802.11 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IEEE 802.11
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring 802.11 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 163 175
Rank change year-on-year -47 +12 +60
Contract jobs citing 802.11 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.063% 0.028% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 0.18% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £486
25th Percentile - £513 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £525 £627
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -16.27% +38.56%
75th Percentile - £538 -
90th Percentile - - £629
England median daily rate £400 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -13.89% +3.22% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

802.11 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 556 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.93% 15.63% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 312 506
10th Percentile £170 £163 £256
25th Percentile £308 £258 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -7.12% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £551 £592
90th Percentile £675 £661 £672
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 21
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £32.88 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.57% +85.55% -14.35%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.23 £26.78
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.91 £46.88
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +26.38%

802.11
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 802.11 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

802.11 job vacancy trend in the North of England

802.11
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing 802.11.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing 802.11

802.11
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing 802.11.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing 802.11

802.11
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.11 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 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
North West -27 3 £300 -42.86% 1
802.11
England

802.11
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Packet Inspection
2 1 (33.33%) Escalation Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto