Wireless Contracts in Manchester

Wireless
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 75 60 99
Rank change year-on-year -15 +39 +26
Contract jobs citing Wireless 4 36 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 2.37% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 17.56% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 29 14
10th Percentile - - £304
25th Percentile £463 £313 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £396 £400
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -1.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £433 £472
90th Percentile £618 £452 £525
North West median daily rate £400 £396 £400
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 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%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Manchester

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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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DWDM
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Red Team
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (25.00%) OSCE
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Aruba
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) HP