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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 133 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 -59 +50
Contract jobs citing Wireless 55 46 156
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.44% 1.11% 2.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.15% 6.24% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 110
10th Percentile - £85 £209
25th Percentile £204 £225 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £267 £395
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% -32.34% -10.23%
75th Percentile £433 £506 £490
90th Percentile £522 £545 £635
England median daily rate £380 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -14.61% -1.11% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 13
10th Percentile £71.00 £18.10 £14.30
25th Percentile £80.32 £18.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 £20.08 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +346.48% -2.07% +51.85%
75th Percentile £91.69 £21.27 £25.50
90th Percentile £120.25 £21.95 £44.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £25.00
% change year-on-year -48.21% +94.24% -24.24%

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 601 737 1,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.70% 17.82% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 409 645
10th Percentile £204 £237 £205
25th Percentile £326 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £587 £606 £580
90th Percentile £625 £651 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 76
10th Percentile £18.32 £26.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £27.01 £35.00 £24.26
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.22% +28.32%
75th Percentile £86.32 £75.00 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.45 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.45
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.57% +34.15%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Wireless job vacancy trend 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 4 November 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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +18 23 £413 -8.33% 32
Surrey -2 22 £208 -22.35% 15
Berkshire +20 18 £413 -13.16% 20
Hampshire +7 7 £500 - 24
Oxfordshire -7 4 - - 8
West Sussex - 2 £450 - 3
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £700 +64.71% 4
East Sussex - 1 £190 -
Wireless
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (10.91%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.91%) SaaS
1 17 (30.91%) Sauce Labs
2 11 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (10.91%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.64%) Firewall
2 11 (20.00%) LAN
2 11 (20.00%) WAN
3 8 (14.55%) VPN
4 6 (10.91%) BGP
4 6 (10.91%) MPLS
4 6 (10.91%) OSPF
4 6 (10.91%) SNMP
4 6 (10.91%) TACACS
5 5 (9.09%) 5G
5 5 (9.09%) DNS
5 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.27%) DHCP
6 4 (7.27%) Internet
6 4 (7.27%) Intranet
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (3.64%) Network Security
7 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.82%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) MySQL
1 17 (30.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Android Studio
1 17 (30.91%) Browser DevTools
1 17 (30.91%) Eclipse
1 17 (30.91%) Xcode
2 4 (7.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
General
1 39 (70.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 18 (32.73%) Technical Support
3 17 (30.91%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 17 (30.91%) Technical Engineer
3 17 (30.91%) Technical Support Engineer
3 17 (30.91%) UX Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Network Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Designer
5 6 (10.91%) IP Designer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Penetration Tester
6 4 (7.27%) Tester
7 3 (5.45%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Service Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) IT Support
8 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) Ajax
1 17 (30.91%) AngularJS
1 17 (30.91%) CSS
1 17 (30.91%) GraphQL
1 17 (30.91%) React
2 1 (1.82%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Mobile App
2 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.00%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Linux
3 18 (32.73%) Unix
4 17 (30.91%) Android
5 4 (7.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.82%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) User Experience
2 17 (30.91%) Mobile Application Development
2 17 (30.91%) OO
3 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.18%) ITIL
5 8 (14.55%) Computer Science
5 8 (14.55%) Incident Response
6 7 (12.73%) Validation
7 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
7 6 (10.91%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (10.91%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 5 (9.09%) ITSM
8 5 (9.09%) PRINCE2
8 5 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (7.27%) Project Management
9 4 (7.27%) Service Management
9 4 (7.27%) Social Engineering
9 4 (7.27%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) Python
2 17 (30.91%) Java
2 17 (30.91%) JavaScript
2 17 (30.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) Degree
4 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.73%) CCIE
6 6 (10.91%) AWS Certification
6 6 (10.91%) JNCIE
7 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (9.09%) PMI Certification
7 5 (9.09%) PMP
8 4 (7.27%) A+ Certification
8 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (5.45%) CCNP
10 2 (3.64%) CCNA
11 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.82%) CCSP
11 1 (1.82%) CISSP
11 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) SLA
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.91%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Ansible
2 6 (10.91%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.64%) Nessus
3 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.82%) Nmap
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (38.18%) ServiceNow
3 17 (30.91%) Cisco
3 17 (30.91%) Oracle
3 17 (30.91%) Splunk
4 10 (18.18%) Juniper
5 9 (16.36%) F5
6 8 (14.55%) VMware
7 7 (12.73%) Fortinet
8 6 (10.91%) Palo Alto
9 5 (9.09%) Aruba
9 5 (9.09%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (3.64%) Mitel
10 2 (3.64%) Qualys
10 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.82%) Blue Coat
11 1 (1.82%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (1.82%) Google
11 1 (1.82%) Openreach