802.1X Contract Job Trends in the South East

IEEE 802.1X
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring 802.1X skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 172 205
Rank change year-on-year +13 +33 +52
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 4 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.087% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 0.56% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £575 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £395 £320 £550
% change year-on-year +23.44% -41.82% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

802.1X falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 597 715 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.15% 15.55% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 478 578
10th Percentile £288 £321 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £635
90th Percentile £625 £670 £700
England median daily rate £512 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.90% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 44
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £54.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.72
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -5.40%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing 802.1X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for 802.1X in the South East

802.1X
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing 802.1X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing 802.1X

802.1X
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing 802.1X.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing 802.1X

802.1X
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.1X within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Berkshire +19 3 - - 1
Thames Valley +14 3 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £550 - 1
802.1X
England

802.1X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) 802.11
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data Collection
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) AirMagnet
2 3 (75.00%) Aruba
2 3 (75.00%) Ekahau
2 3 (75.00%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Dell KACE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Ubiquiti