Wireless Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wireless Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Wireless Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 373 412
Rank change year-on-year +5 +39 +102
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Wireless Engineer 5 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.066% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.071% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - - £229
25th Percentile £431 £463 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% -32.00%
75th Percentile £444 £488 £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £419 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -11.84% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £48.56 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year - +45.22% -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £48.56 £33.44
% change year-on-year +39.00% +45.22% -33.12%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,821 16,808 20,763
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.22% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,431 10,221 14,047
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £362 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 1,696 1,140
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.98 £13.99
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% +17.20% +77.14%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.99
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%

Wireless Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Wireless Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless Engineer in the UK excluding London

Wireless Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wireless Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wireless Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Wireless Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wireless Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wireless Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Wireless Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Wireless Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +24 3 - - 5
Midlands - 2 £438 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 4
Wireless Engineer
UK

Wireless Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 August 2025, Wireless Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Wireless Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Aruba
3 3 (60.00%) 802.1X
3 3 (60.00%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (60.00%) Ekahau
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Data Collection
3 3 (60.00%) Meraki
3 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 3 (60.00%) 802.11
3 3 (60.00%) Network Design
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) AirMagnet
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) Firmware
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall

Wireless Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) 802.11
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Collection
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Aruba
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) AirMagnet
2 3 (60.00%) Ekahau
2 3 (60.00%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) Meraki