Wireless Contracts in the South East

Wireless
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless 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 126 127 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 -46 +75
Contract jobs citing Wireless 33 79 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 1.42% 2.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.43% 6.29% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 45 103
10th Percentile £186 £184 £226
25th Percentile £296 £200 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -6.25% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £488
90th Percentile £531 £630 £566
England median daily rate £468 £413 £423
% change year-on-year +13.33% -2.37% +10.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 6
10th Percentile - £16.68 £17.50
25th Percentile - £17.69 £25.56
Median hourly rate £14.20 £21.10 £61.13
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -65.49% +88.08%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £80.25
90th Percentile £18.38 - £80.63
England median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%

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 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the South East

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Thames Valley +47 21 £325 -38.10% 38
Berkshire +34 11 £370 -32.73% 23
Buckinghamshire - 9 £123 - 7
Hampshire +3 5 £500 +138.10% 28
Surrey -7 4 £363 - 14
West Sussex - 3 - - 4
Oxfordshire -3 1 - - 13
Sussex - 1 - - 2
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 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Akamai
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (75.76%) Firewall
2 15 (45.45%) WAN
3 13 (39.39%) LAN
4 10 (30.30%) VPN
5 8 (24.24%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (24.24%) Internet
6 7 (21.21%) SD-WAN
7 5 (15.15%) VLAN
8 4 (12.12%) DNS
8 4 (12.12%) Network Security
9 3 (9.09%) 802.11
9 3 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (9.09%) DHCP
9 3 (9.09%) IP Telephony
9 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
9 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (6.06%) BGP
10 2 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (6.06%) OSPF
10 2 (6.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
General
1 19 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Marketing
5 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.06%) Electronics
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Help Desk Agent
2 6 (18.18%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) HR Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Network Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Network Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.06%) CMDB
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) NHS
2 2 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.18%) Time Management
3 4 (12.12%) Change Management
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.12%) Network Design
4 3 (9.09%) Break/Fix
4 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.09%) Data Collection
4 3 (9.09%) ITIL
4 3 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (6.06%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security
5 2 (6.06%) Design Patterns
5 2 (6.06%) High Availability
5 2 (6.06%) Incident Management
5 2 (6.06%) Inventory Management
5 2 (6.06%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (6.06%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) CCNA
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) CCNP
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) HP APS
6 1 (3.03%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CCIE
6 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.03%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.03%) MCP
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.03%) vSphere
2 1 (3.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) CASB
2 1 (3.03%) SCCM
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Cisco
2 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) Juniper
3 7 (21.21%) Palo Alto
4 6 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 5 (15.15%) Aruba
6 4 (12.12%) Meraki
7 3 (9.09%) AirMagnet
7 3 (9.09%) CheckPoint
7 3 (9.09%) Ekahau
7 3 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (9.09%) HP
8 2 (6.06%) F5
8 2 (6.06%) Infoblox
8 2 (6.06%) SAP
8 2 (6.06%) VMware
9 1 (3.03%) Apple
9 1 (3.03%) Blue Coat
9 1 (3.03%) Citrix
9 1 (3.03%) Dell