Wi-Fi Contracts in the Thames Valley

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 98 95
Rank change year-on-year -32 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 10 48 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 1.64% 2.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.63% 10.11% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 30 36
10th Percentile £202 £185 £190
25th Percentile £250 £418 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £488 £405
Median % change year-on-year -38.50% +20.44% +22.26%
75th Percentile £473 £548 £565
90th Percentile £474 £581 £686
South East median daily rate £371 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £39.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +96.25% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Wi-Fi is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 613 475 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.69% 16.22% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 288 343
10th Percentile £205 £313 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £570 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £489 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +0.26% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 18
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.70 £12.19
25th Percentile £23.78 £25.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -50.72%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.47 £81.22 £38.80
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.76% +143.02% -33.85%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the Thames Valley

Wi-Fi
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 Wi-Fi within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire +21 4 £300 -34.11% 8
Berkshire -48 4 £250 -50.98% 7
Oxfordshire - 2 £465 - 5
Wi-Fi
South East

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) Junos
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (20.00%) Information Security
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) JNCIA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Meraki
3 2 (20.00%) Apple
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper