Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in London

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 267 320
Rank change year-on-year -64 +53 +43
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 82 81 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.67% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.82% 6.40% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 48
10th Percentile £182 £211 £139
25th Percentile £336 £360 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.15% +5.10%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £529
90th Percentile £570 £610 £743
England median daily rate £430 £425 £363
% change year-on-year +1.09% +17.24% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £22.88 £32.19 -
25th Percentile £23.88 £37.87 -
Median hourly rate £25.55 £47.96 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -46.73% +101.49% +39.47%
75th Percentile £27.21 £58.67 £47.84
90th Percentile £28.21 £64.72 £62.26
England median hourly rate £22.81 £15.14 £16.50
% change year-on-year +50.66% -8.24% -10.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,410 1,265 1,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.74% 10.45% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 808 1,122
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £411 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £708 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 51
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -35.10% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £33.15 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £91.50 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +128.57%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in London

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in London over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in London

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London -19 15 £475 +15.15% 3
South London -16 4 £438 -16.67% 2
West London -28 2 £375 -14.29% 4
Wi-Fi
England

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (26.83%) Azure
3 10 (12.20%) PaaS
3 10 (12.20%) SaaS
4 9 (10.98%) AWS
5 6 (7.32%) Datadog
5 6 (7.32%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.32%) IaaS
6 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.66%) Route 53
9 2 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.44%) GCP
10 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.22%) Google Docs
10 1 (1.22%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (42.68%) WAN
2 31 (37.80%) LAN
3 29 (35.37%) Firewall
4 22 (26.83%) VPN
4 22 (26.83%) Wireless
5 11 (13.41%) DNS
6 10 (12.20%) BGP
6 10 (12.20%) DHCP
6 10 (12.20%) SD-WAN
7 9 (10.98%) VLAN
8 8 (9.76%) Network Security
8 8 (9.76%) OSPF
9 6 (7.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (7.32%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (7.32%) SAN
9 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
10 4 (4.88%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (4.88%) PSTN
10 4 (4.88%) Unified Communications
11 3 (3.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Chocolatey
2 5 (6.10%) JIRA
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Military
2 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Banking
4 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Retail
4 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.66%) Legal
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.44%) Law
6 2 (2.44%) Local Government
6 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Finance
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Network Engineer
2 13 (15.85%) IT Support
3 11 (13.41%) IT Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Architect
4 10 (12.20%) Network Architect
5 9 (10.98%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Lead
7 7 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Analyst
8 6 (7.32%) IT Support Technician
8 6 (7.32%) IT Technician
8 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Senior
8 6 (7.32%) Support Technician
9 4 (4.88%) Senior IT Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Lead Network Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Network Analyst
10 3 (3.66%) Wireless Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) 802.1X
2 6 (7.32%) X-Windows
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (3.66%) VML
5 1 (1.22%) JSON
5 1 (1.22%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) IoT
2 7 (8.54%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.32%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.10%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.22%) Blog
7 1 (1.22%) iPhone
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.22%) PropTech
7 1 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.49%) Windows
2 7 (8.54%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.32%) Mac OS X
4 5 (6.10%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.66%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.22%) Android
6 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.51%) Migration
2 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (13.41%) ITIL
5 9 (10.98%) ITSM
5 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (9.76%) Network Design
7 7 (8.54%) Data Protection
8 6 (7.32%) Agile
8 6 (7.32%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (7.32%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.32%) Incident Management
8 6 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (7.32%) Security Patching
9 5 (6.10%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (4.88%) High Availability
10 4 (4.88%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.88%) Network Architecture
10 4 (4.88%) User Experience
10 4 (4.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
1 5 (6.10%) Python
2 3 (3.66%) SQL
3 1 (1.22%) Bash
3 1 (1.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.54%) CCNP
5 5 (6.10%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.10%) CCNA
6 4 (4.88%) CCIE
6 4 (4.88%) PMP
7 3 (3.66%) Degree
7 3 (3.66%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.44%) Project+ Certification
9 1 (1.22%) ACSP
9 1 (1.22%) ACTC
9 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.22%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.22%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) SLA
3 3 (3.66%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (26.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.76%) SCCM
3 5 (6.10%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (4.88%) Ansible
4 4 (4.88%) Terraform
5 2 (2.44%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (36.59%) Cisco
2 23 (28.05%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.29%) Aruba
4 10 (12.20%) Meraki
4 10 (12.20%) Palo Alto
5 9 (10.98%) Fortinet
6 7 (8.54%) CheckPoint
6 7 (8.54%) VMware
7 6 (7.32%) AppDynamics
7 6 (7.32%) Dynatrace
7 6 (7.32%) Tenable
8 5 (6.10%) Infoblox
8 5 (6.10%) Juniper
9 3 (3.66%) Arista
9 3 (3.66%) Ekahau
9 3 (3.66%) F5
9 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.66%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.44%) Citrix
11 1 (1.22%) Adobe