Wireless Contracts in the North West

Wireless
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 87 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Wireless 33 45 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.68% 1.63% 1.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.09% 12.36% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 32
10th Percentile £230 - £211
25th Percentile £325 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £396 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £550 £433 £496
90th Percentile £623 £545 £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 0
Median hourly rate - £24.25 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the North West

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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 Wireless within the North West 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
Cumbria - 17 £446 - 3
Cheshire +1 7 £325 -40.91% 7
Manchester -15 4 £475 +19.95% 13
Merseyside +4 3 £215 -27.12% 6
Wireless
England

Wireless
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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
1 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) IaaS
3 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (69.70%) Firewall
2 15 (45.45%) VPN
2 15 (45.45%) WAN
3 13 (39.39%) LAN
3 13 (39.39%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (36.36%) Cisco Wireless
5 10 (30.30%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (30.30%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (30.30%) Network Security
6 9 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (18.18%) Internet
8 5 (15.15%) WLAN
9 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
9 4 (12.12%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (9.09%) BGP
10 3 (9.09%) DWDM
10 3 (9.09%) iSCSI
10 3 (9.09%) MPLS
10 3 (9.09%) OSPF
10 3 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Legal
2 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Advertising
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Audit Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Cabling Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Support
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) CMDB
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
1 5 (15.15%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (9.09%) IVR
3 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Android
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) ITIL
2 5 (15.15%) Asset Management
2 5 (15.15%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (15.15%) Problem Management
3 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (12.12%) Network Design
4 3 (9.09%) BCP
4 3 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 3 (9.09%) Information Security
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 3 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (6.06%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (6.06%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.06%) Migration
5 2 (6.06%) Network Architecture
5 2 (6.06%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (6.06%) Threat Detection
6 1 (3.03%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) Perl
1 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (21.21%) CCNA
4 6 (18.18%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) CCIE
6 1 (3.03%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.03%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.12%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (78.79%) Cisco
2 14 (42.42%) Palo Alto
3 4 (12.12%) Aruba
4 3 (9.09%) Apple
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) Arista
5 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.06%) HP
5 2 (6.06%) Meraki
5 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.03%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.03%) F5
6 1 (3.03%) Juniper
6 1 (3.03%) McAfee
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) Symantec
6 1 (3.03%) VMware
6 1 (3.03%) Zscaler