 (0.61%)	PMO
5	2 (0.41%)	GDPR
6	1 (0.20%)	HL7
6	1 (0.20%)	ISO 26262
6	1 (0.20%)	MISRA
6	1 (0.20%)	PCI DSS
6	1 (0.20%)	SNOMED CT

System Software
1	78 (15.85%)	Active Directory
2	29 (5.89%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	20 (4.07%)	Hyper-V
4	7 (1.42%)	Firmware
4	7 (1.42%)	XenApp
5	4 (0.81%)	XenDesktop
6	3 (0.61%)	Microsoft App-V
6	3 (0.61%)	Virtual Machines
6	3 (0.61%)	VMware ESXi
6	3 (0.61%)	VMware Server
7	2 (0.41%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.20%)	DFS Replication
8	1 (0.20%)	IAG
8	1 (0.20%)	VMware Workstation
8	1 (0.20%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	16 (3.25%)	Cisco Prime
2	13 (2.64%)	SCCM
3	7 (1.42%)	Ansible
3	7 (1.42%)	Puppet
4	6 (1.22%)	Cacti
4	6 (1.22%)	Cisco CUCM
5	5 (1.02%)	Opscode Chef
6	4 (0.81%)	FortiGate
6	4 (0.81%)	HP Quality Center
6	4 (0.81%)	SolarWinds Orion
7	3 (0.61%)	Backup Exec
7	3 (0.61%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7	3 (0.61%)	OpenView
7	3 (0.61%)	QRadar
7	3 (0.61%)	SCOrch
7	3 (0.61%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
7	3 (0.61%)	WSUS
8	2 (0.41%)	BMC PATROL
8	2 (0.41%)	Galera Cluster
8	2 (0.41%)	Nagios

Vendors
1	163 (33.13%)	Cisco
2	100 (20.33%)	Microsoft
3	45 (9.15%)	CheckPoint
4	44 (8.94%)	VMware
5	39 (7.93%)	Juniper
6	34 (6.91%)	HP
6	34 (6.91%)	Palo Alto
7	26 (5.28%)	Citrix
7	26 (5.28%)	Meraki
8	23 (4.67%)	SolarWinds
9	21 (4.27%)	F5
10	19 (3.86%)	Google
11	15 (3.05%)	Dell
12	14 (2.85%)	Apple
13	13 (2.64%)	Aruba
14	12 (2.44%)	ServiceNow
15	11 (2.24%)	Remedy
16	10 (2.03%)	Avaya
16	10 (2.03%)	Ericsson
16	10 (2.03%)	Fortinet