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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 442 449
Rank change year-on-year -74 +7 +105
Contract jobs citing WLAN 65 40 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.72% 1.24% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 52
10th Percentile £190 - £347
25th Percentile £303 £325 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -27.66% +30.56%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £853
90th Percentile £568 £569 £886
UK median daily rate £450 £420 £513
% change year-on-year +7.14% -18.05% +1.99%
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 3,772 3,222 5,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.55% 13.16% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 2,017 3,067
10th Percentile £231 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.88% -6.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +2.56% - -5.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 123 398
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% -8.39% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +110.53%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -44 24 £325 +1.56% 2
West Midlands - 18 £500 - 2
South East -36 13 £440 -7.37% 8
London -57 10 £540 +23.43% 11
East of England -29 8 £200 -50.00% 2
East Midlands -26 6 £200 -37.50%
North of England -78 6 £450 +38.46% 9
Yorkshire -55 4 £450 +7.14% 1
South West -26 2 £356 -44.12% 2
North West -47 2 £537 +65.08% 5
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 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.77%) GCP
5 4 (6.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (96.92%) LAN
2 45 (69.23%) WAN
3 31 (47.69%) SD-WAN
4 29 (44.62%) Wireless
5 25 (38.46%) Firewall
6 20 (30.77%) BGP
6 20 (30.77%) OSPF
7 19 (29.23%) VPN
8 16 (24.62%) VLAN
9 15 (23.08%) Network Security
10 14 (21.54%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (16.92%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (16.92%) DNS
12 10 (15.38%) DHCP
13 8 (12.31%) Internet
13 8 (12.31%) MPLS
14 7 (10.77%) 5G
14 7 (10.77%) Cisco Wireless
15 6 (9.23%) Junos
15 6 (9.23%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
General
1 16 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Local Government
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Billing
7 1 (1.54%) Finance
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Network Engineer
2 14 (21.54%) Architect
3 13 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Lead
5 6 (9.23%) IT Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) IT Support
5 6 (9.23%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Support Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Wireless Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Administrator
7 4 (6.15%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Network Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.54%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.23%) Virtual Team
4 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.54%) iSeries
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 11 (16.92%) Network Management
3 9 (13.85%) ITIL
3 9 (13.85%) Network Design
4 8 (12.31%) High Availability
4 8 (12.31%) ITSM
4 8 (12.31%) Load Balancing
4 8 (12.31%) Zero Trust
5 7 (10.77%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (10.77%) Incident Response
5 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
5 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.23%) Business Strategy
6 6 (9.23%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.23%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (9.23%) User Experience
7 5 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (1.54%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (49.23%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (44.62%) CCNP
3 23 (35.38%) CCIE
3 23 (35.38%) Security Cleared
4 20 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.15%) CCSP
6 4 (6.15%) CISSP
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.62%) CCIE Security
7 3 (4.62%) CCIE Wireless
7 3 (4.62%) CCNA
7 3 (4.62%) CWDP
7 3 (4.62%) CWNA
7 3 (4.62%) CWNE
7 3 (4.62%) CWSP
8 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) GDPR
2 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.69%) NIST
2 5 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.54%) Firmware
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Ansible
2 7 (10.77%) Terraform
3 6 (9.23%) Nagios
4 3 (4.62%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (66.15%) Cisco
2 16 (24.62%) Juniper
3 14 (21.54%) Palo Alto
4 13 (20.00%) Aruba
5 11 (16.92%) SolarWinds
6 10 (15.38%) Fortinet
6 10 (15.38%) Meraki
7 9 (13.85%) Ekahau
8 7 (10.77%) F5
9 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
10 5 (7.69%) VMware
11 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
12 2 (3.08%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (3.08%) Forcepoint
13 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
13 1 (1.54%) HP
13 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.54%) Mitel
13 1 (1.54%) NetScout