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

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 92 80
Rank change year-on-year -28 -12 +46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 13 35 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.59% 1.45% 2.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.35% 11.86% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 47
10th Percentile £300 - £333
25th Percentile - £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £413 £486
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -15.12% +13.68%
75th Percentile £409 £534 £491
90th Percentile £499 £597 £603
England median daily rate £425 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +3.66% -3.53% -
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% +2.22%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 299 295 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.58% 12.22% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 196 282
10th Percentile £146 £256 £300
25th Percentile £325 £392 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +8.16% -
75th Percentile £538 £678 £565
90th Percentile £669 £838 £634
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £22.40 £24.61 £15.72
25th Percentile £26.00 £35.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year +36.94% +191.13% -47.57%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £26.44
90th Percentile £69.00 £62.80 £49.35
England median hourly rate £43.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.73% -0.23% +57.14%

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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 19 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
Cheshire -23 6 £325 -38.10% 7
Cumbria +12 3 £300 -
Manchester -22 2 £450 +28.57% 13
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
3 6 (46.15%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) LAN
4 5 (38.46%) WLAN
5 2 (15.38%) DWDM
5 2 (15.38%) Internet
5 2 (15.38%) MPLS
5 2 (15.38%) Network Security
5 2 (15.38%) VPN
6 1 (7.69%) BGP
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (7.69%) DMZ
6 1 (7.69%) IPsec
6 1 (7.69%) L2TP
6 1 (7.69%) Multicast
6 1 (7.69%) OSPF
6 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Audit Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cabling Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) CMDB
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
1 5 (38.46%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Asset Management
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
1 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (7.69%) B2B
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Network Design
3 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Product Management
3 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Perl
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Aruba
2 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 2 (15.38%) Meraki
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Arista
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper
4 1 (7.69%) McAfee
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk