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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 264 318
Rank change year-on-year -68 +54 +47
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 84 83 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.68% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.83% 6.60% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 52 44
10th Percentile £153 £213 £138
25th Percentile £304 £351 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £398
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +19.50% +13.57%
75th Percentile £488 £582 £510
90th Percentile £565 £668 £743
England median daily rate £430 £425 £398
% change year-on-year +1.09% +6.92% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
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 £35.82
90th Percentile £28.21 £64.72 £57.45
England median hourly rate £22.81 £15.14 £16.50
% change year-on-year +50.66% -8.24% -12.00%

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 1,442 1,257 1,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.88% 10.34% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 809 1,123
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £709 £716 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +135.29%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -18 14 £500 +8.11% 5
South London -14 3 £450 -14.29% 5
West London -24 3 £375 -14.29% 3
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (26.19%) Azure
3 11 (13.10%) SaaS
4 10 (11.90%) AWS
4 10 (11.90%) PaaS
5 6 (7.14%) Datadog
5 6 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.14%) IaaS
6 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.76%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.76%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.57%) Route 53
9 2 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.38%) GCP
10 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.19%) Google Docs
10 1 (1.19%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 36 (42.86%) WAN
2 33 (39.29%) LAN
3 30 (35.71%) Firewall
4 24 (28.57%) Wireless
5 22 (26.19%) VPN
6 11 (13.10%) DNS
7 10 (11.90%) BGP
7 10 (11.90%) DHCP
7 10 (11.90%) SD-WAN
8 9 (10.71%) VLAN
9 8 (9.52%) TCP/IP
10 7 (8.33%) Network Security
10 7 (8.33%) OSPF
11 6 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (7.14%) SAN
12 5 (5.95%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (4.76%) NGFW
13 4 (4.76%) PSTN
13 4 (4.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Chocolatey
2 5 (5.95%) JIRA
General
1 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Military
3 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.57%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Retail
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.38%) Law
7 2 (2.38%) Local Government
7 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Finance
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Network Engineer
2 14 (16.67%) IT Support
3 12 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Architect
4 10 (11.90%) Network Architect
4 10 (11.90%) Support Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Lead
6 8 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) IT Support Technician
8 6 (7.14%) IT Technician
8 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Senior
8 6 (7.14%) Support Technician
9 5 (5.95%) Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Lead Network Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior IT Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Implementation Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Network Implementation Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) 802.1X
2 6 (7.14%) X-Windows
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.38%) VML
5 1 (1.19%) JSON
5 1 (1.19%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) IoT
2 7 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.95%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) Blog
7 1 (1.19%) iPhone
7 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.19%) PKI
7 1 (1.19%) PropTech
7 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.14%) Windows
2 7 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 7 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.14%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.19%) Android
5 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.24%) Migration
2 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (14.29%) ITIL
4 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (11.90%) ITSM
6 9 (10.71%) Network Design
7 7 (8.33%) Agile
7 7 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.33%) Data Protection
8 6 (7.14%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (7.14%) Incident Management
8 6 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (7.14%) Security Patching
9 5 (5.95%) Cloud Security
9 5 (5.95%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (5.95%) User Experience
10 4 (4.76%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.76%) Network Architecture
10 4 (4.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
1 5 (5.95%) Python
2 3 (3.57%) SQL
3 1 (1.19%) Bash
3 1 (1.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.33%) CCNP
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.95%) CCNA
6 4 (4.76%) PMP
7 3 (3.57%) CCIE
7 3 (3.57%) Degree
7 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.38%) Project+ Certification
9 1 (1.19%) ACSP
9 1 (1.19%) ACTC
9 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) QA
2 7 (8.33%) SLA
3 3 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.52%) SCCM
3 5 (5.95%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (4.76%) Ansible
4 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (4.76%) Terraform
5 2 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (34.52%) Cisco
2 25 (29.76%) Microsoft
3 14 (16.67%) Aruba
4 10 (11.90%) Palo Alto
5 9 (10.71%) Fortinet
5 9 (10.71%) Meraki
6 7 (8.33%) VMware
7 6 (7.14%) AppDynamics
7 6 (7.14%) CheckPoint
7 6 (7.14%) Dynatrace
7 6 (7.14%) Tenable
8 5 (5.95%) Juniper
9 4 (4.76%) Infoblox
9 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.57%) Arista
10 3 (3.57%) Ekahau
10 3 (3.57%) Okta
10 3 (3.57%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.38%) Citrix
11 2 (2.38%) F5