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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 112 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 8 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 1.12% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.17% 6.74% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 33
10th Percentile £241 £213 £209
25th Percentile £347 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £581 £506 £513
90th Percentile £683 £608 £596
England median daily rate £425 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.85% - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £33.22
% change year-on-year +16.98% -35.28% -10.82%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 460 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.04% 16.64% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 296 278
10th Percentile £213 £288 £210
25th Percentile £320 £460 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +1.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £614 £632 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £700
England median daily rate £492 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 40 53
10th Percentile £26.70 £12.32 £20.90
25th Percentile £40.07 £13.58 £46.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% +3.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.56 £66.25
90th Percentile - £75.30 £84.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +50.23%

Wireless
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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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Wireless

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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 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Wireless

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DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -8 4 £581 +10.71% 13
Wiltshire +18 1 - - 2
Somerset -7 1 - - 1
Gloucestershire - 1 £500 - 6
Wireless
England

Wireless
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 (12.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) 802.11
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) NFC
2 1 (12.50%) RFID
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (25.00%) Network Design
1 2 (25.00%) Network Management
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
2 1 (12.50%) Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) CCNP
3 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Aruba
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Ruckus Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Zscaler