WLAN Contracts in London

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WLAN 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 334 345 440
Rank change year-on-year +11 +95 +120
Contract jobs citing WLAN 19 46 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 2.68% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 27
10th Percentile £340 £229 £408
25th Percentile £389 £414 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £646
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -5.19% +36.00%
75th Percentile £513 £875 £826
90th Percentile £569 £900 £830
England median daily rate £419 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -30.21% +26.32% +8.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WLAN in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WLAN 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 WLAN 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 +16 7 £413 +106.25%
Central London 0 5 £419 -14.10% 2
WLAN
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) Wireless
2 14 (73.68%) LAN
3 13 (68.42%) WAN
4 12 (63.16%) Firewall
5 9 (47.37%) BGP
5 9 (47.37%) OSPF
5 9 (47.37%) SD-WAN
6 6 (31.58%) Cisco Wireless
6 6 (31.58%) Network Security
6 6 (31.58%) VLAN
6 6 (31.58%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (26.32%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (26.32%) DHCP
7 5 (26.32%) DNS
7 5 (26.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (26.32%) SSL
7 5 (26.32%) VPN
8 4 (21.05%) DMVPN
8 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
9 3 (15.79%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Aviation
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Network Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Network Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Design Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Security Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Cabling Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) CCTV
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (26.32%) Network Design
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Observability
4 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
4 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Network Management
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
6 1 (5.26%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.26%) Inventory Management
6 1 (5.26%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.26%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.26%) Use Case
6 1 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) CCNP
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCSA
3 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) JNCIA
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
1 4 (21.05%) CA Spectrum
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco LMS
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (5.26%) Netcool
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 9 (47.37%) F5
3 7 (36.84%) Juniper
3 7 (36.84%) Meraki
4 6 (31.58%) CheckPoint
4 6 (31.58%) Fortinet
4 6 (31.58%) SolarWinds
5 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
6 3 (15.79%) Infoblox
7 2 (10.53%) Aruba
8 1 (5.26%) Ekahau
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
8 1 (5.26%) Riverbed