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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 2 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 1.66% 1.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 12.42% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 21
10th Percentile £418 - £398
25th Percentile £425 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +7.95%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £494
90th Percentile £483 £581 £554
North West median daily rate £325 £413 £486
% change year-on-year -21.21% -15.12% +13.68%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 161 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.84% 13.35% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 127 146
10th Percentile £219 £303 £313
25th Percentile £361 £384 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +12.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £533 £775 £550
90th Percentile £639 £850 £647
North West median daily rate £436 £514 £475
% change year-on-year -15.09% +8.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £37.25 £15.72
25th Percentile - £40.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £20.00 £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +187.88% -64.54%
75th Percentile - £76.38 £17.95
90th Percentile - £92.95 £22.28
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year +36.94% +191.13% -47.57%

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

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wireless

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wireless

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DWDM
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper