WLAN Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing WLAN 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.057% - 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.41%
75th Percentile £638 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 £325 £650
% change year-on-year +76.92% -50.00% +42.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 129 96 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 7.35% 10.62% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 68 149
10th Percentile £350 £193 £243
25th Percentile £393 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.59% -8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £595 £488 £775
90th Percentile £650 £545 £850
North West median daily rate £486 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +7.90% -9.09% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £12.98 - £18.90
25th Percentile £13.74 - £29.25
Median hourly rate £17.06 - £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +229.93%
75th Percentile £18.00 - £101.00
90th Percentile £18.12 - £102.80
North West median hourly rate £29.16 £24.59 £41.23
% change year-on-year +18.61% -40.37% +17.80%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Manchester

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WLAN

WLAN
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto