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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 355 372
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +93
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 27 12 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.067% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 0.39% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 46
10th Percentile £350 £288 £403
25th Percentile £368 £325 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -27.27% +34.15%
75th Percentile £534 £475 £627
90th Percentile £581 £513 £629
UK median daily rate £413 £298 £544
% change year-on-year +38.66% -45.29% +8.75%
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 £42.65 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +6.61% - -

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 2,870 3,057 3,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.72% 17.11% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 1,915 2,751
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 160 123
10th Percentile £31.57 £27.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £74.44 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing 802.1X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 802.1X 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 14 September 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 14 September 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
West Midlands - 10 £380 - 3
Midlands - 10 £380 - 3
North West -5 7 £519 -1.10%
North of England -5 7 £519 -1.10%
South East +13 4 £550 +100.00% 5
South West +24 3 £585 - 2
East of England +5 2 £350 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
802.1X
UK

802.1X
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 (7.41%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Akamai
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) Firewall
1 19 (70.37%) WAN
2 17 (62.96%) Wireless
3 12 (44.44%) VPN
4 11 (40.74%) Network Security
4 11 (40.74%) SSL
4 11 (40.74%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
5 9 (33.33%) DMVPN
5 9 (33.33%) DNS
5 9 (33.33%) IPsec
6 6 (22.22%) 802.11
6 6 (22.22%) NetScaler
6 6 (22.22%) VLAN
7 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (7.41%) BGP
8 2 (7.41%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (7.41%) OSPF
8 2 (7.41%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
5 4 (14.81%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Wireless Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Network Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Voice Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Voice Network Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Wireless Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
2 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Network Design
2 9 (33.33%) Change Management
2 9 (33.33%) Inventory Management
3 7 (25.93%) Network Architecture
3 7 (25.93%) Network Management
4 6 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
4 6 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Data Collection
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.41%) Change Control
7 2 (7.41%) Cryptography
7 2 (7.41%) High Availability
7 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (7.41%) Information Security
7 2 (7.41%) ITIL
8 1 (3.70%) BCP
8 1 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (3.70%) Project Management
8 1 (3.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (14.81%) CCNP
4 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) CCIE
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) OPNET
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (92.59%) Cisco
2 13 (48.15%) Juniper
3 12 (44.44%) Meraki
4 10 (37.04%) Palo Alto
5 9 (33.33%) Blue Coat
5 9 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 9 (33.33%) F5
6 4 (14.81%) AirMagnet
6 4 (14.81%) Ekahau
6 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
7 3 (11.11%) Aruba
7 3 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.70%) Dell KACE
8 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.70%) Riverbed
8 1 (3.70%) Ubiquiti