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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 527 517
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +191
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 37 39 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.50% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 54
10th Percentile £352 £241 £416
25th Percentile £380 £277 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £454 £587
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -22.62% +20.98%
75th Percentile £530 £488 £627
90th Percentile £563 £573 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -22.73% -7.37% +31.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 8,116 7,764 10,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.56% 21.76% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,385 4,890 7,179
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 113 183
10th Percentile £30.30 £22.00 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +19.13% -15.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.35 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.38% +23.81% -19.23%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -36 32 £400 -11.89% 17
UK excluding London -34 28 £425 -22.73% 15
North West -14 13 £525 - 3
North of England -39 13 £525 - 3
West Midlands - 10 £380 - 1
Midlands - 10 £380 - 1
Work from Home -3 5 £519 +81.93% 10
London -1 4 £438 +8.83% 5
East of England -20 2 - - 3
South East -2 1 £400 -30.43% 7
South West -2 1 £513 -35.94% 2
Scotland - 1 £425 -

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 (2.70%) AWS
1 1 (2.70%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (83.78%) Firewall
2 30 (81.08%) WAN
3 19 (51.35%) Wireless
4 18 (48.65%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (45.95%) VPN
6 16 (43.24%) Cisco ISE
7 15 (40.54%) DNS
7 15 (40.54%) Network Security
8 12 (32.43%) IPsec
8 12 (32.43%) NetScaler
9 11 (29.73%) Cisco IPT
9 11 (29.73%) DMVPN
9 11 (29.73%) SSL
10 7 (18.92%) 802.11
10 7 (18.92%) BGP
11 6 (16.22%) OSPF
11 6 (16.22%) VLAN
12 5 (13.51%) SD-WAN
13 4 (10.81%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (10.81%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
1 8 (21.62%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.70%) French Language
Job Titles
1 28 (75.68%) Network Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Security Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Principal Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Professional Services Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (59.46%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.41%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Network Architecture
1 14 (37.84%) Network Design
2 12 (32.43%) Load Balancing
2 12 (32.43%) Network Management
3 11 (29.73%) Change Management
3 11 (29.73%) Impact Assessments
3 11 (29.73%) Inventory Management
4 4 (10.81%) Runbook
5 3 (8.11%) High Availability
6 2 (5.41%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.41%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (5.41%) Migration
6 2 (5.41%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (5.41%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (5.41%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.41%) SIEM
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) Perl
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (67.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (64.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (18.92%) CCNP
5 5 (13.51%) CCIE
6 3 (8.11%) CCNA
7 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.41%) Degree
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.70%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (2.70%) CISSP
8 1 (2.70%) CWNA
8 1 (2.70%) GIAC
8 1 (2.70%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (91.89%) Cisco
2 18 (48.65%) Meraki
3 17 (45.95%) Palo Alto
4 13 (35.14%) CheckPoint
4 13 (35.14%) F5
4 13 (35.14%) Juniper
5 11 (29.73%) Blue Coat
6 3 (8.11%) Aruba
6 3 (8.11%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.41%) AirMagnet
7 2 (5.41%) ForeScout
7 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.70%) Citrix
8 1 (2.70%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.70%) Google
8 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.70%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.70%) Splunk