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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 251 328
Rank change year-on-year -18 +77 +74
Contract jobs citing Wireless 89 135 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.72% 0.77% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.80% 8.11% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 81 105
10th Percentile £219 £150 £174
25th Percentile £394 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £569 £533 £600
90th Percentile £588 £745 £806
England median daily rate £471 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +17.81% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 2
10th Percentile - £13.30 £27.66
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.24 £40.76
Median hourly rate £38.33 £21.00 £65.72
Median % change year-on-year +82.52% -68.04% +87.76%
75th Percentile £58.94 £21.50 £93.80
90th Percentile £65.00 £23.44 £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 1,309 1,665 2,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.55% 9.53% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,114 1,812
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £675
90th Percentile £724 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 51 56
10th Percentile £24.21 £14.48 £20.11
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.56 £22.72
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.89% -45.35% +27.41%
75th Percentile £50.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

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

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in London over the 6 months to 16 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 16 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 16 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 +21 11 £400 +60.00% 8
Central London -7 10 £500 +66.67% 13
East London - 4 £480 - 2
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 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) CMS
2 1 (1.12%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.37%) AutoCAD
4 2 (2.25%) Revit
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) Azure
2 13 (14.61%) AWS
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (3.37%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.25%) Datadog
5 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.12%) Akamai
6 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.12%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (58.43%) Firewall
2 36 (40.45%) WAN
3 34 (38.20%) Network Security
4 30 (33.71%) LAN
5 24 (26.97%) DNS
6 23 (25.84%) VPN
7 20 (22.47%) DHCP
7 20 (22.47%) SD-WAN
8 19 (21.35%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (17.98%) BGP
9 16 (17.98%) TCP/IP
9 16 (17.98%) WLAN
10 15 (16.85%) OSPF
10 15 (16.85%) VLAN
11 13 (14.61%) IPsec
12 11 (12.36%) Internet
12 11 (12.36%) SSL
13 10 (11.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (11.24%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (10.11%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.25%) InfluxDB
1 2 (2.25%) Looker
2 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) GitLab
1 3 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.25%) JIRA
General
1 30 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Telecoms
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.37%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Advertising
8 1 (1.12%) Aviation
8 1 (1.12%) Billing
8 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.12%) Local Government
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (43.82%) Network Engineer
2 15 (16.85%) Senior
3 9 (10.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (7.87%) Support Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Consultant
6 5 (5.62%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Design Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Network Consultant
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (3.37%) Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Network Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.46%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.62%) PKI
2 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.49%) IoT
3 4 (4.49%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.37%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) CCTV
5 2 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.12%) iPad
6 1 (1.12%) iPhone
6 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.12%) SCADA
6 1 (1.12%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Windows
2 7 (7.87%) Mac OS
3 6 (6.74%) Android
4 4 (4.49%) Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (15.73%) Network Monitoring
3 13 (14.61%) Network Design
4 9 (10.11%) Agile
4 9 (10.11%) High Availability
5 8 (8.99%) Migration
6 7 (7.87%) Computer Science
6 7 (7.87%) Customer Service
6 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (6.74%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (6.74%) Break/Fix
7 6 (6.74%) Business Continuity
7 6 (6.74%) Business Strategy
7 6 (6.74%) Change Management
7 6 (6.74%) Incident Management
7 6 (6.74%) ITIL
7 6 (6.74%) Process Improvement
7 6 (6.74%) Security Operations
7 6 (6.74%) Service Management
8 5 (5.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.36%) Python
2 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.25%) C
3 2 (2.25%) C++
3 2 (2.25%) Go
3 2 (2.25%) Java
3 2 (2.25%) Perl
3 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (35.96%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (24.72%) CCNP
3 15 (16.85%) Degree
4 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
5 12 (13.48%) CCNA
6 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
7 8 (8.99%) CCIE
8 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.62%) CCSA
10 3 (3.37%) CISSP
10 3 (3.37%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.25%) CWNA
11 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
12 1 (1.12%) CASP
12 1 (1.12%) CCIE Security
12 1 (1.12%) CCSE
12 1 (1.12%) GCIA
12 1 (1.12%) GCIH
12 1 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) SLA
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Firmware
3 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Ansible
2 6 (6.74%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.62%) Terraform
4 4 (4.49%) CA Spectrum
5 2 (2.25%) Grafana
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.25%) OPNET
5 2 (2.25%) SCCM
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.12%) Netcool
6 1 (1.12%) OfficeScan
6 1 (1.12%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (1.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (56.18%) Cisco
2 23 (25.84%) Palo Alto
3 21 (23.60%) CheckPoint
4 20 (22.47%) F5
5 18 (20.22%) Fortinet
5 18 (20.22%) Meraki
6 16 (17.98%) Juniper
7 14 (15.73%) Aruba
8 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
9 10 (11.24%) Infoblox
10 9 (10.11%) SolarWinds
11 8 (8.99%) Apple
11 8 (8.99%) HP
12 6 (6.74%) Dell
13 5 (5.62%) Arista
13 5 (5.62%) Ericsson
13 5 (5.62%) Ruckus Wireless
13 5 (5.62%) Splunk
14 4 (4.49%) Ekahau
15 3 (3.37%) Extreme Networks