Wireless Contracts in the North of England

Wireless
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 125 154
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing Wireless 42 61 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 1.28% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.61% 10.18% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 44
10th Percentile £215 £285 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £406 £320
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +26.93% -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £468
90th Percentile £615 £611 £525
England median daily rate £468 £413 £423
% change year-on-year +13.33% -2.37% +10.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £22.85 -
25th Percentile - £23.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £24.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.25% +13.38%
75th Percentile - £25.13 £22.50
90th Percentile - £25.65 -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the North of England

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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 Wireless within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +5 33 £400 +1.01% 38
Yorkshire +4 8 £220 -63.64% 27
North East -3 1 £550 -8.33% 12
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) Azure
1 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
1 5 (11.90%) Google Workspace
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.38%) IaaS
3 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (61.90%) Firewall
2 17 (40.48%) WAN
3 16 (38.10%) VPN
4 15 (35.71%) LAN
5 13 (30.95%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
7 11 (26.19%) Network Security
8 10 (23.81%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (23.81%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (14.29%) Internet
10 6 (14.29%) WLAN
11 4 (9.52%) MPLS
11 4 (9.52%) SD-WAN
11 4 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (7.14%) BGP
12 3 (7.14%) DWDM
12 3 (7.14%) iSCSI
12 3 (7.14%) OSPF
12 3 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (2.38%) Advertising
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (61.90%) Network Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Support Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Audit Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cabling Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.90%) CMDB
2 5 (11.90%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (7.14%) IVR
4 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Windows
2 5 (11.90%) Windows 10
3 4 (9.52%) Linux
4 3 (7.14%) Android
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 8 (19.05%) ITIL
3 7 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
4 5 (11.90%) Network Design
4 5 (11.90%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (11.90%) Problem Management
5 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (9.52%) Information Security
5 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 3 (7.14%) BCP
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 3 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (4.76%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (4.76%) Migration
7 2 (4.76%) Network Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Threat Detection
8 1 (2.38%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) Perl
1 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (19.05%) CCNA
4 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 5 (11.90%) DBS Check
6 3 (7.14%) CCNP
7 1 (2.38%) CCIE
7 1 (2.38%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.38%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) SLA
2 5 (11.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) SmoothWall
2 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (69.05%) Cisco
2 14 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 5 (11.90%) Aruba
3 5 (11.90%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) Apple
4 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 3 (7.14%) Meraki
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.76%) Arista
5 2 (4.76%) F5
5 2 (4.76%) HP
5 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.38%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.38%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.38%) Juniper
6 1 (2.38%) McAfee
6 1 (2.38%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) Symantec
6 1 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (2.38%) Zscaler