Wi-Fi Contracts in Manchester

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi 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 72 89 90
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 +32
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 7 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.46% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 3.41% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 21
10th Percentile £343 £182 £306
25th Percentile £394 £210 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £220 £500
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -56.00% +108.33%
75th Percentile £481 £313 £543
90th Percentile £488 £400 £550
North West median daily rate £413 £458 £470
% change year-on-year -9.84% -2.66% +60.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 205 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.58% 13.51% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 158 177
10th Percentile £193 £262 £313
25th Percentile £288 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%
75th Percentile £491 £750 £575
90th Percentile £582 £850 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -14.42% +16.65%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £102.40 £32.50
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Wigan - 1 £375 - 1
Wi-Fi
North West

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) DWDM
3 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Exchange Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Network Design
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Aruba
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Meraki