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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 112 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 -8
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 5 38 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 1.21% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 7.45% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 22
10th Percentile £231 £185 £164
25th Percentile £266 £206 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £375 £315
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £375 £613 £425
90th Percentile £465 £650 £561
England median daily rate £438 £350 £388
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.68% -3.13%
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% +15.80%
75th Percentile - - £35.56
90th Percentile - - £64.48
England median hourly rate £15.14 £16.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -8.24% -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 253 510 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.09% 16.21% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 326 385
10th Percentile £244 £293 £208
25th Percentile £409 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £534 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +3.19% +15.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 43 118
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.55 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.70%
75th Percentile - £68.46 £59.67
90th Percentile - £83.60 £76.44
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

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 16 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 16 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
Gloucestershire +9 3 £410 - 11
Bristol +4 1 £325 -35.00% 11
Dorset - 1 £215 - 5
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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) VoIP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper Architect
3 1 (20.00%) PC Support
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (60.00%) Android
2 3 (60.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) AppManager
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) FireEye
3 1 (20.00%) Ivanti
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) VMware