Wireless Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Wireless
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.32% 0.38% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.57% 2.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
South West median daily rate £513 £397 £523
% change year-on-year +29.01% -23.97% +22.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 50 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.00% 19.08% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 42 35
10th Percentile £205 £231 £326
25th Percentile £206 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% - +19.57%
75th Percentile £569 £623 £660
90th Percentile £616 £768 £756
South West median daily rate £500 £548 £535
% change year-on-year -8.76% +2.43% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
75th Percentile £12.69 - £19.13
90th Percentile - - £21.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Wireless job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Wireless

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Wireless

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cheltenham - 1 £400 - 1
Wireless
South West

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout