Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 83 67
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 5 3 30
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.48% 0.25% 2.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.66% 1.26% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £256 £526 £240
25th Percentile £358 £545 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £594 £335
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% +77.24% +59.52%
75th Percentile £473 £645 £544
90th Percentile - £667 -
South East median daily rate £260 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -45.26% +5.56% +24.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

Wi-Fi 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 188 238 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.16% 20.07% 25.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 122 121
10th Percentile £375 £400 £239
25th Percentile £500 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £681 £613
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £461
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.42% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 34
10th Percentile £44.60 £33.88 £15.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +22.91% +18.65%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £69.65
90th Percentile £65.80 £75.00 £75.60
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Hampshire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in Hampshire

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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
Farnborough - 2 £465 -
Basingstoke +2 1 £200 -66.32% 1
Portsmouth - 1 £388 -
Wi-Fi
South East

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) AirWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Aruba
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (40.00%) Meraki
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft