WLAN Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing WLAN 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.51% 1.70% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.81% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
North West median daily rate £600 £325 -
% change year-on-year +84.62% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 27 24 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 10.19% 13.64% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 3
10th Percentile £185 - -
25th Percentile £223 £153 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £350 £200
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% +75.00% -52.94%
75th Percentile £522 £500 £323
90th Percentile £626 £538 £396
North West median daily rate £489 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +8.67% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile - £20.00 £32.14
25th Percentile £41.94 £21.12 £40.97
Median hourly rate £74.26 £24.59 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +202.05% -46.41% -11.99%
75th Percentile - £25.47 -
90th Percentile - £25.90 -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.59 £26.75
% change year-on-year +70.59% -8.09% -14.40%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Lancashire

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing WLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing WLAN

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing WLAN

WLAN
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Blackpool - 4 £575 - 2
WLAN
North West

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) OCI
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Aruba
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) F5