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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 498 485
Rank change year-on-year -35 -13 +185
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 45 36 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.51% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 58
10th Percentile £350 £244 £406
25th Percentile £380 £259 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £452 £578
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% -21.73% +21.58%
75th Percentile £537 £488 £627
90th Percentile £575 £563 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% +29.38%

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 8,283 7,014 9,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.33% 22.03% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,497 4,460 6,425
10th Percentile £356 £355 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 83 168
10th Percentile £32.17 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £44.75 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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 15 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 15 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 -38 43 £500 +10.62% 7
UK excluding London -48 32 £425 -19.05% 8
North West -9 18 £519 -1.10% 2
North of England -27 18 £519 -1.10% 3
Work from Home +2 11 £516 +80.88% 4
London -26 11 £550 +22.22%
Midlands - 9 £380 -
West Midlands - 9 £380 -
East of England -27 2 - - 1
South East -17 1 £400 -30.43%
South West -19 1 £513 -35.94% 3
Scotland - 1 £425 -

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 5 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Route 53
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (86.67%) Firewall
2 34 (75.56%) WAN
3 23 (51.11%) Wireless
4 21 (46.67%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (44.44%) VPN
6 19 (42.22%) Cisco ISE
7 15 (33.33%) IPsec
8 14 (31.11%) Network Security
9 13 (28.89%) BGP
9 13 (28.89%) NetScaler
10 12 (26.67%) DNS
10 12 (26.67%) OSPF
11 11 (24.44%) Cisco IPT
11 11 (24.44%) DMVPN
11 11 (24.44%) SSL
11 11 (24.44%) VLAN
12 9 (20.00%) 802.11
13 8 (17.78%) SD-WAN
14 6 (13.33%) MPLS
15 5 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
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 5 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical 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 33 (73.33%) 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%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Access Control Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Network Consultant
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%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (51.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
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 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (11.11%) Validation
8 4 (8.89%) RBAC
8 4 (8.89%) Zero Trust
9 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (6.67%) High Availability
9 3 (6.67%) Incident Management
9 3 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
9 3 (6.67%) SIEM
10 2 (4.44%) Change Control
10 2 (4.44%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (64.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (11.11%) CCNP
5 4 (8.89%) CCIE
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CCNA
6 1 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) CWNA
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) GIAC
6 1 (2.22%) GSEC
6 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.22%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Ansible
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 21 (46.67%) Palo Alto
3 19 (42.22%) Meraki
4 13 (28.89%) F5
5 12 (26.67%) CheckPoint
5 12 (26.67%) Juniper
6 11 (24.44%) Blue Coat
7 5 (11.11%) Fortinet
8 4 (8.89%) Aruba
9 2 (4.44%) ForeScout
9 2 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.22%) AirMagnet
10 1 (2.22%) Arista
10 1 (2.22%) Citrix
10 1 (2.22%) Google
10 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.22%) SonicWALL
10 1 (2.22%) Splunk