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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 375 418
Rank change year-on-year +44 +43 +127
Contract jobs citing WLAN 19 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.75% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 30
10th Percentile £335 £200 £284
25th Percentile £388 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £526
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.49% +7.95%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £819
90th Percentile £560 £863 £830
England median daily rate £425 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +5.56%

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 1,293 1,656 2,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.27% 9.43% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 1,102 1,822
10th Percentile £263 £225 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £669
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 50 50
10th Percentile £18.95 £14.46 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.40 £22.66
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.65 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -34.79% +31.89%
75th Percentile £51.00 £41.25 £68.81
90th Percentile £62.85 £60.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +131.58% -22.00%

WLAN
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 24 June 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 24 June 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 8 £425 +112.50% 5
Central London +3 4 £425 -13.92% 6
WLAN
England

WLAN
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 13 (68.42%) LAN
2 13 (68.42%) WAN
3 12 (63.16%) Firewall
4 10 (52.63%) BGP
4 10 (52.63%) OSPF
4 10 (52.63%) SD-WAN
5 6 (31.58%) Network Security
5 6 (31.58%) VLAN
5 6 (31.58%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (26.32%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (26.32%) Cisco Wireless
6 5 (26.32%) DHCP
6 5 (26.32%) DNS
6 5 (26.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (26.32%) SSL
6 5 (26.32%) VPN
7 4 (21.05%) DMVPN
7 4 (21.05%) HSRP
7 4 (21.05%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) 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 10 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Design Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Network Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Network Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Network Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Design Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Security Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) CCTV
1 3 (15.79%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (26.32%) Network Design
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Observability
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Service Management
6 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.26%) Migration
6 1 (5.26%) Network Management
6 1 (5.26%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.26%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CCNP
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCSA
3 3 (15.79%) CCNA
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) JNCIA
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) CA Spectrum
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (5.26%) Netcool
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 8 (42.11%) F5
2 8 (42.11%) Juniper
3 7 (36.84%) Meraki
4 6 (31.58%) Fortinet
4 6 (31.58%) SolarWinds
5 5 (26.32%) CheckPoint
5 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
6 3 (15.79%) Aruba
7 2 (10.53%) Infoblox
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
8 1 (5.26%) Riverbed