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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 132 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 -28 0
Contract jobs citing Wireless 58 31 113
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.27% 0.97% 2.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.28% 5.30% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 76
10th Percentile - £234 £189
25th Percentile £204 £300 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £395 £385
Median % change year-on-year -33.54% +2.60% -14.44%
75th Percentile £400 £528 £490
90th Percentile £483 £585 £573
England median daily rate £275 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -42.11% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £73.03 - £15.45
25th Percentile £76.06 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £82.25 £24.66 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +233.54% +4.94% -54.15%
75th Percentile £88.56 - £25.00
90th Percentile £91.68 - £45.50
England median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £18.93
% change year-on-year -60.87% +156.52% -52.38%

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 625 585 1,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.72% 18.23% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 311 667
10th Percentile £219 £230 £200
25th Percentile £350 £375 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.99% -7.40%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 103
10th Percentile £17.78 £31.25 £13.58
25th Percentile £19.00 £35.00 £24.13
Median hourly rate £56.00 £59.13 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +1.96% +28.87%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.82 £78.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +140.18%

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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 1 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless in the South East over the 6 months to 1 February 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 1 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 0 32 £413 +17.86% 18
Berkshire -2 29 £406 +1.56% 10
Surrey +4 17 £208 -43.73% 4
Hampshire -16 4 £235 -51.79% 29
Kent - 3 £400 - 13
West Sussex -14 2 £475 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £315 - 3
Buckinghamshire -7 1 £700 +471.43% 5
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 5 (8.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (20.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) AWS
2 13 (22.41%) SaaS
2 13 (22.41%) Sauce Labs
3 12 (20.69%) Azure
4 5 (8.62%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.21%) Firewall
2 13 (22.41%) LAN
3 11 (18.97%) WAN
4 10 (17.24%) BGP
4 10 (17.24%) OSPF
5 6 (10.34%) MPLS
5 6 (10.34%) Network Security
6 5 (8.62%) SNMP
6 5 (8.62%) TACACS
7 4 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (6.90%) Internet
7 4 (6.90%) Intranet
7 4 (6.90%) WLAN
8 3 (5.17%) 5G
8 3 (5.17%) VPN
9 2 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (3.45%) IPsec
10 1 (1.72%) DMVPN
10 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.72%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.41%) MySQL
1 13 (22.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Burp Suite
2 13 (22.41%) Android Studio
2 13 (22.41%) Browser DevTools
2 13 (22.41%) Eclipse
2 13 (22.41%) Xcode
3 12 (20.69%) Metasploit
General
1 38 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Penetration Tester
1 17 (29.31%) Tester
2 14 (24.14%) Technical Support
3 13 (22.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 13 (22.41%) Support Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) Technical Support Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) UX Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Designer
5 5 (8.62%) IP Designer
6 4 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Firewall Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.41%) Ajax
1 13 (22.41%) AngularJS
1 13 (22.41%) CSS
1 13 (22.41%) GraphQL
1 13 (22.41%) React
2 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Mobile App
2 12 (20.69%) Security Posture
3 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.72%) CMDB
7 1 (1.72%) iSeries
7 1 (1.72%) Life Science
7 1 (1.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.10%) Windows
2 16 (27.59%) Linux
3 14 (24.14%) Unix
4 13 (22.41%) Android
5 2 (3.45%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (24.14%) User Experience
3 13 (22.41%) Mobile Application Development
3 13 (22.41%) OO
4 12 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
5 11 (18.97%) Cloud Security
6 10 (17.24%) Information Security
7 9 (15.52%) Business Development
7 9 (15.52%) Commercial Awareness
7 9 (15.52%) Line Management
7 9 (15.52%) Security Management
8 8 (13.79%) Customer Service
9 7 (12.07%) Incident Response
10 6 (10.34%) Validation
11 5 (8.62%) Network Virtualisation
11 5 (8.62%) Social Engineering
12 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
12 4 (6.90%) Network Management
12 4 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) Java
2 13 (22.41%) JavaScript
2 13 (22.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (24.14%) Degree
4 12 (20.69%) CHECK Team Member
5 10 (17.24%) CREST Certified
5 10 (17.24%) Cyber Scheme
5 10 (17.24%) Postgraduate
6 8 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (8.62%) CCIE
7 5 (8.62%) JNCIE
8 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
8 3 (5.17%) PMP
9 2 (3.45%) CCNP
9 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
9 2 (3.45%) SANS
10 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) GDPR
1 12 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (20.69%) PCI DSS
2 10 (17.24%) PMO
2 10 (17.24%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.62%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Nmap
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 3 (5.17%) Nessus
4 2 (3.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.86%) Cisco
3 13 (22.41%) Oracle
3 13 (22.41%) ServiceNow
3 13 (22.41%) Splunk
4 8 (13.79%) Juniper
5 7 (12.07%) F5
5 7 (12.07%) Fortinet
5 7 (12.07%) Palo Alto
6 6 (10.34%) VMware
7 5 (8.62%) Meraki
8 3 (5.17%) Aruba
9 2 (3.45%) Mitel
10 1 (1.72%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.72%) BT
10 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.72%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.72%) Google
10 1 (1.72%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (1.72%) Openreach