Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 74 100
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 3 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 1.03% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.80% 10.26% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £318 £170
25th Percentile £525 £370 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £290
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +55.17% -42.00%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £385
90th Percentile - £563 £485
North West median daily rate £525 £450 £588
% change year-on-year +16.67% -23.40% +30.56%

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 79 117 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.94% 10.00% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 75 147
10th Percentile £170 £323 £294
25th Percentile £257 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £584
90th Percentile £680 £690 £688
North West median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile - - £15.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £46.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +174.73% +4.38%
75th Percentile £20.00 £48.75 £39.59
90th Percentile - - £47.19
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.03 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.07% +171.05% -10.87%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) 802.11
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (33.33%) IBM XIV
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) VMware