WLAN Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing WLAN 4 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 2.65% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile £363 £196 £287
25th Percentile £398 £463 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £583 £470
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +24.04% -1.05%
75th Percentile £458 £598 £490
90th Percentile £459 £635 £491
South East median daily rate £458 £583 £470
% change year-on-year -21.44% +24.04% +1.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

WLAN 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 301 378 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.46% 18.82% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 189 358
10th Percentile £225 £230 £180
25th Percentile £325 £400 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +7.97% -7.38%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £588
90th Percentile £611 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 24
10th Percentile £19.00 £22.28 £23.74
25th Percentile £45.50 £27.94 £24.19
Median hourly rate £77.00 £38.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.31% +27.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £89.63 £48.94 £75.36
90th Percentile - £54.83 £81.01
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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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 WLAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Berkshire -14 4 £456 -21.78% 5
WLAN
South East

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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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds