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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 526 530
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +203
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 34 29 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.079% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.36% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 66
10th Percentile £357 £230 £425
25th Percentile £380 £247 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £298 £575
Median % change year-on-year +34.45% -48.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £530 £397 £625
90th Percentile £558 £553 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £525 £583
% change year-on-year -23.81% -9.95% +42.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.53% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.79 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 7,889 8,010 10,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.00% 21.86% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 5,070 7,613
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £664
90th Percentile £725 £775 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 124 190
10th Percentile £29.60 £24.19 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -15.38%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 -10 28 £400 +34.45% 12
UK excluding London -13 27 £400 -23.81% 10
North West -5 10 £525 - 2
North of England -24 10 £525 - 3
Midlands - 10 £380 -
West Midlands - 10 £380 -
Work from Home +8 5 £519 +107.40%
London +13 3 £400 +60.00% 7
South West +9 2 £513 -
East of England -20 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 £425 - 4
South East -1 1 £400 -30.43% 4

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 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (82.35%) Firewall
2 27 (79.41%) WAN
3 19 (55.88%) Wireless
4 16 (47.06%) VPN
5 15 (44.12%) Network Security
6 14 (41.18%) Cisco ISE
6 14 (41.18%) DNS
6 14 (41.18%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (32.35%) IPsec
8 10 (29.41%) Cisco IPT
8 10 (29.41%) DMVPN
8 10 (29.41%) SSL
9 9 (26.47%) NetScaler
10 7 (20.59%) 802.11
10 7 (20.59%) BGP
11 6 (17.65%) OSPF
11 6 (17.65%) VLAN
12 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
13 4 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (11.76%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) French Language
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (73.53%) Network Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Security Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Juniper Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Professional Services Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Voice Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Wireless Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Wireless Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (52.94%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Network Architecture
1 11 (32.35%) Network Design
2 10 (29.41%) Change Management
2 10 (29.41%) Inventory Management
2 10 (29.41%) Load Balancing
3 9 (26.47%) Network Management
4 8 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (11.76%) Runbook
6 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.82%) High Availability
6 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.82%) SIEM
7 2 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (5.88%) ITIL
7 2 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
8 1 (2.94%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (2.94%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Perl
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (20.59%) CCNP
5 4 (11.76%) CCIE
6 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (8.82%) Degree
7 2 (5.88%) CCNA
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.94%) CCIE Wireless
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (91.18%) Cisco
2 16 (47.06%) Palo Alto
3 15 (44.12%) Meraki
4 12 (35.29%) CheckPoint
4 12 (35.29%) F5
4 12 (35.29%) Juniper
5 10 (29.41%) Blue Coat
6 4 (11.76%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.88%) Aruba
7 2 (5.88%) ForeScout
7 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.94%) AirMagnet
8 1 (2.94%) Arista
8 1 (2.94%) Citrix
8 1 (2.94%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.94%) Google
8 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.94%) Riverbed