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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 130 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 -27 +5
Contract jobs citing Wireless 63 32 109
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.43% 0.96% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.31% 5.45% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 73
10th Percentile - £240 £200
25th Percentile £204 £300 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £390 £390
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £409 £538 £490
90th Percentile £488 £578 £574
England median daily rate £300 £452 £425
% change year-on-year -33.63% +6.35% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £73.03 - £14.85
25th Percentile £76.06 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £82.25 - £23.50
75th Percentile £88.56 - £25.00
90th Percentile £91.68 - £45.50
England median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £19.72
% change year-on-year -60.87% +146.31% -40.26%

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 611 587 1,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.89% 17.59% 23.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 319 643
10th Percentile £206 £237 £201
25th Percentile £348 £400 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £556
90th Percentile £650 £651 £649
England median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 76
10th Percentile £17.96 £31.25 £23.81
25th Percentile £20.13 £35.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £57.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -6.85% +37.78%
75th Percentile £71.58 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.02 £76.53
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +129.40%

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 18 January 2026.

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 18 January 2026.

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 18 January 2026. 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 +4 33 £413 +17.86% 29
Berkshire +4 30 £406 +1.56% 19
Surrey +2 19 £208 -46.79% 7
Hampshire -20 5 £400 -15.79% 15
West Sussex -10 3 £450 - 4
Kent - 3 £400 - 12
Oxfordshire - 2 £315 - 3
Buckinghamshire -7 1 £700 +471.43% 7
East Sussex - 1 £190 - 3
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 (9.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (19.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) SaaS
2 15 (23.81%) Sauce Labs
3 12 (19.05%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) OCI
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (36.51%) Firewall
2 14 (22.22%) LAN
3 12 (19.05%) WAN
4 11 (17.46%) BGP
4 11 (17.46%) OSPF
5 7 (11.11%) MPLS
6 6 (9.52%) Network Security
6 6 (9.52%) SNMP
6 6 (9.52%) TACACS
7 4 (6.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (6.35%) Internet
7 4 (6.35%) Intranet
7 4 (6.35%) WLAN
8 3 (4.76%) 5G
8 3 (4.76%) VPN
9 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (3.17%) IPsec
10 1 (1.59%) DMVPN
10 1 (1.59%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.59%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) MySQL
1 15 (23.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Android Studio
1 15 (23.81%) Browser DevTools
1 15 (23.81%) Eclipse
1 15 (23.81%) Xcode
2 14 (22.22%) Burp Suite
3 12 (19.05%) Metasploit
General
1 41 (65.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.17%) Finance
4 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Penetration Tester
1 17 (26.98%) Tester
2 16 (25.40%) Technical Support
3 15 (23.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 15 (23.81%) Support Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) Technical Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) UX Engineer
4 12 (19.05%) Network Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Designer
5 6 (9.52%) IP Designer
6 4 (6.35%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.81%) Ajax
1 15 (23.81%) AngularJS
1 15 (23.81%) CSS
1 15 (23.81%) GraphQL
1 15 (23.81%) React
2 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.81%) Mobile App
2 12 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 12 (19.05%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) CMDB
6 1 (1.59%) iSeries
6 1 (1.59%) Life Science
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.86%) Windows
2 18 (28.57%) Linux
3 16 (25.40%) Unix
4 15 (23.81%) Android
5 2 (3.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Penetration Testing
2 16 (25.40%) User Experience
3 15 (23.81%) Mobile Application Development
3 15 (23.81%) OO
4 12 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (19.05%) Regulatory Compliance
5 11 (17.46%) Cloud Security
5 11 (17.46%) Information Security
6 9 (14.29%) Business Development
6 9 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
6 9 (14.29%) Line Management
6 9 (14.29%) Security Management
7 8 (12.70%) Customer Service
7 8 (12.70%) Incident Response
8 7 (11.11%) Validation
9 6 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
10 5 (7.94%) Social Engineering
11 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.35%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.35%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 15 (23.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.22%) Degree
4 12 (19.05%) CHECK Team Member
5 10 (15.87%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (15.87%) CREST Certified
5 10 (15.87%) Cyber Scheme
5 10 (15.87%) Postgraduate
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Certification
6 6 (9.52%) CCIE
6 6 (9.52%) JNCIE
7 3 (4.76%) CCNP
7 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.76%) PMI Certification
7 3 (4.76%) PMP
8 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
8 2 (3.17%) SANS
9 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.05%) GDPR
1 12 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (19.05%) PCI DSS
2 10 (15.87%) PMO
2 10 (15.87%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.52%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (22.22%) Nmap
2 6 (9.52%) Ansible
2 6 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.98%) Cisco
3 15 (23.81%) Oracle
3 15 (23.81%) ServiceNow
3 15 (23.81%) Splunk
4 10 (15.87%) Juniper
5 8 (12.70%) F5
5 8 (12.70%) Fortinet
6 7 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 7 (11.11%) VMware
7 5 (7.94%) Meraki
8 4 (6.35%) Aruba
9 2 (3.17%) Mitel
9 2 (3.17%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.59%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.59%) BT
10 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.59%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.59%) Google
10 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor