Wireless Contracts in England

Wireless
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 268 215 228
Rank change year-on-year -53 +13 +86
Contract jobs citing Wireless 228 405 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.09% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.17% 8.08% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 240 400
10th Percentile £215 £168 £205
25th Percentile £325 £261 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £413 £423
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -2.37% +10.46%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £500
90th Percentile £600 £663 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 40 17
10th Percentile - £12.75 £18.36
25th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £22.26
Median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%
75th Percentile £62.19 £23.80 £80.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £81.00
UK 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
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in England

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in England

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in England

Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in England

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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 Wireless within the 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
London -31 85 £475 +18.75% 100
North of England +1 42 £400 -1.52% 77
East of England +39 39 £490 +16.67% 75
North West +5 33 £400 +1.01% 38
South East +1 33 £403 +7.33% 126
South West +29 18 £413 +8.55% 53
Yorkshire +4 8 £220 -63.64% 27
Midlands -6 7 £215 -49.41% 58
West Midlands -3 4 £205 -55.68% 27
East Midlands +3 3 £369 +34.09% 28
North East -3 1 £550 -8.33% 12
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.88%) CMS
2 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Confluence
3 1 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.07%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.32%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.88%) Revit
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.44%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.44%) Sketch
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.44%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.23%) Azure
2 21 (9.21%) AWS
3 16 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.95%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.19%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.32%) GCP
7 2 (0.88%) Akamai
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.88%) Datadog
7 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.88%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.88%) Serverless
7 2 (0.88%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.44%) IaaS
8 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.44%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (51.75%) Firewall
2 78 (34.21%) WAN
3 68 (29.82%) LAN
4 61 (26.75%) Network Security
5 57 (25.00%) VPN
6 39 (17.11%) Wi-Fi
7 33 (14.47%) SD-WAN
8 32 (14.04%) DNS
9 31 (13.60%) BGP
10 30 (13.16%) OSPF
11 28 (12.28%) Cisco Wireless
11 28 (12.28%) DHCP
11 28 (12.28%) Internet
12 24 (10.53%) WLAN
13 23 (10.09%) VLAN
14 22 (9.65%) TCP/IP
15 21 (9.21%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (9.21%) Cisco Nexus
16 20 (8.77%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (7.02%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) InfluxDB
1 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.88%) Looker
2 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.44%) Big Data
3 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.75%) GitLab
1 4 (1.75%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.75%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) KGDB
3 1 (0.44%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 25 (10.96%) Finance
4 17 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.39%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.07%) Banking
7 7 (3.07%) Electronics
7 7 (3.07%) Marketing
8 6 (2.63%) Legal
8 6 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Advertising
11 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Back Office
12 2 (0.88%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.88%) Retail
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (42.54%) Network Engineer
2 23 (10.09%) Senior
3 15 (6.58%) Support Engineer
4 14 (6.14%) Security Engineer
5 13 (5.70%) Network Security Engineer
5 13 (5.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (5.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 11 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.39%) Cisco Engineer
7 10 (4.39%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 10 (4.39%) Embedded Engineer
8 9 (3.95%) Developer
9 8 (3.51%) Architect
9 8 (3.51%) Consultant
9 8 (3.51%) Network Architect
10 7 (3.07%) Analyst
10 7 (3.07%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.07%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.07%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.07%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.02%) 802.1X
2 8 (3.51%) REST
3 3 (1.32%) RESTful
4 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.88%) Swagger
5 1 (0.44%) JSON
5 1 (0.44%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.44%) NumPy
5 1 (0.44%) Pandas
5 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.44%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.44%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.35%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.95%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (3.51%) CMDB
5 7 (3.07%) CUDA
5 7 (3.07%) FPGA
5 7 (3.07%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.63%) PKI
7 5 (2.19%) NHS
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.75%) IoT
8 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.32%) ASIC
9 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) IVR
9 3 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.32%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.28%) Windows
2 23 (10.09%) Linux
3 11 (4.82%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.95%) Android
5 8 (3.51%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.07%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (11.40%) Network Design
3 21 (9.21%) ITIL
4 18 (7.89%) Change Management
5 17 (7.46%) Customer Service
6 16 (7.02%) Agile
7 14 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (6.14%) Network Monitoring
8 13 (5.70%) Migration
9 12 (5.26%) Computer Science
9 12 (5.26%) High Availability
9 12 (5.26%) Network Management
9 12 (5.26%) Test Automation
10 11 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (4.82%) Load Balancing
11 10 (4.39%) Network Architecture
11 10 (4.39%) Project Management
11 10 (4.39%) Service Delivery
12 9 (3.95%) Problem Management
12 9 (3.95%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.28%) Python
2 9 (3.95%) C++
2 9 (3.95%) Java
3 8 (3.51%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.63%) SQL
5 5 (2.19%) C
6 4 (1.75%) C#
6 4 (1.75%) Go
7 3 (1.32%) Perl
7 3 (1.32%) Tcl
8 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (25.44%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (14.91%) CCNP
3 33 (14.47%) Degree
3 33 (14.47%) Security Cleared
4 30 (13.16%) CCNA
5 28 (12.28%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.58%) CCIE
7 13 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.63%) CCSA
8 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.19%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.75%) CISSP
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.88%) CCIE Wireless
12 2 (0.88%) HP APS
12 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) SLA
2 9 (3.95%) QA
3 5 (2.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.88%) DICOM
5 2 (0.88%) HL7
5 2 (0.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.07%) Docker
3 6 (2.63%) Firmware
3 6 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.88%) vSphere
7 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (4.39%) Ansible
2 9 (3.95%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.63%) Terraform
5 5 (2.19%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.19%) SmoothWall
6 4 (1.75%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (1.75%) SCCM
7 2 (0.88%) Grafana
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.88%) OPNET
8 1 (0.44%) CASB
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.44%) Netcool
8 1 (0.44%) OfficeScan
8 1 (0.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 113 (49.56%) Cisco
2 50 (21.93%) Palo Alto
3 32 (14.04%) Microsoft
4 30 (13.16%) Aruba
5 27 (11.84%) Juniper
5 27 (11.84%) Meraki
6 26 (11.40%) CheckPoint
6 26 (11.40%) F5
7 22 (9.65%) Fortinet
8 19 (8.33%) SolarWinds
9 16 (7.02%) Infoblox
10 13 (5.70%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (5.70%) HP
11 11 (4.82%) Apple
12 9 (3.95%) Ruckus Wireless
12 9 (3.95%) Zscaler
13 8 (3.51%) Arista
13 8 (3.51%) Ekahau
14 7 (3.07%) NVIDIA
15 6 (2.63%) AirMagnet