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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 485 459
Rank change year-on-year -60 -26 +2
Contract jobs citing WLAN 86 43 69
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 1.31% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 18 37
10th Percentile £370 £303 £343
25th Percentile £425 £329 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £407 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -26.09% +13.17%
75th Percentile £519 £447 £650
90th Percentile £588 £527 £695
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £519
% change year-on-year +11.76% -18.07% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.17% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £40.19 -
90th Percentile - £59.60 -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +94.17% -20.00% +11.21%

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 4,348 3,282 3,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.75% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 2,076 2,243
10th Percentile £258 £224 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 169 173
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -34.61% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £92.51 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -22.94% -16.67% -9.72%

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 1 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WLAN in England over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for WLAN in England

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 1 October 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
North of England -49 32 £500 +53.85% 11
Yorkshire - 20 £463 - 5
Midlands -44 13 £288 +43.75% 14
London -89 13 £488 +14.71% 20
East of England -19 12 £500 +14.94% 5
North West -44 12 £575 +76.92% 4
West Midlands -34 11 £452 - 9
South East -50 11 £475 +39.71% 17
North East - 6 - - 3
East Midlands -14 2 £200 - 5
South West -36 1 £400 - 7
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 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.91%) Azure
2 17 (19.77%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) OCI
3 13 (15.12%) SaaS
4 11 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.65%) GCP
6 3 (3.49%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 68 (79.07%) LAN
2 54 (62.79%) WAN
3 47 (54.65%) Firewall
4 44 (51.16%) Wireless
5 43 (50.00%) SD-WAN
6 37 (43.02%) BGP
7 34 (39.53%) OSPF
8 32 (37.21%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (29.07%) VLAN
10 23 (26.74%) Network Security
11 19 (22.09%) VPN
12 16 (18.60%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (17.44%) DHCP
13 15 (17.44%) DNS
14 13 (15.12%) BIG-IP
14 13 (15.12%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (15.12%) Cisco Wireless
14 13 (15.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 13 (15.12%) VXLAN
15 12 (13.95%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) GitLab
2 2 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Police
4 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.16%) Finance
5 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.16%) Legal
5 1 (1.16%) Military
5 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (60.47%) Network Engineer
2 22 (25.58%) Senior
3 12 (13.95%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Architect
8 6 (6.98%) Network Architect
9 5 (5.81%) IT Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) IT Support
9 5 (5.81%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Wireless Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Wireless Network Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 2 (2.33%) Implementation Engineer
12 2 (2.33%) Network Analyst
12 2 (2.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) Terraform
2 12 (13.95%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (36.05%) Data Centre
2 16 (18.60%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (13.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.98%) PKI
6 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.65%) Operational Technology
7 4 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (2.33%) CMDB
8 2 (2.33%) SCADA
8 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.16%) Life Science
9 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Windows
2 8 (9.30%) Linux
3 6 (6.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.58%) High Availability
2 18 (20.93%) Network Design
3 17 (19.77%) Zero Trust
4 16 (18.60%) Load Balancing
5 15 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (16.28%) DevOps
6 14 (16.28%) Network Management
7 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (15.12%) Network Architecture
8 12 (13.95%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (9.30%) ITIL
11 7 (8.14%) Project Delivery
11 7 (8.14%) Runbook
11 7 (8.14%) Validation
12 6 (6.98%) Analytics
12 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (5.81%) Migration
13 5 (5.81%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.44%) Python
2 1 (1.16%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (33.72%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (29.07%) CCNP
3 23 (26.74%) Security Cleared
4 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
5 9 (10.47%) CCNA
6 7 (8.14%) CCIE
7 4 (4.65%) CWNA
7 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.49%) CCIE Wireless
8 3 (3.49%) CWDP
8 3 (3.49%) CWNE
8 3 (3.49%) CWSP
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (1.16%) Degree
9 1 (1.16%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.65%) vSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) Ansible
2 8 (9.30%) Nagios
3 7 (8.14%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.49%) Grafana
4 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.16%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.16%) Nessus
6 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (63.95%) Cisco
2 31 (36.05%) Aruba
3 27 (31.40%) Palo Alto
4 14 (16.28%) Arista
5 13 (15.12%) F5
5 13 (15.12%) Fortinet
5 13 (15.12%) Juniper
6 10 (11.63%) Meraki
7 9 (10.47%) CheckPoint
8 8 (9.30%) SolarWinds
8 8 (9.30%) VMware
9 6 (6.98%) Ekahau
9 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
10 5 (5.81%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
11 3 (3.49%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (3.49%) NetScout
12 2 (2.33%) SevOne
13 1 (1.16%) Rockwell
13 1 (1.16%) Zscaler