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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 535 574
Rank change year-on-year +18 +39 +197
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 40 26 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.068% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.30% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 8 59
10th Percentile £351 £230 £393
25th Percentile £380 £247 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £298 £550
Median % change year-on-year +38.66% -45.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £350 £627
90th Percentile £601 £406 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £400 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -30.43% +37.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.64 - -
25th Percentile £29.91 - -
Median hourly rate £42.65 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% - -
75th Percentile £56.01 - -
90th Percentile £63.65 - -
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 7,340 8,544 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 22.40% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,878 5,592 8,032
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 186 178
10th Percentile £31.15 £25.60 £35.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.40 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.22% -4.78%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 802.1X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 802.1X 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 15 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 +29 33 £400 +34.45% 15
UK excluding London +18 27 £380 -5.00% 11
West Midlands - 10 £380 - 3
Midlands - 10 £380 - 3
London +16 7 £500 +75.44% 5
North West -6 7 £519 -1.10%
North of England -10 7 £519 -1.10%
Work from Home +25 6 £538 +115.00% 12
South East +25 4 £550 +100.00% 5
South West +29 3 £585 - 2
East of England +4 2 £350 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

802.1X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) Akamai
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 26 (65.00%) Firewall
1 26 (65.00%) Wireless
2 23 (57.50%) WAN
3 19 (47.50%) Network Security
4 16 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (37.50%) VPN
6 13 (32.50%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (32.50%) DNS
7 12 (30.00%) SSL
8 11 (27.50%) IPsec
9 10 (25.00%) 802.11
9 10 (25.00%) VLAN
10 9 (22.50%) Cisco IPT
10 9 (22.50%) DMVPN
11 8 (20.00%) OSPF
12 7 (17.50%) BGP
12 7 (17.50%) NetScaler
13 5 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
13 5 (12.50%) SD-WAN
14 4 (10.00%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Wireless Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Cisco Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Cisco Network Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Network Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Principal Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.00%) CMDB
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
1 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.50%) CatOS
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Network Design
2 10 (25.00%) Change Management
3 9 (22.50%) Inventory Management
3 9 (22.50%) Network Architecture
4 8 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 8 (20.00%) Network Management
5 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.00%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (7.50%) Business Continuity
7 3 (7.50%) Data Collection
7 3 (7.50%) High Availability
7 3 (7.50%) ITIL
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.50%) Runbook
7 3 (7.50%) SIEM
8 2 (5.00%) BCP
8 2 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.00%) Information Security
8 2 (5.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Lisp
3 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (20.00%) CCNP
4 8 (20.00%) Degree
5 7 (17.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.50%) CCIE
7 2 (5.00%) CCNA
7 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.50%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (2.50%) CCSE
8 1 (2.50%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) OPNET
2 2 (5.00%) SCCM
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (90.00%) Cisco
2 16 (40.00%) Juniper
2 16 (40.00%) Meraki
3 13 (32.50%) Palo Alto
4 11 (27.50%) CheckPoint
5 10 (25.00%) F5
6 9 (22.50%) Blue Coat
7 6 (15.00%) AirMagnet
7 6 (15.00%) Ekahau
7 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 5 (12.50%) Aruba
9 4 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (10.00%) SolarWinds
10 3 (7.50%) Fortinet
11 2 (5.00%) Dell KACE
11 2 (5.00%) ForeScout
11 2 (5.00%) Splunk
11 2 (5.00%) Ubiquiti
12 1 (2.50%) Arista
12 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow