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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 508 525
Rank change year-on-year -96 +17 +60
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 75 45 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 0.54% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 29 8
10th Percentile £380 £345 £230
25th Percentile £417 £380 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £519 £298
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +74.29% -43.33%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £350
90th Percentile £672 £603 £406
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £403 £400
% change year-on-year +13.04% +0.63% -24.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £63.75 £22.64 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £29.91 -
Median hourly rate £96.00 £42.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.11% +6.61% -
75th Percentile - £56.01 -
90th Percentile - £63.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £96.00 £17.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +439.63% -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 11,701 8,291 9,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.51% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,710 5,586 6,363
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 186 195
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.50 £26.16
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.88 £79.35 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -90 71 £463 +8.82% 31
UK excluding London -81 47 £455 +13.04% 17
South East -43 26 £525 -4.55% 4
London -60 21 £500 -16.67% 19
Work from Home -36 18 £500 -9.09% 17
North of England -54 12 £420 -19.23% 1
North West -42 11 £419 -19.42%
Midlands -52 6 £375 +2.04% 2
West Midlands -52 6 £375 +2.04% 1
East of England -20 3 £475 +35.71% 4
South West -41 2 £350 -40.17% 2
North East - 1 £500 -
Wales - 1 £455 - 2

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:

Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.33%) AWS
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (60.00%) Firewall
2 41 (54.67%) Wireless
3 38 (50.67%) DNS
4 37 (49.33%) WAN
5 35 (46.67%) Network Security
6 32 (42.67%) VPN
7 28 (37.33%) LAN
8 24 (32.00%) DHCP
9 23 (30.67%) BGP
10 20 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
11 18 (24.00%) OSPF
11 18 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (22.67%) SSL
13 15 (20.00%) IPsec
14 14 (18.67%) VLAN
14 14 (18.67%) VXLAN
15 13 (17.33%) WLAN
16 10 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
16 10 (13.33%) SD-WAN
16 10 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.33%) Automotive
4 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Legal
5 2 (2.67%) Publishing
6 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.33%) Finance
6 1 (1.33%) German Language
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Police
6 1 (1.33%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (58.67%) Network Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Senior
3 14 (18.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Security Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Architect
6 8 (10.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Firewall Specialist
8 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Network Specialist
9 5 (6.67%) Wireless Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Business Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) Terraform
2 3 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (1.33%) JSON
3 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.00%) PKI
2 17 (22.67%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.33%) Clustering
4 6 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.67%) Operational Technology
6 4 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.33%) Robotics
7 3 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.33%) BYOD
8 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.33%) Windows
2 9 (12.00%) Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.33%) High Availability
2 14 (18.67%) Change Management
2 14 (18.67%) Zero Trust
3 13 (17.33%) Project Delivery
4 12 (16.00%) Load Balancing
4 12 (16.00%) Validation
5 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (12.00%) Migration
7 8 (10.67%) AI
7 8 (10.67%) Observability
7 8 (10.67%) Runbook
8 7 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (8.00%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.00%) ITIL
9 6 (8.00%) Network Design
9 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.67%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) Python
2 4 (5.33%) Bash
3 2 (2.67%) Lisp
3 2 (2.67%) Perl
3 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.33%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (42.67%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (41.33%) Security Cleared
3 25 (33.33%) CCNP
4 15 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (13.33%) CCIE
5 10 (13.33%) DV Cleared
6 7 (9.33%) CCNA
7 6 (8.00%) Degree
8 5 (6.67%) JNCIP
8 5 (6.67%) JNCIS
9 4 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (5.33%) CWNA
9 4 (5.33%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (4.00%) CCIE Wireless
10 3 (4.00%) CWDP
10 3 (4.00%) CWNE
10 3 (4.00%) CWSP
11 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.67%) CCIE Security
12 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) NIST
2 5 (6.67%) NCSC
3 4 (5.33%) JSP 440
4 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.67%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.67%) Firmware
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.33%) ProxySG
6 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) FortiGate
2 13 (17.33%) Ansible
3 4 (5.33%) systemd
4 3 (4.00%) Nessus
4 3 (4.00%) SCCM
4 3 (4.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.67%) TrustSec
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.33%) Grafana
6 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (78.67%) Cisco
2 26 (34.67%) F5
3 22 (29.33%) Juniper
3 22 (29.33%) Palo Alto
4 19 (25.33%) Aruba
5 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
6 15 (20.00%) SolarWinds
7 13 (17.33%) Fortinet
8 12 (16.00%) Zscaler
9 11 (14.67%) CheckPoint
10 10 (13.33%) Splunk
10 10 (13.33%) VMware
11 9 (12.00%) Blue Coat
12 7 (9.33%) Ekahau
12 7 (9.33%) Extreme Networks
12 7 (9.33%) ForeScout
12 7 (9.33%) Meraki
13 4 (5.33%) MikroTik
13 4 (5.33%) Riverbed
14 3 (4.00%) Citrix