WLAN Contracts in Scotland

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WLAN 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 113 126 158
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +9
Contract jobs citing WLAN 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 1.20% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £203 £231 £330
25th Percentile £236 £305 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £294 £444 £413
Median % change year-on-year -33.80% +7.58% -
75th Percentile £348 £592 £463
90th Percentile £379 £672 £508
UK median daily rate £413 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -21.43% +0.48% +15.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

WLAN 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 141 250 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.68% 11.28% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 150 227
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 £525 £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 £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for WLAN in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for WLAN in Scotland

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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 WLAN within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 2 £400 -42.86%
West Lothian +12 1 £188 - 1
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UK

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Continuity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Avaya
1 2 (66.67%) Extreme Networks
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki