WLAN Contract Job Trends in England

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 428 467
Rank change year-on-year -76 +39 +60
Contract jobs citing WLAN 85 41 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 1.31% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 22 42
10th Percentile £190 - £378
25th Percentile £308 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £515 £472 £775
90th Percentile £588 £564 £863
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £494
% change year-on-year +12.50% -18.99% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.00 £23.92
Median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +20.63% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £37.94 £25.83
90th Percentile - £50.43 -
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -36.67% +20.63% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

WLAN 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 3,996 3,119 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.58% 13.03% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,471 1,956 2,897
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 121 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% +2.50% +118.16%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in England

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WLAN

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in England

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WLAN

WLAN
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 WLAN within the England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Midlands -33 24 £200 -37.50% 2
North of England -60 24 £575 +76.92% 9
West Midlands -42 16 £450 - 2
South East -48 14 £440 - 11
North West -30 13 £575 +76.92% 4
Yorkshire - 12 £450 - 2
London -92 10 £500 +17.65% 8
East Midlands -20 8 £200 -37.50%
East of England -29 8 £200 -51.52% 2
North East - 5 - - 3
South West -28 2 £356 -52.50% 2
WLAN
UK

WLAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.24%) Azure
2 18 (21.18%) AWS
3 12 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (14.12%) OCI
3 12 (14.12%) SaaS
4 1 (1.18%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 68 (80.00%) LAN
2 57 (67.06%) WAN
3 41 (48.24%) SD-WAN
4 35 (41.18%) Wireless
5 34 (40.00%) Firewall
6 27 (31.76%) BGP
6 27 (31.76%) OSPF
6 27 (31.76%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (20.00%) VLAN
8 16 (18.82%) Network Security
9 13 (15.29%) BIG-IP
10 12 (14.12%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (14.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 12 (14.12%) VPN
10 12 (14.12%) VXLAN
11 10 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (10.59%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (9.41%) 5G
14 7 (8.24%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (8.24%) DNS
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) GitLab
2 8 (9.41%) JIRA
General
1 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Finance
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Billing
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Network Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) Senior
3 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) IT Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) IT Support
4 11 (12.94%) IT Support Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) Support Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Wireless Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Network Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Lead
9 5 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Data Centre Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Data Network Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.71%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (10.59%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.59%) Onboarding
3 9 (10.59%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (9.41%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.18%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.18%) iSeries
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) SCADA
6 1 (1.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.71%) High Availability
2 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (16.47%) Load Balancing
2 14 (16.47%) Network Architecture
3 13 (15.29%) Zero Trust
4 12 (14.12%) Network Design
5 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
5 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (11.76%) ITSM
6 10 (11.76%) Network Management
7 9 (10.59%) DevOps
7 9 (10.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (9.41%) Customer Service
9 7 (8.24%) Analytics
9 7 (8.24%) User Experience
10 6 (7.06%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (7.06%) ITIL
10 6 (7.06%) Network Segmentation
10 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) Python
2 1 (1.18%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (32.94%) Cisco Certification
1 28 (32.94%) Security Cleared
2 25 (29.41%) CCNP
3 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
4 16 (18.82%) CCIE
5 5 (5.88%) CWNA
5 5 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (4.71%) CCIE Wireless
6 4 (4.71%) CWDP
6 4 (4.71%) CWNE
6 4 (4.71%) CWSP
7 3 (3.53%) CCNA
8 2 (2.35%) Degree
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.18%) CCSE
9 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.18%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Firmware
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (15.29%) Ansible
2 11 (12.94%) Terraform
3 6 (7.06%) Nagios
4 5 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.18%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (54.12%) Cisco
2 31 (36.47%) Aruba
3 21 (24.71%) Palo Alto
4 14 (16.47%) Juniper
5 13 (15.29%) F5
6 10 (11.76%) Arista
6 10 (11.76%) Ekahau
7 9 (10.59%) Meraki
8 8 (9.41%) ServiceNow
9 7 (8.24%) Fortinet
9 7 (8.24%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
11 3 (3.53%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (2.35%) CheckPoint
13 1 (1.18%) HP
13 1 (1.18%) Huawei
13 1 (1.18%) Mitel
13 1 (1.18%) NetScout
13 1 (1.18%) Symantec
13 1 (1.18%) VMware