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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 463 538
Rank change year-on-year -68 +75 +75
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 100 55 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 0.82% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 23 13
10th Percentile £375 £257 £298
25th Percentile £417 £344 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +27.27% -17.50%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £490
90th Percentile £584 £603 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £298
% change year-on-year +20.59% +42.62% -40.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £44.28 £22.64 -
25th Percentile £48.68 £29.91 -
Median hourly rate £57.02 £42.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.70% - -
75th Percentile £65.01 £56.01 -
90th Percentile £69.20 £63.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.02 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year +220.50% - -

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 9,605 6,671 9,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.63% 22.90% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,310 4,572 6,280
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 117 257
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.18 £21.89
25th Percentile £52.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.15 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 June 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 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK

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 1 June 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 -55 94 £514 -4.42% 13
UK excluding London -48 74 £513 +20.59% 10
South East -31 35 £525 +8.81% 4
North of England -65 25 £437 -16.71% 4
North West -38 23 £437 -16.71% 2
Work from Home -36 18 £475 -16.30% 5
London -66 18 £550 -8.33% 4
South West -23 8 £516 -11.84%
Midlands -47 7 £378 +160.34% 1
West Midlands -49 7 £378 +160.34% 1
North East - 1 £525 - 1
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 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.00%) Azure
2 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (4.00%) AWS
4 3 (3.00%) Route 53
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.00%) IaaS
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.00%) PaaS
6 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (70.00%) Firewall
2 55 (55.00%) WAN
3 53 (53.00%) Wireless
4 48 (48.00%) LAN
5 42 (42.00%) BGP
5 42 (42.00%) OSPF
6 40 (40.00%) DHCP
6 40 (40.00%) DNS
7 37 (37.00%) VXLAN
8 36 (36.00%) Cisco ISE
9 34 (34.00%) Network Security
10 33 (33.00%) Ethernet VPN
11 26 (26.00%) BIG-IP
11 26 (26.00%) Junos
11 26 (26.00%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (20.00%) VLAN
13 18 (18.00%) VPN
14 16 (16.00%) 802.11
15 15 (15.00%) SD-WAN
16 12 (12.00%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.00%) Git
General
1 10 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.00%) Finance
3 5 (5.00%) Military
4 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.00%) German Language
6 1 (1.00%) Legal
6 1 (1.00%) Police
6 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (46.00%) Network Engineer
2 18 (18.00%) Senior
3 15 (15.00%) 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%) Wireless Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Consultant
7 5 (5.00%) Lead
7 5 (5.00%) Network Consultant
7 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Lead Network Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (34.00%) PKI
2 32 (32.00%) Data Centre
3 24 (24.00%) Clustering
4 11 (11.00%) IoT
5 8 (8.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.00%) BYOD
7 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
10 1 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) High Availability
2 28 (28.00%) Load Balancing
3 26 (26.00%) Identity Access Management
4 24 (24.00%) Observability
5 23 (23.00%) Zero Trust
6 17 (17.00%) ITIL
6 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (12.00%) Network Segmentation
8 12 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (11.00%) Availability Management
10 10 (10.00%) Security Architecture
10 10 (10.00%) SIEM
10 10 (10.00%) Validation
11 9 (9.00%) ITSM
11 9 (9.00%) Mentoring
11 9 (9.00%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (9.00%) Risk Assessment
11 9 (9.00%) Service Management
12 8 (8.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.00%) Python
2 2 (2.00%) Lisp
3 1 (1.00%) Perl
3 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (47.00%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (46.00%) Security Cleared
3 26 (26.00%) CCNP
4 20 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
6 13 (13.00%) CCNA
7 11 (11.00%) CCIE
8 9 (9.00%) JNCIS
9 8 (8.00%) Degree
9 8 (8.00%) JNCIA
9 8 (8.00%) JNCIP
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
2 4 (4.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.00%) Firmware
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) ProxySG
4 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (28.00%) FortiGate
2 7 (7.00%) Ansible
3 4 (4.00%) CASB
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.00%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 73 (73.00%) Cisco
2 33 (33.00%) F5
3 31 (31.00%) Aruba
4 30 (30.00%) Juniper
5 29 (29.00%) SolarWinds
6 27 (27.00%) Splunk
7 22 (22.00%) Extreme Networks
7 22 (22.00%) Palo Alto
8 17 (17.00%) ForeScout
9 15 (15.00%) Ekahau
10 14 (14.00%) Fortinet
10 14 (14.00%) Meraki
11 10 (10.00%) CheckPoint
12 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
12 7 (7.00%) VMware
13 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
14 3 (3.00%) Blue Coat
15 2 (2.00%) Arista
15 2 (2.00%) Becrypt
15 2 (2.00%) HP