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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 133 114
Rank change year-on-year +1 -19 -17
Contract jobs citing Wireless 58 30 94
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.21% 0.95% 1.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.68% 5.37% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 59
10th Percentile - £250 £184
25th Percentile £204 £300 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +3.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £491 £538 £531
90th Percentile £586 £588 £603
England median daily rate £305 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -35.79% +11.76% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile £91.25 - £17.69
Median hourly rate £92.50 £24.66 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +275.10% +4.94% -61.55%
75th Percentile £93.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £19.00 £28.58 £18.93
% change year-on-year -33.52% +50.98% -56.73%

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 668 559 1,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.90% 17.62% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 313 652
10th Percentile £219 £220 £203
25th Percentile £352 £375 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £648 £638
England median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 102
10th Percentile £18.32 £29.93 £13.29
25th Percentile £23.02 £35.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% +8.23% +28.32%
75th Percentile £60.90 £63.13 £71.42
90th Percentile £81.20 £72.00 £85.52
England median hourly rate £28.88 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -17.49% -26.32% +138.93%

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 22 February 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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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 22 February 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 -3 37 £431 +11.29% 28
Berkshire +1 31 £413 -0.60% 8
Surrey -1 14 £208 -49.70% 8
Buckinghamshire -8 4 £577 +370.82% 14
Hampshire -24 4 £513 +2.50% 16
Kent - 3 £400 - 8
Oxfordshire - 2 £315 - 6
West Sussex -15 1 - -
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 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) AWS
2 14 (24.14%) Azure
3 12 (20.69%) SaaS
4 11 (18.97%) Sauce Labs
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.72%) OCI
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (46.55%) Firewall
2 12 (20.69%) LAN
3 10 (17.24%) WAN
4 8 (13.79%) BGP
4 8 (13.79%) OSPF
5 7 (12.07%) Network Security
6 6 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (10.34%) VPN
7 5 (8.62%) WLAN
8 4 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (6.90%) Internet
8 4 (6.90%) Intranet
8 4 (6.90%) MPLS
9 3 (5.17%) 5G
9 3 (5.17%) IPsec
9 3 (5.17%) SNMP
10 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
10 2 (3.45%) TACACS
10 2 (3.45%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) MySQL
1 11 (18.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Burp Suite
2 13 (22.41%) Metasploit
3 11 (18.97%) Android Studio
3 11 (18.97%) Browser DevTools
3 11 (18.97%) Eclipse
3 11 (18.97%) Xcode
4 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Finance
3 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Penetration Tester
1 18 (31.03%) Tester
2 11 (18.97%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 11 (18.97%) Network Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Support Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Technical Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Technical Support
2 11 (18.97%) Technical Support Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) UX Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Network Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Senior
6 2 (3.45%) Designer
6 2 (3.45%) IP Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) Ajax
1 11 (18.97%) AngularJS
1 11 (18.97%) CSS
1 11 (18.97%) GraphQL
1 11 (18.97%) React
2 4 (6.90%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Security Posture
2 11 (18.97%) Mobile App
3 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) BYOD
6 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.72%) iSeries
7 1 (1.72%) Life Science
7 1 (1.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.10%) Windows
2 14 (24.14%) Linux
3 11 (18.97%) Android
3 11 (18.97%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) Penetration Testing
2 13 (22.41%) Cloud Security
2 13 (22.41%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (22.41%) Regulatory Compliance
3 12 (20.69%) User Experience
4 11 (18.97%) Information Security
4 11 (18.97%) Mobile Application Development
4 11 (18.97%) OO
5 10 (17.24%) Business Development
5 10 (17.24%) Commercial Awareness
5 10 (17.24%) Line Management
5 10 (17.24%) Security Management
6 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
7 6 (10.34%) Network Management
8 5 (8.62%) Incident Response
8 5 (8.62%) PRINCE2
8 5 (8.62%) Social Engineering
9 4 (6.90%) ITIL
9 4 (6.90%) Network Load Balancing
9 4 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Python
2 11 (18.97%) Java
2 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
2 11 (18.97%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 24 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.86%) Degree
4 13 (22.41%) CHECK Team Member
5 11 (18.97%) CREST Certified
5 11 (18.97%) Cyber Scheme
5 11 (18.97%) Postgraduate
6 8 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (8.62%) CCNP
8 4 (6.90%) CCNA
8 4 (6.90%) PMI Certification
8 4 (6.90%) PMP
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
9 3 (5.17%) CCIE
9 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
10 2 (3.45%) JNCIE
10 2 (3.45%) SANS
11 1 (1.72%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.72%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (22.41%) GDPR
2 13 (22.41%) PCI DSS
3 11 (18.97%) PMO
3 11 (18.97%) QA
4 3 (5.17%) NCSC
5 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.45%) NIST
5 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Nmap
2 3 (5.17%) Ansible
2 3 (5.17%) Nessus
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) CASB
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Cisco
2 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.97%) Oracle
3 11 (18.97%) ServiceNow
3 11 (18.97%) Splunk
4 9 (15.52%) Palo Alto
5 7 (12.07%) Juniper
6 6 (10.34%) Aruba
6 6 (10.34%) Meraki
7 4 (6.90%) F5
7 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.17%) VMware
9 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.45%) Mitel
9 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.72%) Arista
10 1 (1.72%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.72%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.72%) HP
10 1 (1.72%) Openreach