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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 113 112
Rank change year-on-year -40 -1 +46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 34 56 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 1.33% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.61% 11.31% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 65
10th Percentile £278 £313 £243
25th Percentile £325 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +4.97% +6.47%
75th Percentile £489 £592 £488
90th Percentile £492 £635 £583
England median daily rate £413 £413 £425
% change year-on-year - -2.94% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £33.22
% change year-on-year +16.98% -35.28% -20.90%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 514 495 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.80% 11.76% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 311 465
10th Percentile £160 £215 £220
25th Percentile £325 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £539 £650 £575
90th Percentile £638 £823 £650
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +0.90% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £31.38 £18.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £24.87 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +134.22% +40.99% -19.82%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.31 £44.50
90th Percentile £68.71 £51.96 £47.26
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.73% -2.64% +43.01%

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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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Wireless
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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 27 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
Yorkshire -8 17 £450 -18.18% 25
North West -28 15 £325 -7.14% 23
North East -4 2 £550 -8.33% 6
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:

Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Google Workspace
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) Firewall
2 14 (41.18%) WAN
3 12 (35.29%) LAN
4 9 (26.47%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (23.53%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (17.65%) Cisco Wireless
7 5 (14.71%) WLAN
8 4 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (11.76%) Network Security
8 4 (11.76%) SD-WAN
9 3 (8.82%) Ethernet
9 3 (8.82%) MPLS
9 3 (8.82%) NGFW
9 3 (8.82%) VPN
10 2 (5.88%) DNS
10 2 (5.88%) DWDM
10 2 (5.88%) Internet
10 2 (5.88%) SSL
10 2 (5.88%) VoIP
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Support Technician
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Implementation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Audit Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cabling Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Field Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Network Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.71%) CMDB
3 5 (14.71%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.94%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 7 (20.59%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Customer Service
1 7 (20.59%) ITIL
2 6 (17.65%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
3 5 (14.71%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (14.71%) Problem Management
4 3 (8.82%) Analytics
4 3 (8.82%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (8.82%) Product Management
5 2 (5.88%) Agile
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (5.88%) Load Balancing
5 2 (5.88%) Migration
5 2 (5.88%) Network Design
5 2 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.94%) B2B
6 1 (2.94%) Change Management
6 1 (2.94%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) Perl
1 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) DBS Check
3 6 (17.65%) Degree
4 5 (14.71%) CCNA
5 2 (5.88%) CCNP
5 2 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.94%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) GDPR
1 6 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) SmoothWall
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) Cisco
2 10 (29.41%) F5
2 10 (29.41%) SolarWinds
3 8 (23.53%) LogicMonitor
4 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
5 6 (17.65%) Google
6 3 (8.82%) Aruba
6 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.88%) Meraki
8 1 (2.94%) Arista
8 1 (2.94%) HP
8 1 (2.94%) Juniper
8 1 (2.94%) McAfee
8 1 (2.94%) Splunk
8 1 (2.94%) VMware