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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 576 659
Rank change year-on-year +34 +83 +189
Contract jobs citing 802.11 11 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.009% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.076% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 14
10th Percentile £301 - £425
25th Percentile £325 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £486
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.48%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £513 - £522
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 - £486
% change year-on-year - - +21.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £22.64 - £76.60
25th Percentile £29.91 - £76.75
Median hourly rate £42.65 £40.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -49.21% +142.31%
75th Percentile £56.01 - £82.01
90th Percentile £63.65 - £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.79 £40.00 £78.50
% change year-on-year -55.53% -49.04% +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 4,001 5,259 7,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.28% 12.46% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,401 3,103 4,621
10th Percentile £235 £213 £231
25th Percentile £370 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £463
% change year-on-year -4.04% +7.03% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 405 349
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.50 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.89 £17.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.30 £73.75 £76.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.48 £47.50 £47.73
% change year-on-year -12.68% -0.48% +107.52%

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 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 802.11 in the UK

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 802.11 over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for 802.11 in the UK

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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 17 July 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 +62 8 £400 - 11
UK excluding London +26 7 £320 - 9
South East +35 3 - - 2
London - 3 £400 - 5
Wales +6 2 £290 -
South West +47 1 - -
East of England +15 1 £350 - 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Wireless
2 7 (63.64%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (45.45%) Network Security
3 5 (45.45%) VLAN
4 4 (36.36%) BGP
4 4 (36.36%) OSPF
5 3 (27.27%) HSRP
5 3 (27.27%) IPsec
5 3 (27.27%) WLAN
6 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (18.18%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (18.18%) Firewall
6 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
6 2 (18.18%) Wireless Security
7 1 (9.09%) DHCP
7 1 (9.09%) DNS
7 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
7 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Wireless Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
4 3 (27.27%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
2 5 (45.45%) Network Design
3 3 (27.27%) Data Collection
4 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (9.09%) Network Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
5 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Runbook
5 1 (9.09%) Statistics
5 1 (9.09%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (36.36%) CCNP
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (9.09%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Cacti
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) AirMagnet
2 6 (54.55%) Ekahau
3 5 (45.45%) Juniper
3 5 (45.45%) Meraki
4 4 (36.36%) Aruba
4 4 (36.36%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
6 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 1 (9.09%) F5
6 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 1 (9.09%) VMware