Wireless Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Wireless
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.92% 1.27% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.17% 6.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.39% - -
South West median daily rate £213 £413 £438
% change year-on-year -48.48% -5.71% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £27.10 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 48 29 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 22.12% 18.35% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 13 16
10th Percentile £225 £239 £171
25th Percentile £229 £475 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £325
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +69.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £506
90th Percentile £588 £649 £690
South West median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £36.65 - £37.38
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £48.31
Median hourly rate £40.54 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +211.85% -74.95% +196.51%
75th Percentile £43.84 £13.50 £55.47
90th Percentile £56.23 - £55.61
South West median hourly rate £46.25 £67.02 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.99% +18.64% +476.43%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Somerset

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Wireless

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Wireless

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Telepresence
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam