Wireless Contracts in the South West

Wireless
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 122 104
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 +34
Contract jobs citing Wireless 18 35 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 1.09% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.00% 6.63% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 61
10th Percentile £300 £213 £219
25th Percentile £382 £297 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -10.59% +33.33%
75th Percentile £548 £579 £498
90th Percentile £565 £650 £614
England median daily rate £468 £413 £423
% change year-on-year +13.33% -2.37% +10.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.00 -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £18.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.27% -62.14% +53.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
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 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
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% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the South West

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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 Wireless within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +11 12 £466 +8.43% 11
Wiltshire +28 2 - - 8
Devon +14 2 £301 +40.12% 11
Dorset +4 1 - - 3
Gloucestershire - 1 £500 - 15
Wireless
England

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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 (5.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) Network Security
3 5 (27.78%) VPN
4 4 (22.22%) BGP
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (22.22%) DHCP
4 4 (22.22%) DNS
4 4 (22.22%) LAN
4 4 (22.22%) WAN
5 3 (16.67%) OSPF
5 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (16.67%) VoIP
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (11.11%) VLAN
7 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
General
1 3 (16.67%) Electronics
1 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Network Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Network Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (5.56%) NHS
1 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 3 (16.67%) Network Architecture
1 3 (16.67%) Network Management
2 2 (11.11%) Network Design
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security Management
2 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.11%) Security Management
2 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
3 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.56%) Change Management
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
3 1 (5.56%) Project Management
3 1 (5.56%) Quality Management
3 1 (5.56%) Service Management
3 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
3 1 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) CCIE
3 3 (16.67%) CCNA
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCSA
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Aruba
2 5 (27.78%) Infoblox
3 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 4 (22.22%) Extreme Networks
3 4 (22.22%) F5
3 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 4 (22.22%) Ruckus Wireless
3 4 (22.22%) Zscaler
4 2 (11.11%) Meraki
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.56%) VMware