WLAN Contracts in the Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WLAN over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 123 141
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +58
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WLAN 7 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.28% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.19% 2.12% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £583 £407
25th Percentile £190 £654 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £750 £441
Median % change year-on-year -73.33% +69.97% +61.93%
75th Percentile £210 £775 £488
90th Percentile - - £510
England median daily rate £400 £575 £486
% change year-on-year -30.43% +18.31% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £18.50
75th Percentile £31.00 - £19.25
90th Percentile £37.13 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £24.87 £33.22
% change year-on-year +20.63% -25.14% +88.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 319 378 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.65% 14.06% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 235 315
10th Percentile £246 £205 £206
25th Percentile £350 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +15.29% -
75th Percentile £564 £626 £575
90th Percentile £644 £740 £721
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 23
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -48.11% +52.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile £39.80 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +43.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WLAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing WLAN

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DemandTrendContract 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 WLAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -10 6 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £200 - 2
WLAN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) WAN
3 5 (71.43%) PuTTY
3 5 (71.43%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Change Management
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
1 5 (71.43%) Process Improvement
1 5 (71.43%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCNA
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (71.43%) CCNP
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (71.43%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Peregrine
2 5 (71.43%) Remedy
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow