Wireless Contracts in South Wales

Wireless
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Wireless 12 0 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.96% - 4.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% - 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 14
10th Percentile £267 - £250
25th Percentile £285 - £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.78%
75th Percentile £475 - £468
90th Percentile £510 - £588
Wales median daily rate £400 £300 £275
% change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% -6.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 31 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 23.14% 9.25% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 69
10th Percentile £160 £165 £238
25th Percentile £199 £199 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £220 £513
Median % change year-on-year +42.05% -57.07% +13.89%
75th Percentile £437 £513 £550
90th Percentile £465 £667 £640
Wales median daily rate £350 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £30.00 - -
25th Percentile £33.75 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 -
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% - -
75th Percentile £44.06 - -
90th Percentile £51.25 - -
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year +123.68% - -

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cardiff - 6 £450 - 4
Newport - 5 £288 - 2
Gwent - 1 £290 -
Wireless
Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) BGP
1 8 (66.67%) OSPF
2 6 (50.00%) Network Security
3 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (41.67%) IPsec
3 5 (41.67%) SD-WAN
4 4 (33.33%) Firewall
5 3 (25.00%) 802.11
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (25.00%) DHCP
5 3 (25.00%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) HSRP
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (16.67%) IPv4
6 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (8.33%) VLAN
7 1 (8.33%) VoIP
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (41.67%) Network Design
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Statistics
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Offensive Security
5 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Red Team
5 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) CCNP
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) CCIE
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) CREST Certified
4 1 (8.33%) OSCE
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Cacti
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Ekahau
3 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Aerohive Networks
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Meraki
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk