Wireless Contract Job Trends in Essex

Wireless
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Wireless skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Wireless 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.57% 1.50% 3.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 6.45% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £301 - £262
25th Percentile £303 - £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -19.54%
75th Percentile £328 - £391
90th Percentile £334 - £434
East of England median daily rate £445 £413 £443
% change year-on-year +7.88% -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.76 -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £33.44
% change year-on-year -38.22% +45.22% +218.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

Wireless 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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 31 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 7.09% 23.31% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 32
10th Percentile £218 £213 £192
25th Percentile £231 £275 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £300 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -43.93% +82.13%
75th Percentile £363 £375 £600
90th Percentile £478 £430 £635
East of England median daily rate £520 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £18.91 £73.25
25th Percentile - £23.63 £74.38
Median hourly rate - £33.75 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -56.45% +260.47%
75th Percentile - £48.31 £79.38
90th Percentile - £63.28 £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Essex

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Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Wireless

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Wireless

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Audit Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle