802.11 Contracts

IEEE 802.11
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring 802.11 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 802.11 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 567 689
Rank change year-on-year +61 +122 +141
Contract jobs citing 802.11 14 15 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.034% 0.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £278 £343 £370
25th Percentile £285 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -13.16% -17.39%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £525
90th Percentile - - £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £450 £491
% change year-on-year -35.56% -8.26% +145.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £76.60
25th Percentile £66.25 - £76.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £68.75 - £82.01
90th Percentile - - £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +141.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

802.11 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

802.11
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 802.11 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 802.11.

Daily rate trend for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 802.11 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 802.11.

Hourly rate trend for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.11 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +53 11 £454 +10.06% 6
UK excluding London +58 8 £290 -35.56% 6
London - 6 £475 - 1
South East +37 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £290 -
East of England +31 2 £300 - 2
Work from Home +29 2 £475 +10.14% 16

802.11
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
1 10 (71.43%) Wireless
2 5 (35.71%) Broadband
2 5 (35.71%) DOCSIS
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security
3 4 (28.57%) BGP
3 4 (28.57%) HSRP
3 4 (28.57%) IPsec
3 4 (28.57%) OSPF
3 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (28.57%) VLAN
3 4 (28.57%) VoIP
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
4 3 (21.43%) DSL
4 3 (21.43%) GPON
4 3 (21.43%) IPv4
4 3 (21.43%) IPv6
4 3 (21.43%) PPP
4 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Gerrit
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Wireless Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Wireless Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (21.43%) Yocto
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 3 (21.43%) Digital TV
1 3 (21.43%) STB
2 2 (14.29%) IoT
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Smart Home
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Network Design
3 3 (21.43%) Data Collection
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Statistics
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.14%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
2 7 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) CCNP
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Cacti
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) AirMagnet
2 5 (35.71%) Aruba
2 5 (35.71%) Ekahau
3 4 (28.57%) Extreme Networks
3 4 (28.57%) Juniper
3 4 (28.57%) Meraki
4 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (14.29%) VMware
6 1 (7.14%) Splunk