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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 499 549
Rank change year-on-year -69 +50 +69
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 100 60 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.81% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 28 4
10th Percentile £377 £343 £273
25th Percentile £417 £363 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £312
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +36.44% -37.70%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £341
90th Percentile £670 £603 £346
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £420 £287
% change year-on-year +22.02% +46.60% -42.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £47.32 £22.64 -
25th Percentile £56.28 £29.91 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.42% +6.61% -51.09%
75th Percentile £68.62 £56.01 -
90th Percentile £70.65 £63.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £17.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +265.37% -55.53% -49.04%

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 10,248 7,420 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 22.56% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,681 5,013 5,855
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £635 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 163 246
10th Percentile £28.33 £30.05 £23.28
25th Percentile £41.59 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.36 £79.74 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £58.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -4.01% +1.04%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -69 96 £500 +17.65% 15
UK excluding London -57 72 £513 +22.02% 9
South East -27 42 £525 +8.81% 5
London -67 20 £500 -2.44% 6
North of England -68 19 £475 -0.05% 1
Work from Home -44 18 £500 -11.89% 4
North West -52 17 £475 -0.05%
Midlands -52 7 £378 +7.09%
West Midlands -62 7 £378 +7.09%
South West -40 3 £288 -50.85%
East of England -16 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £295 - 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 (3.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.00%) Azure
2 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.00%) AWS
3 2 (2.00%) GCP
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.00%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.00%) IaaS
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.00%) PaaS
4 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (71.00%) Firewall
2 58 (58.00%) WAN
3 52 (52.00%) DNS
3 52 (52.00%) LAN
4 49 (49.00%) Wireless
5 43 (43.00%) DHCP
6 39 (39.00%) BGP
7 38 (38.00%) Network Security
8 37 (37.00%) Cisco ISE
9 36 (36.00%) OSPF
10 32 (32.00%) VXLAN
11 28 (28.00%) Ethernet VPN
12 27 (27.00%) VPN
13 26 (26.00%) BIG-IP
14 25 (25.00%) Junos
15 23 (23.00%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (18.00%) VLAN
17 13 (13.00%) IPsec
17 13 (13.00%) SSL
17 13 (13.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Git
2 4 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.00%) Automotive
5 4 (4.00%) Military
6 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (1.00%) Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Finance
8 1 (1.00%) German Language
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Police
8 1 (1.00%) Polish Language
8 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (52.00%) Network Engineer
2 23 (23.00%) Senior
3 20 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (14.00%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (14.00%) Network Specialist
5 8 (8.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Architect
7 6 (6.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Network Security Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Wireless Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (36.00%) PKI
2 32 (32.00%) Data Centre
3 24 (24.00%) Clustering
4 7 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.00%) BYOD
6 5 (5.00%) Operational Technology
6 5 (5.00%) Security Posture
7 4 (4.00%) IoT
7 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.00%) Robotics
8 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.00%) Windows
2 9 (9.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.00%) Android
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) High Availability
2 29 (29.00%) Load Balancing
3 26 (26.00%) Identity Access Management
4 25 (25.00%) Observability
5 20 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.00%) ITIL
8 13 (13.00%) Migration
8 13 (13.00%) Project Delivery
9 12 (12.00%) Change Management
10 11 (11.00%) Validation
11 10 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (9.00%) Availability Management
12 9 (9.00%) ITSM
12 9 (9.00%) Service Management
12 9 (9.00%) SIEM
13 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (8.00%) Network Design
13 8 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (8.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.00%) Python
2 4 (4.00%) Bash
3 2 (2.00%) Lisp
3 2 (2.00%) Perl
3 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (53.00%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (44.00%) Security Cleared
3 32 (32.00%) CCNP
4 18 (18.00%) DV Cleared
5 15 (15.00%) CCNA
5 15 (15.00%) SC Cleared
6 12 (12.00%) CCIE
7 11 (11.00%) JNCIP
7 11 (11.00%) JNCIS
8 9 (9.00%) Degree
9 7 (7.00%) JNCIA
10 4 (4.00%) CCIE Wireless
10 4 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.00%) CWDP
10 4 (4.00%) CWNA
10 4 (4.00%) CWNE
10 4 (4.00%) CWSP
10 4 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (2.00%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) NIST
2 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.00%) NCSC
4 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.00%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.00%) Firmware
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.00%) ProxySG
6 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (37.00%) FortiGate
2 12 (12.00%) Ansible
3 6 (6.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) CASB
4 4 (4.00%) systemd
5 3 (3.00%) Nessus
5 3 (3.00%) SCCM
5 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.00%) TrustSec
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (79.00%) Cisco
2 38 (38.00%) F5
3 36 (36.00%) Juniper
4 31 (31.00%) SolarWinds
5 28 (28.00%) Aruba
6 27 (27.00%) Splunk
7 24 (24.00%) Palo Alto
8 22 (22.00%) Extreme Networks
9 18 (18.00%) Microsoft
10 14 (14.00%) Fortinet
11 13 (13.00%) CheckPoint
11 13 (13.00%) Ekahau
12 10 (10.00%) ForeScout
12 10 (10.00%) Meraki
12 10 (10.00%) VMware
13 9 (9.00%) Zscaler
14 6 (6.00%) Blue Coat
15 4 (4.00%) Arista
15 4 (4.00%) MikroTik
15 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow