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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 525 539
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 +182
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 35 30 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.082% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 0.37% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 63
10th Percentile £358 £233 £425
25th Percentile £380 £250 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £320 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.91% -44.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £529 £538 £627
90th Percentile £556 £635 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -27.27% -6.38% +42.42%
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 8,013 8,018 10,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.92% 21.83% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,339 5,074 7,471
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 116 186
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.45 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.94 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.20% -16.11%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -18 29 £400 +25.00% 38
UK excluding London -26 27 £400 -27.27% 36
North West -16 10 £525 - 2
North of England -24 10 £525 - 4
Midlands - 10 £380 - 3
West Midlands - 10 £380 - 1
Work from Home +12 5 £519 +107.40% 18
London -5 4 £438 +75.00% 20
South West +4 2 £513 -35.94%
East of England -19 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £425 - 12
South East +2 1 £400 -30.43% 19

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 2 (5.71%) Azure
1 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 29 (82.86%) Firewall
2 27 (77.14%) WAN
3 20 (57.14%) Wireless
4 17 (48.57%) VPN
5 16 (45.71%) Network Security
6 15 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
7 14 (40.00%) DNS
8 11 (31.43%) IPsec
9 10 (28.57%) Cisco IPT
9 10 (28.57%) DMVPN
9 10 (28.57%) SSL
10 9 (25.71%) NetScaler
11 8 (22.86%) 802.11
11 8 (22.86%) BGP
12 7 (20.00%) OSPF
12 7 (20.00%) VLAN
13 5 (14.29%) SD-WAN
14 4 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (11.43%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 7 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.86%) French Language
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Security Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Professional Services Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Network Architecture
1 11 (31.43%) Network Design
2 10 (28.57%) Change Management
2 10 (28.57%) Inventory Management
2 10 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 9 (25.71%) Network Management
4 8 (22.86%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (11.43%) High Availability
5 4 (11.43%) Runbook
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) SIEM
7 2 (5.71%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.71%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (5.71%) Migration
7 2 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (5.71%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (5.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Perl
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (22.86%) CCNP
5 5 (14.29%) CCIE
6 3 (8.57%) CCNA
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (8.57%) Degree
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.86%) CCIE Wireless
7 1 (2.86%) CISSP
7 1 (2.86%) CWNA
7 1 (2.86%) GIAC
7 1 (2.86%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (91.43%) Cisco
2 16 (45.71%) Meraki
2 16 (45.71%) Palo Alto
3 12 (34.29%) CheckPoint
3 12 (34.29%) F5
3 12 (34.29%) Juniper
4 10 (28.57%) Blue Coat
5 4 (11.43%) SolarWinds
6 3 (8.57%) Aruba
6 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.71%) AirMagnet
7 2 (5.71%) ForeScout
7 2 (5.71%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.86%) Arista
8 1 (2.86%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.86%) Riverbed
8 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.86%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.86%) Splunk