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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 307 371
Rank change year-on-year -61 +64 +12
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 69 34 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 1.43% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 16 11
10th Percentile £300 £256 £298
25th Percentile £416 £285 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.59% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £470
90th Percentile £582 £626 £594
UK median daily rate £515 £454 £450
% change year-on-year +13.44% +0.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.02 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -15.53% - -

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 3,890 2,374 3,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.86% 18.75% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 1,659 2,205
10th Percentile £350 £350 £320
25th Percentile £412 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £658 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 74 145
10th Percentile £40.75 £26.68 £20.77
25th Percentile £55.00 £58.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.70 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -28 29 £525 +8.81% 8
North of England -61 26 £515 +0.49% 3
North West -23 24 £515 +0.49% 1
South West -20 9 £513 -12.39% 2
West Midlands -54 6 £380 +162.07%
Midlands -58 6 £380 +162.07%
North East - 1 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £295 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 2 (2.90%) Azure
3 1 (1.45%) AWS
3 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.45%) GCP
3 1 (1.45%) Google Ads
3 1 (1.45%) IaaS
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.45%) PaaS
3 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (86.96%) Firewall
2 50 (72.46%) WAN
3 36 (52.17%) LAN
4 32 (46.38%) Cisco ISE
5 30 (43.48%) BGP
5 30 (43.48%) OSPF
6 29 (42.03%) DHCP
6 29 (42.03%) Ethernet VPN
6 29 (42.03%) VXLAN
6 29 (42.03%) Wireless
7 26 (37.68%) DNS
8 23 (33.33%) Junos
9 22 (31.88%) BIG-IP
9 22 (31.88%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (20.29%) Network Security
11 12 (17.39%) VLAN
12 9 (13.04%) NetScaler
12 9 (13.04%) SD-WAN
12 9 (13.04%) VPN
13 8 (11.59%) 802.11
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.80%) Military
4 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Finance
5 1 (1.45%) Banking
5 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.45%) French Language
5 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (50.72%) Network Engineer
2 12 (17.39%) Firewall Specialist
2 12 (17.39%) Network Specialist
3 9 (13.04%) Senior
3 9 (13.04%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Wireless Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Lead
7 2 (2.90%) Product Owner
7 2 (2.90%) Security Engineer
8 1 (1.45%) Deployment Engineer
8 1 (1.45%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (1.45%) Network Support
8 1 (1.45%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (46.38%) Data Centre
2 22 (31.88%) Clustering
3 21 (30.43%) PKI
4 6 (8.70%) IoT
5 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.80%) BYOD
6 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 24 (34.78%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Load Balancing
2 23 (33.33%) High Availability
2 23 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 21 (30.43%) Observability
4 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.94%) ITIL
6 10 (14.49%) Network Architecture
7 9 (13.04%) Availability Management
7 9 (13.04%) Impact Assessments
7 9 (13.04%) Network Design
7 9 (13.04%) Network Management
7 9 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (13.04%) Zero Trust
8 8 (11.59%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (11.59%) Service Management
9 7 (10.14%) ITSM
9 7 (10.14%) Regulatory Compliance
9 7 (10.14%) Risk Assessment
9 7 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.14%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.90%) Python
2 1 (1.45%) Perl
2 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 33 (47.83%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (24.64%) SC Cleared
4 15 (21.74%) DV Cleared
5 14 (20.29%) CCNP
6 9 (13.04%) CCNA
7 8 (11.59%) JNCIP
7 8 (11.59%) JNCIS
8 7 (10.14%) JNCIA
9 5 (7.25%) Degree
10 4 (5.80%) CCIE
10 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (4.35%) CCIE Wireless
11 3 (4.35%) CWDP
11 3 (4.35%) CWNA
11 3 (4.35%) CWNE
11 3 (4.35%) CWSP
12 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
13 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) SLA
2 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
3 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.90%) Firmware
1 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 3 (4.35%) CASB
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (78.26%) Cisco
2 26 (37.68%) Juniper
3 25 (36.23%) F5
4 24 (34.78%) SolarWinds
5 22 (31.88%) Splunk
6 20 (28.99%) Extreme Networks
7 19 (27.54%) Palo Alto
8 18 (26.09%) Aruba
9 17 (24.64%) Meraki
10 8 (11.59%) CheckPoint
10 8 (11.59%) Ekahau
11 6 (8.70%) ForeScout
12 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
13 3 (4.35%) Fortinet
14 2 (2.90%) Blue Coat
14 2 (2.90%) HP
14 2 (2.90%) VMware
15 1 (1.45%) Citrix
15 1 (1.45%) Dell
15 1 (1.45%) LogicMonitor