Wireless Contracts in London

Wireless
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 237 321
Rank change year-on-year -31 +84 +67
Contract jobs citing Wireless 85 157 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.88% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.46% 9.13% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 89 119
10th Percentile £218 £150 £183
25th Percentile £381 £250 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £586
90th Percentile £590 £863 £756
England median daily rate £468 £413 £423
% change year-on-year +13.33% -2.37% +10.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 2
10th Percentile - £14.40 £27.66
25th Percentile £24.66 - £40.76
Median hourly rate £38.33 £18.93 £65.72
Median % change year-on-year +102.48% -71.19% +94.71%
75th Percentile £58.94 £21.50 £93.80
90th Percentile £65.00 £22.72 £108.77
England median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Wireless 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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in London

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in London.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in London

Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in London.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in London

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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 Wireless within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West London +20 11 £400 +60.00% 8
Central London -8 10 £500 +37.93% 6
East London - 4 £480 -
South London - 2 £600 -
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
2 1 (1.18%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.71%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.53%) AutoCAD
4 2 (2.35%) Revit
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.71%) Azure
2 13 (15.29%) AWS
3 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (3.53%) GCP
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.35%) Datadog
5 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.18%) Akamai
6 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.18%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.18%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.18%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (57.65%) Firewall
2 36 (42.35%) WAN
3 35 (41.18%) Network Security
4 29 (34.12%) LAN
5 24 (28.24%) VPN
6 22 (25.88%) DNS
7 19 (22.35%) SD-WAN
7 19 (22.35%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (21.18%) DHCP
9 17 (20.00%) BGP
10 16 (18.82%) OSPF
11 15 (17.65%) WLAN
12 14 (16.47%) VLAN
13 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
14 12 (14.12%) Internet
14 12 (14.12%) IPsec
15 11 (12.94%) SSL
16 9 (10.59%) Cisco Wireless
17 8 (9.41%) Cisco Nexus
17 8 (9.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) InfluxDB
1 2 (2.35%) Looker
2 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.53%) GitLab
2 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 13 (15.29%) Finance
4 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.88%) Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Legal
7 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Electronics
8 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Advertising
9 1 (1.18%) Aviation
9 1 (1.18%) Billing
9 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Network Engineer
2 14 (16.47%) Senior
3 9 (10.59%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Consultant
5 5 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Design Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Network Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (3.53%) Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Architect
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Firewall Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Support Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.18%) JSON
3 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.94%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.88%) PKI
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.71%) IoT
3 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.53%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.35%) CCTV
5 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.35%) NHS
5 2 (2.35%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.18%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.18%) iPad
6 1 (1.18%) iPhone
6 1 (1.18%) SCADA
6 1 (1.18%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Mac OS
3 6 (7.06%) Android
4 4 (4.71%) Linux
4 4 (4.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.18%) VMS
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (15.29%) Network Design
3 12 (14.12%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (10.59%) Agile
5 8 (9.41%) High Availability
5 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (9.41%) Migration
6 7 (8.24%) Project Management
7 6 (7.06%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (7.06%) Break/Fix
7 6 (7.06%) Change Management
7 6 (7.06%) Computer Science
7 6 (7.06%) Customer Service
7 6 (7.06%) ITIL
7 6 (7.06%) Service Management
8 5 (5.88%) Business Strategy
8 5 (5.88%) Incident Management
8 5 (5.88%) Load Balancing
8 5 (5.88%) Observability
8 5 (5.88%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.94%) Python
2 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.35%) C
3 2 (2.35%) C++
3 2 (2.35%) Go
3 2 (2.35%) Java
3 2 (2.35%) Perl
3 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (22.35%) CCNP
3 16 (18.82%) Degree
4 13 (15.29%) CCNA
5 12 (14.12%) Security Cleared
6 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
7 8 (9.41%) CCIE
8 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.88%) CCSA
10 3 (3.53%) CISSP
11 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.35%) CWNA
11 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.35%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.18%) CASP
12 1 (1.18%) CCIE Security
12 1 (1.18%) CCSE
12 1 (1.18%) GCIA
12 1 (1.18%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) DICOM
2 2 (2.35%) HL7
2 2 (2.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.71%) Firmware
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Ansible
2 5 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) CA Spectrum
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) OPNET
4 2 (2.35%) SCCM
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.18%) Netcool
5 1 (1.18%) OfficeScan
5 1 (1.18%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (56.47%) Cisco
2 22 (25.88%) Palo Alto
3 19 (22.35%) CheckPoint
4 18 (21.18%) F5
5 17 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 17 (20.00%) Meraki
6 15 (17.65%) Juniper
7 13 (15.29%) Aruba
8 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
9 9 (10.59%) SolarWinds
10 8 (9.41%) Apple
10 8 (9.41%) HP
10 8 (9.41%) Infoblox
11 6 (7.06%) Dell
12 5 (5.88%) Arista
12 5 (5.88%) Ericsson
12 5 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
12 5 (5.88%) Ruckus Wireless
12 5 (5.88%) Splunk
13 4 (4.71%) Ekahau