Wireless Contracts in the South East

Wireless
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 118 74
Rank change year-on-year -11 -44 +68
Contract jobs citing Wireless 35 75 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.01% 1.44% 2.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.79% 7.30% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 46 112
10th Percentile - £117 £201
25th Percentile £204 £210 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £305 £333
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -8.31% -13.07%
75th Percentile £520 £516 £450
90th Percentile £545 £657 £638
England median daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £20.08 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.27% +25.47% -28.09%
75th Percentile £89.63 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile - - £73.20
England median hourly rate £27.58 £21.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +31.31% -47.50% +43.09%

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 605 1,027 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.50% 19.78% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 526 592
10th Percentile £204 £261 £228
25th Percentile £356 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £467
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +7.18% +1.41%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £578
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 115 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.63 £50.91 £22.61
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -0.26% +76.92%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £85.49 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.48% -2.88% +92.31%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the South East

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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 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the South East

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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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +23 18 £415 -2.35% 43
Surrey -5 9 £208 -22.35% 13
Berkshire +18 7 £415 - 24
Hampshire +13 6 £500 +8.11% 27
Buckinghamshire +11 6 - - 10
Oxfordshire -10 5 - - 10
West Sussex - 1 £425 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
3 5 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) Akamai
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (57.14%) Firewall
2 11 (31.43%) VPN
3 9 (25.71%) WAN
4 7 (20.00%) Internet
4 7 (20.00%) LAN
4 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (14.29%) DHCP
5 5 (14.29%) DNS
5 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (8.57%) 802.11
6 3 (8.57%) Network Security
6 3 (8.57%) VLAN
7 2 (5.71%) 5G
7 2 (5.71%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.86%) DMVPN
8 1 (2.86%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) MySQL
1 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Android Studio
1 5 (14.29%) Browser DevTools
1 5 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 5 (14.29%) Xcode
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
General
1 28 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Support Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Help Desk Agent
3 6 (17.14%) Help Desk Support
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Technical Support
4 5 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) UX Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Wireless Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) IT Support
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 5 (14.29%) Ajax
1 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 5 (14.29%) CSS
1 5 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 5 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Android
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 5 (14.29%) Unix
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 10 (28.57%) Time Management
3 8 (22.86%) ITIL
4 6 (17.14%) Incident Management
4 6 (17.14%) User Experience
5 5 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
5 5 (14.29%) OO
6 4 (11.43%) ITSM
6 4 (11.43%) Project Management
6 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Service Management
7 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.57%) Data Collection
7 3 (8.57%) Network Design
7 3 (8.57%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (5.71%) Data Security
8 2 (5.71%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 5 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Degree
2 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.29%) A+ Certification
5 5 (14.29%) CCNP
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (11.43%) CCNA
7 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
7 2 (5.71%) PMP
8 1 (2.86%) CCIE
8 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
3 1 (2.86%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Cisco
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) Juniper
2 9 (25.71%) ServiceNow
3 6 (17.14%) Aruba
4 5 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 5 (14.29%) Oracle
4 5 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 5 (14.29%) Splunk
5 4 (11.43%) F5
5 4 (11.43%) Meraki
6 3 (8.57%) AirMagnet
6 3 (8.57%) Ekahau
6 3 (8.57%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (5.71%) Qualys
7 2 (5.71%) VMware
8 1 (2.86%) Arista
8 1 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (2.86%) Zscaler