Wireless Contracts in Scotland

Wireless
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 123 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Wireless 13 5 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% 0.23% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.29% 2.01% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 22
10th Percentile £317 £207 £163
25th Percentile £362 £209 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £225 £413
Median % change year-on-year +77.56% -45.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £456 £481 £477
90th Percentile £484 £628 £536
UK median daily rate £450 £414 £425
% change year-on-year +8.76% -2.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK 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
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 140 249 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.67% 11.22% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 149 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £522 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +7 6 £399 +83.45% 13
Aberdeen - 4 £456 -
Edinburgh +4 1 - - 3
Aberdeenshire - 1 £325 -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
1 10 (76.92%) WAN
2 9 (69.23%) BGP
2 9 (69.23%) Network Security
2 9 (69.23%) OSPF
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
3 6 (46.15%) LAN
4 5 (38.46%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (30.77%) EIGRP
5 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
5 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (15.38%) IPsec
7 1 (7.69%) MPLS
7 1 (7.69%) SDH
7 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Field Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (30.77%) Network Design
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Process Management
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (53.85%) CCNP
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
5 1 (7.69%) BC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (76.92%) Palo Alto
3 4 (30.77%) Juniper
4 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (15.38%) F5
6 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
6 1 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (7.69%) Nokia