Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Preston

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 1.35% 2.27% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% - -
Lancashire median daily rate £335 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -36.19% +23.53% +57.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Preston

Wi-Fi 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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 9.46% 4.55% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £660 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.10% +40.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £697 £538 £388
90th Percentile £700 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £670 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +41.05% +11.76% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £70.16 £49.00 £47.83
% change year-on-year +43.18% +2.45% +17.88%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in Preston

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds