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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 341 368
Rank change year-on-year -63 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 51 28 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.18% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.89% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 2
10th Percentile £380 £345 £288
25th Percentile £417 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -24.53%
75th Percentile £586 £560 £475
90th Percentile £670 £603 £513
UK median daily rate £488 £519 £350
% change year-on-year -6.11% +48.36% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £63.13 - -
25th Percentile £65.94 - -
Median hourly rate £81.75 £17.79 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +359.53% -55.53% -
75th Percentile £96.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.75 £42.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +91.70% +6.61% -52.97%

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 4,813 3,161 3,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.42% 20.65% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,133 2,132 2,209
10th Percentile £355 £317 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £675 £637 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 132 179
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £55.38 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.16 £78.33 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -47 28 £525 -4.55% 3
North of England -66 14 £450 -13.56%
North West -44 13 £435 -16.39%
Midlands -55 5 £394 +10.92% 1
West Midlands -61 5 £394 +10.92% 1
East of England -23 3 £475 +35.71% 1
Wales -14 1 £455 - 1
South West -47 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.96%) AWS
2 1 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (1.96%) Azure
2 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (60.78%) Firewall
2 28 (54.90%) DNS
3 25 (49.02%) WAN
3 25 (49.02%) Wireless
4 24 (47.06%) LAN
5 19 (37.25%) DHCP
6 18 (35.29%) Network Security
6 18 (35.29%) VPN
7 17 (33.33%) BGP
8 16 (31.37%) OSPF
9 15 (29.41%) Cisco ISE
10 14 (27.45%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (25.49%) VXLAN
12 11 (21.57%) BIG-IP
12 11 (21.57%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (19.61%) Internet
13 10 (19.61%) Junos
13 10 (19.61%) SSL
14 9 (17.65%) IPsec
15 8 (15.69%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (52.94%) Network Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 11 (21.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Firewall Specialist
4 8 (15.69%) Network Specialist
5 5 (9.80%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Wireless Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Cisco Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Security Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) PKI
2 14 (27.45%) Data Centre
3 10 (19.61%) Clustering
4 6 (11.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.84%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.92%) BYOD
6 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) High Availability
2 11 (21.57%) Identity Access Management
2 11 (21.57%) Observability
2 11 (21.57%) Zero Trust
3 10 (19.61%) Load Balancing
3 10 (19.61%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (13.73%) Change Management
4 7 (13.73%) ITIL
5 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 6 (11.76%) Validation
6 5 (9.80%) Analytics
6 5 (9.80%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
6 5 (9.80%) Network Design
6 5 (9.80%) Runbook
6 5 (9.80%) SIEM
6 5 (9.80%) User Experience
7 4 (7.84%) Migration
7 4 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) Perl
1 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.92%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) Lisp
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (56.86%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (52.94%) Security Cleared
3 19 (37.25%) CCNP
4 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
5 8 (15.69%) CCNA
5 8 (15.69%) DV Cleared
6 7 (13.73%) CCIE
7 6 (11.76%) Degree
8 5 (9.80%) CWNA
9 4 (7.84%) CCIE Wireless
9 4 (7.84%) CWDP
9 4 (7.84%) CWNE
9 4 (7.84%) CWSP
10 3 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (3.92%) JNCIA
11 2 (3.92%) JNCIP
11 2 (3.92%) JNCIS
12 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) NIST
2 4 (7.84%) NCSC
3 3 (5.88%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.84%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.96%) Firmware
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) FortiGate
2 3 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (1.96%) CASB
3 1 (1.96%) Grafana
3 1 (1.96%) Nessus
3 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.96%) SCCM
3 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (72.55%) Cisco
2 17 (33.33%) F5
3 14 (27.45%) Juniper
4 13 (25.49%) Aruba
4 13 (25.49%) SolarWinds
5 12 (23.53%) Palo Alto
5 12 (23.53%) Splunk
6 10 (19.61%) Extreme Networks
7 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 7 (13.73%) Ekahau
9 6 (11.76%) CheckPoint
10 5 (9.80%) ForeScout
10 5 (9.80%) VMware
10 5 (9.80%) Zscaler
11 4 (7.84%) Blue Coat
11 4 (7.84%) Fortinet
11 4 (7.84%) Meraki
12 3 (5.88%) Arista
12 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
13 2 (3.92%) Becrypt