WLAN Contracts in the North of England

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 156 176 212
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 +3
Contract jobs citing WLAN 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.81% 1.50% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - - £263
25th Percentile - - £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £650 £325
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +100.00% -15.03%
75th Percentile - - £370
90th Percentile - - £429
England median daily rate £419 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -30.21% +26.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £24.87 -
England median hourly rate - £24.87 £33.00
% change year-on-year - -24.64% +16.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN 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 WLAN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for WLAN 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 WLAN in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for WLAN 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 WLAN 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 +22 8 £325 - 4
Yorkshire +4 2 - - 3
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England

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) LAN
2 7 (70.00%) WAN
3 6 (60.00%) Wireless
4 5 (50.00%) Network Security
4 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (30.00%) SAN
6 1 (10.00%) Firewall
6 1 (10.00%) Internet
6 1 (10.00%) NGN
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (10.00%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Industrial Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (50.00%) CMDB
2 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Asset Management
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNA
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Symantec
2 3 (30.00%) Veeam
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki