Wi-Fi Contracts in the North West

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 109 130
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 22 57 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.80% 1.79% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.13% 13.44% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 34
10th Percentile £204 £275 £211
25th Percentile £220 £334 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £470 £294
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% +60.00% +56.67%
75th Percentile £515 £528 £420
90th Percentile £516 £550 £511
England median daily rate £370 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -12.94% +6.25% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

Wi-Fi is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 359 424 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.08% 13.34% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 300 353
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £313 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £653 £575 £586
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 13
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +68.92% -65.09%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.66 £23.91
% change year-on-year +114.36% -21.96% -4.36%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Cumbria -10 14 £515 +5.97% 2
Manchester +1 7 £220 -56.00% 9
Cheshire -4 1 £200 -48.39% 4
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) Firewall
2 14 (63.64%) Cisco ISE
2 14 (63.64%) NetScaler
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (54.55%) BGP
4 12 (54.55%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (54.55%) EIGRP
4 12 (54.55%) HSRP
4 12 (54.55%) IPsec
4 12 (54.55%) OSPF
4 12 (54.55%) SNMP
4 12 (54.55%) Spanning Tree
5 5 (22.73%) WAN
6 3 (13.64%) LAN
6 3 (13.64%) VLAN
6 3 (13.64%) VoIP
6 3 (13.64%) VPN
7 1 (4.55%) NAS
7 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) IT Support
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Jinja
2 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
2 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Network Management
2 13 (59.09%) ITIL
3 12 (54.55%) Change Management
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) ITSM
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Quality Management
6 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 2 (9.09%) Network Design
7 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.55%) Security Management
7 1 (4.55%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (4.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) Tcl
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) CCNA
2 12 (54.55%) CCNP
2 12 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Firmware
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) Autotask
2 3 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 14 (63.64%) Palo Alto
3 13 (59.09%) Citrix
4 12 (54.55%) SolarWinds
5 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
6 4 (18.18%) VMware
7 3 (13.64%) Apple
7 3 (13.64%) Datto
7 3 (13.64%) Meraki
8 1 (4.55%) Brocade
8 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.55%) HP
8 1 (4.55%) Juniper
8 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.55%) Tufin
8 1 (4.55%) Veeam
8 1 (4.55%) Zscaler