802.1X Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IEEE 802.1X
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring 802.1X skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.087% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
South East median daily rate £463 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -19.57% +27.78% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

802.1X falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 381 302 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.64% 18.23% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 209 220
10th Percentile £363 £385 £325
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £526 £500
% change year-on-year -4.99% +5.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 15
10th Percentile - £72.18 £56.50
25th Percentile - £73.01 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +22.11% -21.53%
75th Percentile £81.25 £76.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.96 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 802.1X relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

802.1X job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

802.1X
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 802.1X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 802.1X

802.1X
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 802.1X.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 802.1X

802.1X
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.1X within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
Berkshire - 1 £400 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
802.1X
South East

802.1X
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) CCDA
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler