WLAN Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 110 133
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing WLAN 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.14% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.16% 0.94% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £246 £430
25th Percentile - £284 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £360 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +190.32%
75th Percentile - £449 £463
90th Percentile - £495 £470
UK median daily rate £460 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -10.24% +5.13% +8.33%

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 173 212 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.83% 13.58% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 120 165
10th Percentile £207 £167 £173
25th Percentile £281 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £431 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -21.59% +22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £539 £650
90th Percentile £623 £619 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 19
10th Percentile - £20.25 £17.48
25th Percentile - £21.00 £38.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £23.77 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +215.56% -60.39% +270.83%
75th Percentile - £43.22 £67.63
90th Percentile - £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +9.23% -42.47% +125.96%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

WLAN job vacancy trend in Scotland

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WLAN

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing WLAN

WLAN
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 11 January 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
Aberdeen - 1 £270 -
Edinburgh - 1 - - 3
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Executive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SAP