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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 467 523
Rank change year-on-year -63 +56 +115
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 87 53 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 0.80% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 21 27
10th Percentile £340 £250 £300
25th Percentile £413 £285 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -4.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £559
90th Percentile £581 £603 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £420 £460
% change year-on-year +22.62% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.02 - -

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 9,284 6,648 8,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 22.70% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,205 4,469 6,272
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 95 205
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.58 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 19 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Top 13 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 19 March 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 -64 81 £517 +11.25% 17
UK excluding London -43 67 £515 +22.62% 17
South East -25 27 £523 +5.56% 5
North of England -60 27 £515 -14.17% 5
North West -23 25 £515 -14.17% 3
Work from Home -14 20 £500 +5.26% 6
London -52 13 £550 +18.41% 3
South West -13 9 £513 -25.99% 2
West Midlands -55 4 £380 +162.07% 1
Midlands -64 4 £380 +162.07% 1
North East - 1 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £295 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.05%) Azure
2 5 (5.75%) AWS
2 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.45%) Route 53
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.30%) GCP
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.15%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.15%) IaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.15%) PaaS
5 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (81.61%) Firewall
2 54 (62.07%) WAN
3 42 (48.28%) Wireless
4 36 (41.38%) BGP
4 36 (41.38%) Cisco ISE
5 35 (40.23%) LAN
5 35 (40.23%) OSPF
6 31 (35.63%) DHCP
7 28 (32.18%) DNS
7 28 (32.18%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (31.03%) Ethernet VPN
8 27 (31.03%) VXLAN
9 24 (27.59%) Network Security
10 21 (24.14%) Junos
11 20 (22.99%) BIG-IP
11 20 (22.99%) VLAN
12 14 (16.09%) VPN
13 13 (14.94%) 802.11
14 11 (12.64%) SD-WAN
15 9 (10.34%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.15%) Git
General
1 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Military
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.15%) Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.15%) French Language
6 1 (1.15%) German Language
6 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (48.28%) Network Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) Senior
3 10 (11.49%) Firewall Specialist
3 10 (11.49%) Network Specialist
3 10 (11.49%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Lead
5 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Wireless Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Consultant
7 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Lead Network Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Network Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Network Consultant
7 3 (3.45%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.30%) Access Control Consultant
8 2 (2.30%) Wireless Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (36.78%) Data Centre
2 21 (24.14%) PKI
3 20 (22.99%) Clustering
4 11 (12.64%) IoT
5 6 (6.90%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.75%) BYOD
6 5 (5.75%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.29%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 24 (27.59%) High Availability
3 22 (25.29%) Identity Access Management
4 21 (24.14%) Observability
5 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.54%) Zero Trust
7 13 (14.94%) ITIL
8 12 (13.79%) Network Architecture
8 12 (13.79%) Network Design
8 12 (13.79%) Network Segmentation
9 11 (12.64%) Availability Management
10 10 (11.49%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (11.49%) Security Architecture
10 10 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (10.34%) Impact Assessments
11 9 (10.34%) ITSM
11 9 (10.34%) Network Management
11 9 (10.34%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
11 9 (10.34%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.60%) Python
2 1 (1.15%) Perl
2 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 32 (36.78%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
4 15 (17.24%) CCNP
4 15 (17.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (11.49%) CCNA
6 9 (10.34%) JNCIS
7 8 (9.20%) JNCIA
7 8 (9.20%) JNCIP
8 5 (5.75%) CCIE
9 4 (4.60%) Degree
10 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.30%) CWNA
12 1 (1.15%) CCIP
12 1 (1.15%) CWNE
12 1 (1.15%) CWSP
12 1 (1.15%) GIAC
12 1 (1.15%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.60%) SLA
2 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.45%) NIST
2 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (25.29%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.75%) Ansible
3 4 (4.60%) CASB
4 3 (3.45%) Terraform
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (72.41%) Cisco
2 26 (29.89%) Juniper
2 26 (29.89%) Palo Alto
3 25 (28.74%) F5
4 23 (26.44%) Aruba
4 23 (26.44%) SolarWinds
5 22 (25.29%) Meraki
5 22 (25.29%) Splunk
6 18 (20.69%) Extreme Networks
7 11 (12.64%) CheckPoint
7 11 (12.64%) ForeScout
8 10 (11.49%) Ekahau
8 10 (11.49%) Fortinet
9 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.60%) Blue Coat
11 2 (2.30%) AirMagnet
11 2 (2.30%) Arista
11 2 (2.30%) HP
11 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (2.30%) Zscaler