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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 504 548
Rank change year-on-year -56 +44 +56
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 100 51 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.69% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 28 6
10th Percentile £377 £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 £581 £591 £350
90th Percentile £670 £603 £444
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £472 £298
% change year-on-year +7.31% +58.31% -39.55%
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 10,118 7,367 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 22.37% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,943 5,790
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £632 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 174 243
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.48 £22.55
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -41 98 £500 +5.99% 23
UK excluding London -66 70 £506 +7.31% 10
South East -25 41 £525 -4.55% 5
London -68 24 £500 -2.44% 14
North of England -56 19 £475 -8.70% 1
Work from Home -41 18 £500 -9.09% 9
North West -40 17 £475 -8.70%
West Midlands -43 7 £378 +7.09%
Midlands -53 7 £378 +7.09%
East of England -19 2 - - 2
South West -40 2 £281 -51.92% 1
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 6 (6.00%) Azure
2 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.00%) AWS
3 1 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.00%) GCP
3 1 (1.00%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 71 (71.00%) Firewall
2 59 (59.00%) WAN
3 53 (53.00%) LAN
4 52 (52.00%) DNS
5 48 (48.00%) Wireless
6 40 (40.00%) BGP
6 40 (40.00%) DHCP
7 38 (38.00%) Cisco ISE
7 38 (38.00%) Network Security
8 35 (35.00%) OSPF
9 31 (31.00%) VXLAN
10 27 (27.00%) Ethernet VPN
11 26 (26.00%) BIG-IP
11 26 (26.00%) VPN
12 25 (25.00%) Junos
13 24 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (18.00%) VLAN
15 14 (14.00%) SSL
15 14 (14.00%) WLAN
16 12 (12.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Git
2 4 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.00%) Automotive
5 4 (4.00%) Legal
5 4 (4.00%) Military
6 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Finance
7 1 (1.00%) German Language
7 1 (1.00%) Law
7 1 (1.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (55.00%) 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 9 (9.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Wireless Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) REST
2 1 (1.00%) JSON
2 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (36.00%) PKI
2 31 (31.00%) Data Centre
3 24 (24.00%) Clustering
4 6 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.00%) BYOD
5 5 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.00%) Robotics
7 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.00%) Windows
2 9 (9.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) High Availability
2 29 (29.00%) Load Balancing
3 26 (26.00%) Identity Access Management
4 25 (25.00%) Observability
5 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.00%) Zero Trust
7 16 (16.00%) ITIL
8 15 (15.00%) Project Delivery
9 12 (12.00%) Change Management
9 12 (12.00%) Migration
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%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (9.00%) Service Management
13 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.00%) Network Design
13 8 (8.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.00%) 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%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (52.00%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (43.00%) Security Cleared
3 31 (31.00%) CCNP
4 17 (17.00%) DV Cleared
5 15 (15.00%) SC Cleared
6 14 (14.00%) CCNA
7 11 (11.00%) 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 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (11.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.00%) Firmware
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.00%) ProxySG
7 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (39.00%) FortiGate
2 13 (13.00%) Ansible
3 5 (5.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) systemd
5 3 (3.00%) CASB
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 Prime
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (81.00%) Cisco
2 40 (40.00%) F5
3 36 (36.00%) Juniper
4 32 (32.00%) SolarWinds
5 29 (29.00%) Aruba
6 28 (28.00%) Splunk
7 25 (25.00%) Palo Alto
8 22 (22.00%) Extreme Networks
9 17 (17.00%) Microsoft
10 15 (15.00%) Fortinet
11 13 (13.00%) Ekahau
12 12 (12.00%) CheckPoint
13 10 (10.00%) VMware
14 9 (9.00%) Meraki
15 8 (8.00%) ForeScout
15 8 (8.00%) Zscaler
16 6 (6.00%) Blue Coat
17 4 (4.00%) MikroTik
17 4 (4.00%) Riverbed
17 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow