Wireless Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Wireless
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.50% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - -
75th Percentile £393 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £436 £454 £406
% change year-on-year -3.91% +11.75% -4.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 19 26 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.41% 15.38% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 3
10th Percentile £224 £134 £516
25th Percentile £305 £135 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £148 £563
Median % change year-on-year +153.38% -73.69% +171.08%
75th Percentile £391 £165 £569
90th Percentile £471 £375 -
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.97% - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £31.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.96% -20.53% +116.22%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Wireless job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Wireless

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Wireless

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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
County Armagh - 1 £385 -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNA
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet