802.1X Contract Job Trends

IEEE 802.1X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring 802.1X skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 506 502
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 +174
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 45 36 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.50% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 56
10th Percentile £350 £244 £400
25th Percentile £380 £259 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £452 £583
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% -22.47% +22.74%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £627
90th Percentile £574 £563 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% +29.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,335 7,252 9,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.86% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,605 6,619
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 86 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.50 £29.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 802.1X relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

802.1X job vacancy trend in the UK

802.1X
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 802.1X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 802.1X

802.1X
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 802.1X.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 802.1X

802.1X
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 January 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
England -32 40 £488 +7.85% 11
UK excluding London -35 31 £425 -19.05% 12
North West -13 17 £520 -0.95% 2
North of England -41 17 £520 -0.95% 2
Work from Home -4 10 £519 +81.93% 5
London -21 9 £500 +11.11% 4
Midlands - 9 £380 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £380 - 1
East of England -23 2 - - 1
South West -8 1 £513 -35.94% 1
South East -11 1 £400 -30.43% 3
Scotland - 1 £425 - 1

802.1X
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) AWS
1 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) Route 53
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (86.67%) Firewall
2 33 (73.33%) WAN
3 24 (53.33%) Wireless
4 22 (48.89%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (44.44%) VPN
6 19 (42.22%) Cisco ISE
7 16 (35.56%) Network Security
8 15 (33.33%) DNS
9 14 (31.11%) IPsec
10 13 (28.89%) NetScaler
11 12 (26.67%) BGP
12 11 (24.44%) Cisco IPT
12 11 (24.44%) DMVPN
12 11 (24.44%) OSPF
12 11 (24.44%) SSL
13 10 (22.22%) VLAN
14 9 (20.00%) 802.11
15 7 (15.56%) SD-WAN
16 5 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
16 5 (11.11%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 12 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.78%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) French Language
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Network Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Network Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Network Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Network Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Switch Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (51.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.89%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Network Architecture
2 13 (28.89%) Load Balancing
2 13 (28.89%) Network Design
3 12 (26.67%) Impact Assessments
3 12 (26.67%) Network Management
4 11 (24.44%) Change Management
4 11 (24.44%) Inventory Management
5 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.89%) Runbook
7 4 (8.89%) SIEM
8 3 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (6.67%) High Availability
8 3 (6.67%) Incident Management
8 3 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (6.67%) Validation
8 3 (6.67%) Zero Trust
9 2 (4.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) Perl
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (64.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (11.11%) CCIE
4 5 (11.11%) CCNP
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CCIE Wireless
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CWNA
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) GIAC
5 1 (2.22%) GSEC
5 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.22%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) SCCM
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (84.44%) Cisco
2 22 (48.89%) Palo Alto
3 20 (44.44%) Meraki
4 13 (28.89%) F5
5 12 (26.67%) CheckPoint
5 12 (26.67%) Juniper
6 11 (24.44%) Blue Coat
7 6 (13.33%) Fortinet
8 4 (8.89%) Aruba
9 3 (6.67%) ForeScout
10 2 (4.44%) AirMagnet
10 2 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.44%) Splunk
11 1 (2.22%) Arista
11 1 (2.22%) Citrix
11 1 (2.22%) Google
11 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.22%) SonicWALL