Wireless Contract Job Trends in the South East

Wireless
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Wireless skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 121 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 -57 +79
Contract jobs citing Wireless 45 63 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.29% 1.36% 3.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.48% 7.39% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 134
10th Percentile £201 £117 £208
25th Percentile £204 £243 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £343 £350
Median % change year-on-year -39.42% -2.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £505 £525 £450
90th Percentile £534 £657 £611
England median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile - £17.66 £15.35
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 £17.72 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +320.43% +10.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £89.63 £21.27 £23.25
90th Percentile £96.67 £37.33 £45.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.44
% change year-on-year +5.67% -28.83% -26.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 602 852 1,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.26% 18.37% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 458 654
10th Percentile £204 £254 £207
25th Percentile £338 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year - +9.36% -0.60%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £672 £675
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 90 71
10th Percentile £14.20 £26.93 £15.50
25th Percentile £28.00 £53.40 £29.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.24 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.23 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -28.12% +1.52% +34.50%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the South East over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless in the South East over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in the South East

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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 Wireless within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley +28 21 £363 -14.71% 32
Surrey -13 14 £208 -39.42% 11
Berkshire +17 12 £363 -13.17% 26
Hampshire +19 6 £500 -20.00% 19
Oxfordshire -6 5 - - 7
Buckinghamshire +10 4 - - 4
West Sussex - 2 £450 - 4
East Sussex - 1 £190 - 3
Wireless
England

Wireless
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) AWS
2 10 (22.22%) SaaS
2 10 (22.22%) Sauce Labs
3 7 (15.56%) Azure
4 6 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) Akamai
6 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) Firewall
2 12 (26.67%) WAN
3 11 (24.44%) LAN
4 8 (17.78%) VPN
5 7 (15.56%) MPLS
5 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
6 6 (13.33%) BGP
6 6 (13.33%) OSPF
6 6 (13.33%) SNMP
6 6 (13.33%) TACACS
7 5 (11.11%) Internet
7 5 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (8.89%) DHCP
8 4 (8.89%) DNS
9 3 (6.67%) 802.11
9 3 (6.67%) VLAN
10 2 (4.44%) 5G
10 2 (4.44%) Network Security
10 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
11 1 (2.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) MySQL
1 10 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Android Studio
1 10 (22.22%) Browser DevTools
1 10 (22.22%) Eclipse
1 10 (22.22%) Xcode
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
General
1 36 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Support Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Technical Support
3 10 (22.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 10 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Technical Support Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) UX Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Network Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Senior
6 6 (13.33%) Designer
6 6 (13.33%) IP Designer
7 4 (8.89%) Help Desk Agent
7 4 (8.89%) Help Desk Support
8 3 (6.67%) Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Wireless Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) IT Support
9 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Service Delivery Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) Ajax
1 10 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 10 (22.22%) CSS
1 10 (22.22%) GraphQL
1 10 (22.22%) React
2 4 (8.89%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Windows
2 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) Unix
3 10 (22.22%) Android
4 5 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (24.44%) User Experience
3 10 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 10 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
3 10 (22.22%) OO
4 8 (17.78%) ITIL
4 8 (17.78%) Time Management
5 7 (15.56%) Incident Response
5 7 (15.56%) Validation
6 6 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (11.11%) ITSM
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.89%) Incident Management
8 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Project Management
8 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery
8 4 (8.89%) Service Management
9 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (6.67%) Data Collection
9 3 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) Java
2 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 10 (22.22%) Perl
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (24.44%) Degree
3 7 (15.56%) CCIE
3 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (13.33%) JNCIE
4 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 5 (11.11%) A+ Certification
5 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.67%) CCNP
7 2 (4.44%) CCNA
7 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.44%) PMP
8 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.22%) vSphere
5 1 (2.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Ansible
1 7 (15.56%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (51.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (44.44%) Cisco
3 14 (31.11%) ServiceNow
4 12 (26.67%) Juniper
5 10 (22.22%) Oracle
5 10 (22.22%) Splunk
6 9 (20.00%) F5
6 9 (20.00%) VMware
7 7 (15.56%) Fortinet
8 6 (13.33%) Aruba
9 5 (11.11%) Palo Alto
10 4 (8.89%) CheckPoint
10 4 (8.89%) Meraki
11 3 (6.67%) AirMagnet
11 3 (6.67%) Ekahau
11 3 (6.67%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (4.44%) Qualys
12 2 (4.44%) Zscaler
13 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds