Wi-Fi Contracts in the South West

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 104 141
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 -2
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 5 40 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 1.25% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.94% 7.60% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 24
10th Percentile £214 £185 £160
25th Percentile £223 £221 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £250 £278
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -9.91% -26.00%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £400
90th Percentile £523 £650 £544
England median daily rate £438 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 4
10th Percentile - - £15.68
25th Percentile - £15.75 £16.05
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year - +119.18% -
75th Percentile - - £35.56
90th Percentile - - £64.48
England median hourly rate £15.44 £16.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.42% -10.81% +12.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Wi-Fi 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 258 526 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.31% 16.45% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 340 410
10th Percentile £250 £281 £218
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £713 £719
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 123
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.61%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.35
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.20
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the South West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the South West

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the South West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the South West

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Dorset - 2 £220 - 4
Bristol +11 1 £520 +4.00% 6
Gloucestershire +5 1 £525 - 7
Devon - 1 £413 - 2
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
3 3 (60.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Implementation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) WAN Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Workstream Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Workstream Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) AppManager
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Aruba
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Ivanti
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) FireEye
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec