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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 507 556
Rank change year-on-year -78 +49 +38
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 90 48 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 0.65% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 28 6
10th Percentile £380 £343 £280
25th Percentile £417 £376 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £338
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +53.85% -32.50%
75th Percentile £580 £591 £350
90th Percentile £670 £603 £444
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £298
% change year-on-year +17.65% +42.62% -40.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £62.50 £22.64 -
25th Percentile £64.38 £29.91 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £42.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.28% +6.61% -52.97%
75th Percentile £81.75 £56.01 -
90th Percentile £90.30 £63.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £17.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +279.43% -55.53% -

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 10,136 7,346 8,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.39% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,589 4,921 5,783
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £740 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 177 230
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.70 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.15 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -70 87 £500 +5.99% 23
UK excluding London -52 60 £500 +17.65% 9
South East -45 30 £525 -4.55% 4
London -63 24 £500 -16.67% 15
Work from Home -53 19 £500 -9.09% 8
North of England -69 18 £500 -3.85%
North West -44 17 £475 -8.70%
Midlands -41 7 £378 +6.34% 1
West Midlands -56 7 £378 +6.34% 1
South West -44 3 £281 -51.92% 2
East of England -27 2 - - 1
Wales -15 1 £455 - 1
North East - 1 £500 -

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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.67%) Azure
2 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.11%) AWS
3 1 (1.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.11%) GCP
3 1 (1.11%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 58 (64.44%) Firewall
2 49 (54.44%) Wireless
3 46 (51.11%) WAN
4 41 (45.56%) DNS
5 40 (44.44%) LAN
6 38 (42.22%) Network Security
7 29 (32.22%) DHCP
8 28 (31.11%) BGP
8 28 (31.11%) VPN
9 26 (28.89%) Cisco ISE
10 25 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (25.56%) OSPF
12 19 (21.11%) VXLAN
13 18 (20.00%) VLAN
14 15 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
14 15 (16.67%) SSL
15 14 (15.56%) BIG-IP
15 14 (15.56%) WLAN
16 13 (14.44%) IPsec
16 13 (14.44%) Junos
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (4.44%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Automotive
5 4 (4.44%) Legal
6 2 (2.22%) Publishing
7 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.11%) Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Finance
7 1 (1.11%) German Language
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Police
7 1 (1.11%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 19 (21.11%) Senior
3 16 (17.78%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Firewall Specialist
4 9 (10.00%) Network Specialist
4 9 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Architect
5 7 (7.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Wireless Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (1.11%) JSON
2 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.00%) PKI
2 21 (23.33%) Data Centre
3 12 (13.33%) Clustering
4 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.44%) BYOD
6 4 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Robotics
7 3 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Windows
2 9 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) High Availability
2 17 (18.89%) Load Balancing
2 17 (18.89%) Zero Trust
3 15 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 15 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 14 (15.56%) Observability
5 13 (14.44%) Change Management
5 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (13.33%) Validation
7 11 (12.22%) ITIL
7 11 (12.22%) Migration
8 10 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.89%) Network Design
10 8 (8.89%) SIEM
11 7 (7.78%) AI
11 7 (7.78%) Analytics
11 7 (7.78%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.33%) Python
2 4 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (2.22%) Lisp
3 2 (2.22%) Perl
3 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (47.78%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (37.78%) Security Cleared
3 30 (33.33%) CCNP
4 16 (17.78%) SC Cleared
5 13 (14.44%) CCNA
6 11 (12.22%) CCIE
7 10 (11.11%) DV Cleared
8 9 (10.00%) Degree
9 7 (7.78%) JNCIP
9 7 (7.78%) JNCIS
10 4 (4.44%) CCIE Wireless
10 4 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.44%) CWDP
10 4 (4.44%) CWNA
10 4 (4.44%) CWNE
10 4 (4.44%) CWSP
10 4 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (3.33%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.22%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) NIST
2 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.33%) NCSC
2 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.22%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.22%) Firmware
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.11%) ProxySG
6 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (28.89%) FortiGate
2 13 (14.44%) Ansible
3 5 (5.56%) Terraform
4 4 (4.44%) systemd
5 3 (3.33%) CASB
5 3 (3.33%) Nessus
5 3 (3.33%) SCCM
5 3 (3.33%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.22%) TrustSec
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.11%) Grafana
7 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (76.67%) Cisco
2 29 (32.22%) F5
3 28 (31.11%) Aruba
4 25 (27.78%) Juniper
4 25 (27.78%) Palo Alto
5 20 (22.22%) SolarWinds
6 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
7 16 (17.78%) Splunk
8 14 (15.56%) Fortinet
9 13 (14.44%) CheckPoint
9 13 (14.44%) Ekahau
10 12 (13.33%) Extreme Networks
11 10 (11.11%) Meraki
11 10 (11.11%) VMware
12 9 (10.00%) Zscaler
13 8 (8.89%) ForeScout
14 7 (7.78%) Blue Coat
15 4 (4.44%) MikroTik
15 4 (4.44%) Riverbed
15 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow