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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 237 228
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +75
Contract jobs citing Wireless 232 371 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 1.02% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.32% 7.75% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 225 381
10th Percentile £219 £173 £200
25th Percentile £353 £256 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.81% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £533 £498
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £454 £406 £425
% change year-on-year +11.75% -4.41% +4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 19
10th Percentile - £12.75 £15.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £16.00 £19.22
Median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%
75th Percentile £58.94 £23.80 £80.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £59.90 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £19.97 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.52% -60.07% +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 3,168 4,788 5,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.17% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,877 3,859
10th Percentile £220 £210 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.68% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 390 424
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.06 £16.44 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £59.28
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -34.70%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -18 89 £475 +18.75% 146
North of England +1 41 £390 -6.33% 74
East of England +35 37 £490 +16.67% 65
South East +10 32 £450 +26.32% 141
North West -3 31 £390 -1.52% 42
South West +22 15 £397 -23.97% 41
Midlands -6 13 £300 +9.09% 48
West Midlands +3 10 £215 -49.41% 25
Yorkshire +11 9 £220 -63.64% 20
East Midlands 0 3 £369 +34.09% 17
North East -4 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 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.86%) CMS
2 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.59%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.29%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.86%) Revit
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.43%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.43%) Sketch
6 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.67%) Azure
2 24 (10.34%) AWS
3 19 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.88%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.59%) Google Workspace
6 5 (2.16%) GCP
7 3 (1.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.86%) Akamai
8 2 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.86%) Datadog
8 2 (0.86%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.86%) Serverless
8 2 (0.86%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
9 1 (0.43%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 120 (51.72%) Firewall
2 80 (34.48%) WAN
3 71 (30.60%) LAN
4 58 (25.00%) Network Security
5 53 (22.84%) VPN
6 39 (16.81%) Wi-Fi
7 36 (15.52%) SD-WAN
8 34 (14.66%) DNS
9 30 (12.93%) DHCP
10 28 (12.07%) BGP
10 28 (12.07%) Cisco Wireless
11 27 (11.64%) Internet
11 27 (11.64%) OSPF
12 25 (10.78%) Cisco Nexus
12 25 (10.78%) TCP/IP
12 25 (10.78%) WLAN
13 24 (10.34%) VLAN
14 20 (8.62%) Cisco ASA
14 20 (8.62%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (7.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.72%) InfluxDB
1 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.86%) Looker
2 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.43%) Big Data
3 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.72%) GitLab
1 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.72%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) KGDB
2 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
3 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.64%) Telecoms
3 24 (10.34%) Finance
4 19 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.60%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.45%) Legal
6 8 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.02%) Banking
7 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.16%) Electronics
10 4 (1.72%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Advertising
11 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Back Office
12 2 (0.86%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.86%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (41.38%) Network Engineer
2 24 (10.34%) Senior
3 16 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 14 (6.03%) Security Engineer
5 13 (5.60%) Network Security Engineer
5 13 (5.60%) Senior Network Engineer
6 11 (4.74%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (4.74%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (4.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Embedded Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (3.88%) Architect
8 9 (3.88%) Developer
8 9 (3.88%) Network Architect
9 8 (3.45%) Consultant
10 7 (3.02%) CUDA Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.90%) 802.1X
2 8 (3.45%) REST
3 3 (1.29%) RESTful
4 2 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.86%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.86%) Swagger
5 1 (0.43%) JSON
5 1 (0.43%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.43%) NumPy
5 1 (0.43%) Pandas
5 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.43%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.43%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.95%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.31%) Embedded Systems
2 10 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.02%) CMDB
3 7 (3.02%) CUDA
4 6 (2.59%) PKI
4 6 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (2.16%) FPGA
5 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.72%) IoT
6 4 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.29%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.29%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) IVR
7 3 (1.29%) NHS
7 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.79%) Windows
2 24 (10.34%) Linux
3 14 (6.03%) Windows 10
4 10 (4.31%) Mac OS
5 9 (3.88%) Android
6 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.02%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (11.64%) Network Design
3 23 (9.91%) ITIL
4 21 (9.05%) Customer Service
5 19 (8.19%) Change Management
6 18 (7.76%) Agile
6 18 (7.76%) Network Monitoring
7 15 (6.47%) Computer Science
8 14 (6.03%) Migration
9 13 (5.60%) High Availability
9 13 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (5.17%) Test Automation
11 11 (4.74%) Load Balancing
12 10 (4.31%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (4.31%) Incident Management
12 10 (4.31%) Network Management
12 10 (4.31%) Service Delivery
13 9 (3.88%) Network Architecture
13 9 (3.88%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (3.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.64%) Python
2 9 (3.88%) C++
2 9 (3.88%) Java
3 8 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.59%) SQL
5 5 (2.16%) C
6 4 (1.72%) C#
6 4 (1.72%) Go
7 3 (1.29%) Perl
8 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 60 (25.86%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (15.95%) CCNP
3 34 (14.66%) Degree
4 30 (12.93%) Security Cleared
5 27 (11.64%) CCNA
6 25 (10.78%) SC Cleared
7 16 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (6.47%) CCIE
9 6 (2.59%) CCSA
9 6 (2.59%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.72%) CISSP
10 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.29%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.86%) CCIE Wireless
12 2 (0.86%) CWNA
12 2 (0.86%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.74%) SLA
2 9 (3.88%) QA
3 6 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.86%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.02%) Docker
3 6 (2.59%) Firmware
3 6 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.86%) vSphere
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (5.17%) Ansible
2 10 (4.31%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.59%) SmoothWall
4 6 (2.59%) Terraform
5 4 (1.72%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (1.72%) SCCM
6 3 (1.29%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.86%) Grafana
7 2 (0.86%) Nagios
7 2 (0.86%) OPNET
8 1 (0.43%) CASB
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.43%) Netcool
8 1 (0.43%) OfficeScan
8 1 (0.43%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 117 (50.43%) Cisco
2 48 (20.69%) Palo Alto
3 35 (15.09%) Microsoft
4 31 (13.36%) Juniper
5 30 (12.93%) Aruba
6 28 (12.07%) F5
6 28 (12.07%) Meraki
7 27 (11.64%) CheckPoint
8 24 (10.34%) Fortinet
9 19 (8.19%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.90%) Infoblox
11 12 (5.17%) HP
12 11 (4.74%) Apple
12 11 (4.74%) Extreme Networks
13 10 (4.31%) Arista
14 9 (3.88%) Ruckus Wireless
14 9 (3.88%) Zscaler
15 8 (3.45%) Ekahau
16 7 (3.02%) NVIDIA
17 6 (2.59%) AirMagnet