802.11 Contracts in the UK excluding London

IEEE 802.11
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring 802.11 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 802.11 over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 383 433
Rank change year-on-year +57 +50 +78
Contract jobs citing 802.11 8 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.053% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.32% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile £261 - £380
25th Percentile £276 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £300 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -38.27% +143.00%
75th Percentile £315 - £531
90th Percentile £351 - £545
UK median daily rate £454 £413 £481
% change year-on-year +10.06% -14.15% -16.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £80.85
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +142.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

802.11 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

802.11
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing 802.11 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 802.11 in the UK excluding London

802.11
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 802.11 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 802.11 in the UK excluding London

802.11
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 802.11 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 802.11 in the UK excluding London

802.11
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.11 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +29 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £290 -
East of England +39 2 £300 - 2
802.11
UK

802.11
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Wireless
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
3 4 (50.00%) BGP
3 4 (50.00%) HSRP
3 4 (50.00%) IPsec
3 4 (50.00%) OSPF
3 4 (50.00%) VLAN
3 4 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) Multicast
5 1 (12.50%) VoIP
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
5 1 (12.50%) WLAN
5 1 (12.50%) WPA2
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (62.50%) Network Design
3 3 (37.50%) Data Collection
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Statistics
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Cacti
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) AirMagnet
2 4 (50.00%) Aruba
2 4 (50.00%) Ekahau
3 3 (37.50%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (37.50%) Juniper
3 3 (37.50%) Meraki
3 3 (37.50%) SolarWinds
4 2 (25.00%) VMware