Wireless Security Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Wireless Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Wireless Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless Security 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.065% 0.040% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.49% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 -
England median daily rate £850 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.00% +21.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

Wireless Security 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 408 338 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.20% 13.47% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 176 305
10th Percentile £163 £170 £209
25th Percentile £286 £261 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +4.41% -2.30%
75th Percentile £517 £584 £550
90th Percentile £584 £715 £675
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 30
10th Percentile £17.35 £13.40 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.28 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -11.27% +12.37%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.60 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

Wireless Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireless Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Wireless Security job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Wireless Security
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Wireless Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Wireless Security

Wireless Security
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless Security within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -25 2 - -
Wireless Security
England

Wireless Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) NaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) CWSP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler