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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 69 58
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 5 2 36
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.37% 0.26% 2.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.09% 1.34% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £256 £526 £340
25th Percentile £358 £545 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £594 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.95% +21.79% +132.14%
75th Percentile £473 £645 £519
90th Percentile - £667 £544
South East median daily rate £260 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -42.22% - +7.46%

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 162 149 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.05% 19.03% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 95 100
10th Percentile £445 £350 £200
25th Percentile - £440 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £457
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +15.01% -13.87%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £553
90th Percentile £700 £675 £637
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £461
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.42% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 42
10th Percentile £47.99 £35.00 £23.23
25th Percentile £52.69 £37.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.80 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +2.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60.90 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.16 £66.88 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £56.40 £59.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.61% -1.46% +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 23 January 2026.

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 23 January 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
Farnborough - 3 £465 - 6
Basingstoke -14 1 £200 -66.32%
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%) Structured Cabling
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
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
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
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
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
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%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft