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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 347 366
Rank change year-on-year -86 +19 -21
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 46 29 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.86% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 1
10th Percentile £378 £350 -
25th Percentile £417 £368 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.29% -27.62% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £529 £538
90th Percentile £670 £551 -
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £320
% change year-on-year +18.75% +25.00% -44.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £64.38 - -
25th Percentile £74.63 - -
Median hourly rate £96.00 £17.79 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +439.63% -55.53% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £96.00 £42.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.11% +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 4,861 3,364 3,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.16% 21.67% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,122 2,228 2,133
10th Percentile £355 £319 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £608
90th Percentile £681 £649 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 135 163
10th Percentile £29.44 £32.95 £27.15
25th Percentile £56.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%

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 25 September 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 802.1X in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK excluding London

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 25 September 2026. 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 -52 23 £525 +10.53% 4
North of England -58 10 £418 -19.60% 4
Midlands -47 8 £363 -4.61% 5
North West -53 8 £417 -19.69%
West Midlands -42 7 £363 -4.61% 5
East of England -33 3 £475 +35.71% 1
South West -36 3 £350 -40.17% 14
East Midlands - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £500 - 3
Wales - 1 £455 - 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) AWS
1 2 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
1 2 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (50.00%) DNS
1 23 (50.00%) Firewall
1 23 (50.00%) VPN
1 23 (50.00%) Wireless
2 20 (43.48%) Network Security
3 18 (39.13%) WAN
4 13 (28.26%) LAN
4 13 (28.26%) SSL
5 12 (26.09%) DHCP
5 12 (26.09%) IPsec
6 11 (23.91%) BGP
7 10 (21.74%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (19.57%) OSPF
8 9 (19.57%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (17.39%) Internet
10 7 (15.22%) DMVPN
11 6 (13.04%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (13.04%) VLAN
11 6 (13.04%) VXLAN
11 6 (13.04%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Architect
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
3 8 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Firewall Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Network Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Wireless Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) IT Security Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) IP Security Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Senior IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) PKI
2 11 (23.91%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.70%) Operational Technology
5 3 (6.52%) Clustering
5 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.17%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Zero Trust
2 10 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (19.57%) Change Management
4 8 (17.39%) High Availability
5 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
5 7 (15.22%) Runbook
6 5 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (10.87%) Inventory Management
6 5 (10.87%) Key Management
6 5 (10.87%) Network Design
6 5 (10.87%) Validation
7 4 (8.70%) AI
7 4 (8.70%) Analytics
7 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.70%) ITIL
7 4 (8.70%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Security Architecture
7 4 (8.70%) SIEM
7 4 (8.70%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) Perl
2 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.17%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (34.78%) CCNP
4 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
5 8 (17.39%) CCIE
5 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
6 5 (10.87%) CCNA
6 5 (10.87%) Degree
7 4 (8.70%) CWNA
8 3 (6.52%) CCIE Wireless
8 3 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (6.52%) CWDP
8 3 (6.52%) CWNE
8 3 (6.52%) CWSP
8 3 (6.52%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.17%) CCIE Security
9 1 (2.17%) CISSP
9 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) NCSC
1 6 (13.04%) NIST
2 5 (10.87%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) FortiGate
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Iperf
4 1 (2.17%) Nessus
4 1 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (65.22%) Cisco
2 14 (30.43%) F5
3 13 (28.26%) Palo Alto
4 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
5 11 (23.91%) Juniper
6 8 (17.39%) Zscaler
7 7 (15.22%) Aruba
7 7 (15.22%) Blue Coat
7 7 (15.22%) CheckPoint
7 7 (15.22%) SolarWinds
7 7 (15.22%) VMware
8 6 (13.04%) ForeScout
9 5 (10.87%) Splunk
10 4 (8.70%) Arista
10 4 (8.70%) Ekahau
10 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
11 3 (6.52%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
12 2 (4.35%) Becrypt
12 2 (4.35%) LogicMonitor