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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 460 471
Rank change year-on-year -72 +11 +47
Contract jobs citing WLAN 87 50 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% 1.46% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 26 36
10th Percentile £190 - £360
25th Percentile £418 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -27.23% +13.17%
75th Percentile £520 £456 £656
90th Percentile £588 £528 £775
UK median daily rate £456 £400 £531
% change year-on-year +14.06% -24.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 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 £31.00 £25.83
90th Percentile - £46.35 -
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 4,255 3,436 4,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 12.64% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 2,121 2,827
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 160 381
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £25.11 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% +12.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.12% +25.00% +18.52%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -59 31 £500 +53.85% 8
Midlands -45 22 £200 - 1
Yorkshire - 17 £450 - 4
West Midlands -46 16 £450 -
North West -45 14 £575 +76.92% 4
London -78 13 £500 +19.40% 4
South East -53 8 £440 - 6
East of England -21 7 £200 -57.89% 4
East Midlands -6 6 £200 - 1
North East - 6 - -
South West -30 1 £400 -46.67% 3
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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.59%) Azure
2 18 (20.69%) AWS
3 13 (14.94%) OCI
3 13 (14.94%) SaaS
4 12 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.15%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 69 (79.31%) LAN
2 59 (67.82%) WAN
3 44 (50.57%) SD-WAN
4 41 (47.13%) Wireless
5 39 (44.83%) Firewall
6 33 (37.93%) Wi-Fi
7 30 (34.48%) BGP
8 29 (33.33%) OSPF
9 21 (24.14%) VLAN
10 16 (18.39%) VPN
11 15 (17.24%) Network Security
12 14 (16.09%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (14.94%) BIG-IP
13 13 (14.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 13 (14.94%) VXLAN
14 11 (12.64%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (11.49%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (11.49%) DNS
16 9 (10.34%) DHCP
17 8 (9.20%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) GitLab
2 6 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Git
General
1 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Police
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Finance
5 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
5 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.15%) Military
5 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Network Engineer
2 19 (21.84%) Senior
3 11 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) IT Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) IT Support
5 9 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Architect
6 8 (9.20%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 5 (5.75%) Wireless Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) WAN Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Consultant
11 2 (2.30%) Implementation Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.49%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (10.34%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.90%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.60%) PKI
7 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) High Availability
2 16 (18.39%) Network Architecture
3 15 (17.24%) Load Balancing
3 15 (17.24%) Zero Trust
4 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (16.09%) Network Design
5 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 11 (12.64%) Network Management
8 10 (11.49%) DevOps
8 10 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.20%) ITSM
11 7 (8.05%) Analytics
11 7 (8.05%) Customer Service
11 7 (8.05%) Runbook
12 6 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.90%) Network Segmentation
12 6 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.24%) Python
2 1 (1.15%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (32.18%) CCNP
3 25 (28.74%) Security Cleared
4 19 (21.84%) SC Cleared
5 16 (18.39%) CCIE
6 5 (5.75%) CWNA
7 4 (4.60%) CCIE Wireless
7 4 (4.60%) CWDP
7 4 (4.60%) CWNE
7 4 (4.60%) CWSP
8 2 (2.30%) CCNA
8 2 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.15%) Degree
9 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.15%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) Ansible
2 13 (14.94%) Terraform
3 7 (8.05%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.60%) Nagios
5 2 (2.30%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.15%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) Nessus
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (54.02%) Cisco
2 34 (39.08%) Aruba
3 24 (27.59%) Palo Alto
4 13 (14.94%) F5
4 13 (14.94%) Juniper
5 12 (13.79%) Arista
6 10 (11.49%) Ekahau
6 10 (11.49%) Fortinet
7 9 (10.34%) Meraki
8 7 (8.05%) ServiceNow
9 5 (5.75%) CheckPoint
9 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.60%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (2.30%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (2.30%) VMware
13 1 (1.15%) Google
13 1 (1.15%) Huawei
13 1 (1.15%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.15%) NetScout