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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 441 456
Rank change year-on-year -68 +15 +88
Contract jobs citing WLAN 73 40 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 1.25% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 26 50
10th Percentile £190 - £341
25th Percentile £306 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -30.21% +26.32%
75th Percentile £520 £488 £859
90th Percentile £618 £569 £889
UK median daily rate £450 £413 £531
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.35% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.92
Median hourly rate - - £24.87
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £24.87
% change year-on-year - - -24.64%

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 3,850 3,197 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 13.10% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,412 1,981 2,966
10th Percentile £250 £220 £206
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 £495
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 125 395
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.26 £16.93
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £36.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.85% -8.57% +112.54%

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 6 May 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 6 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
Midlands -51 20 £200 -37.50% 8
South East -38 14 £440 -7.37% 12
West Midlands - 14 £450 - 7
North of England -57 13 £575 +76.92% 12
London -55 12 £515 +21.18% 12
East of England -32 8 £200 -50.00% 8
North West -43 7 £600 +84.62% 4
East Midlands -24 6 £200 -37.50% 1
Yorkshire -54 5 £450 - 6
North East - 3 - - 2
South West -35 2 £356 -44.12% 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 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) Azure
2 15 (20.55%) AWS
3 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.59%) OCI
4 7 (9.59%) SaaS
5 2 (2.74%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.37%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 62 (84.93%) LAN
2 50 (68.49%) WAN
3 35 (47.95%) SD-WAN
4 31 (42.47%) Wireless
5 28 (38.36%) Firewall
6 22 (30.14%) BGP
6 22 (30.14%) OSPF
6 22 (30.14%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (20.55%) Network Security
8 14 (19.18%) VLAN
9 13 (17.81%) VPN
10 10 (13.70%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (10.96%) BIG-IP
11 8 (10.96%) Internet
12 7 (9.59%) 5G
12 7 (9.59%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (9.59%) DNS
12 7 (9.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 7 (9.59%) VXLAN
13 6 (8.22%) Junos
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) GitLab
General
1 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
1 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.11%) Retail
4 2 (2.74%) Local Government
5 1 (1.37%) Billing
5 1 (1.37%) Finance
5 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Network Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Lead
5 6 (8.22%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) IT Support
5 6 (8.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Network Architect
5 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Wireless Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) WAN Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Network Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.37%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.59%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.22%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.85%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.37%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.37%) iSeries
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
7 1 (1.37%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) High Availability
2 12 (16.44%) Network Architecture
3 10 (13.70%) Zero Trust
4 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (12.33%) Load Balancing
4 9 (12.33%) Network Design
5 8 (10.96%) ITSM
5 8 (10.96%) Network Management
6 6 (8.22%) Analytics
6 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (8.22%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (8.22%) Customer Service
6 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (8.22%) ITIL
6 6 (8.22%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (8.22%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (8.22%) User Experience
7 5 (6.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (6.85%) Incident Management
7 5 (6.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) Python
2 1 (1.37%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (35.62%) Security Cleared
3 25 (34.25%) CCNP
4 23 (31.51%) SC Cleared
5 17 (23.29%) CCIE
6 5 (6.85%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (5.48%) CWNA
8 3 (4.11%) CCIE Wireless
8 3 (4.11%) CCNA
8 3 (4.11%) CWDP
8 3 (4.11%) CWNE
8 3 (4.11%) CWSP
9 2 (2.74%) Degree
9 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.37%) CCSE
10 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Firmware
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Ansible
2 8 (10.96%) Terraform
3 6 (8.22%) Nagios
4 3 (4.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (57.53%) Cisco
2 24 (32.88%) Aruba
3 16 (21.92%) Palo Alto
4 14 (19.18%) Juniper
5 9 (12.33%) Ekahau
6 8 (10.96%) F5
6 8 (10.96%) Meraki
7 7 (9.59%) Fortinet
7 7 (9.59%) SolarWinds
8 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
9 5 (6.85%) Arista
10 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
11 2 (2.74%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.74%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (1.37%) HP
12 1 (1.37%) Huawei
12 1 (1.37%) Mitel
12 1 (1.37%) NetScout
12 1 (1.37%) Rockwell
12 1 (1.37%) VMware