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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 122 76
Rank change year-on-year +1 -46 +77
Contract jobs citing Wireless 48 54 155
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.34% 1.27% 2.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.99% 7.04% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 110
10th Percentile - £112 £209
25th Percentile £204 £243 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £321 £368
Median % change year-on-year -35.41% -12.59% -16.48%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £463
90th Percentile £520 £621 £635
England median daily rate £385 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -14.44% - +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 14
10th Percentile £71.00 £18.58 £14.45
25th Percentile £80.32 £20.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 £22.40 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +300.13% +22.74% +35.19%
75th Percentile £91.69 £37.33 £25.38
90th Percentile £120.25 £46.28 £43.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £33.00
% change year-on-year -48.21% +47.15% -

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 601 767 1,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.77% 17.99% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 428 644
10th Percentile £204 £242 £205
25th Percentile £325 £389 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.97% +0.12%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £665 £672
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 76
10th Percentile £18.86 £26.40 £15.50
25th Percentile £38.94 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £84.66 £74.38 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.04 £75.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%

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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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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
Surrey -9 20 £208 -35.41% 13
Thames Valley +25 18 £370 -22.11% 28
Berkshire +19 14 £370 -32.73% 19
Hampshire +10 7 £500 - 20
Oxfordshire -5 4 - - 8
West Sussex - 2 £450 - 2
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 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) SaaS
1 15 (31.25%) Sauce Labs
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.42%) Azure
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) Firewall
2 11 (22.92%) LAN
2 11 (22.92%) WAN
3 8 (16.67%) VPN
4 6 (12.50%) BGP
4 6 (12.50%) MPLS
4 6 (12.50%) OSPF
4 6 (12.50%) SNMP
4 6 (12.50%) TACACS
5 5 (10.42%) 5G
5 5 (10.42%) DNS
5 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.33%) DHCP
7 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (4.17%) Network Security
7 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (2.08%) DMVPN
8 1 (2.08%) IPsec
8 1 (2.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) MySQL
1 15 (31.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Android Studio
1 15 (31.25%) Browser DevTools
1 15 (31.25%) Eclipse
1 15 (31.25%) Xcode
2 4 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 34 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 15 (31.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 15 (31.25%) Technical Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) UX Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Designer
5 6 (12.50%) IP Designer
5 6 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Service Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Ajax
1 15 (31.25%) AngularJS
1 15 (31.25%) CSS
1 15 (31.25%) GraphQL
1 15 (31.25%) React
2 1 (2.08%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Mobile App
2 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 6 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) CMDB
5 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Windows
2 16 (33.33%) Linux
2 16 (33.33%) Unix
3 15 (31.25%) Android
4 4 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Mobile Application Development
1 15 (31.25%) OO
1 15 (31.25%) User Experience
2 10 (20.83%) ITIL
3 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
5 7 (14.58%) Validation
6 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
7 5 (10.42%) ITSM
7 5 (10.42%) PRINCE2
7 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.33%) Project Management
8 4 (8.33%) Service Management
8 4 (8.33%) Time Management
9 3 (6.25%) Programme Management
9 3 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 15 (31.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) Degree
3 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.58%) CCIE
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 6 (12.50%) JNCIE
6 5 (10.42%) PMI Certification
6 5 (10.42%) PMP
7 4 (8.33%) A+ Certification
7 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (6.25%) CCNP
9 2 (4.17%) CCNA
10 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) SLA
3 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (39.58%) ServiceNow
3 17 (35.42%) Cisco
4 15 (31.25%) Oracle
4 15 (31.25%) Splunk
5 10 (20.83%) Juniper
6 9 (18.75%) F5
7 8 (16.67%) VMware
8 7 (14.58%) Fortinet
9 6 (12.50%) Palo Alto
10 5 (10.42%) Aruba
10 5 (10.42%) CheckPoint
11 2 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (4.17%) Mitel
11 2 (4.17%) Qualys
11 2 (4.17%) Zscaler
12 1 (2.08%) Blue Coat
12 1 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (2.08%) Google