802.1X Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IEEE 802.1X
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring 802.1X skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 357 334
Rank change year-on-year -6 -23 +140
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 22 13 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.075% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.43% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 55
10th Percentile £351 £518 £464
25th Percentile £370 £525 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% -6.14% +41.38%
75th Percentile £460 £575 £627
90th Percentile £534 £583 £629
UK median daily rate £400 £320 £575
% change year-on-year +25.00% -44.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.53% - -
UK median hourly rate £17.79 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -55.53% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,072 3,004 3,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.26% 17.35% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,022 1,813 2,687
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 138 153
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.53 £45.90
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.18 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.86% +13.04% -11.54%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

802.1X job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

802.1X
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing 802.1X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing 802.1X

802.1X
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 802.1X in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK excluding London

802.1X
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing 802.1X.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing 802.1X

802.1X
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 802.1X within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Midlands - 10 £380 - 1
West Midlands - 10 £380 - 1
North West -9 6 £520 -0.95% 4
North of England -16 6 £520 -0.95% 6
East of England -10 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £425 -
South East +11 1 £400 -30.43% 5
South West +8 1 - - 1
802.1X
UK

802.1X
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) Firewall
1 20 (90.91%) WAN
2 14 (63.64%) VPN
2 14 (63.64%) Wireless
3 10 (45.45%) Cisco IPT
3 10 (45.45%) DMVPN
3 10 (45.45%) DNS
3 10 (45.45%) IPsec
3 10 (45.45%) Network Security
3 10 (45.45%) SSL
4 7 (31.82%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (31.82%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (18.18%) 802.11
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (18.18%) NetScaler
5 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
6 3 (13.64%) BGP
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (13.64%) OSPF
7 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Security Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Principal Network Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Voice Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Change Management
1 10 (45.45%) Inventory Management
2 7 (31.82%) Network Architecture
3 6 (27.27%) Network Design
4 5 (22.73%) Network Management
5 4 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
6 2 (9.09%) High Availability
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.55%) AI
7 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
7 1 (4.55%) Cost Reduction
7 1 (4.55%) Creative Thinking
7 1 (4.55%) Minimum Viable Product
7 1 (4.55%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.55%) Project Management
7 1 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.55%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (22.73%) CCNP
5 3 (13.64%) CCIE
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
6 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 11 (50.00%) F5
2 11 (50.00%) Juniper
3 10 (45.45%) Blue Coat
4 9 (40.91%) Meraki
4 9 (40.91%) Palo Alto
5 3 (13.64%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) Riverbed