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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 464 558
Rank change year-on-year -65 +94 +41
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 105 55 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.19% 0.071%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.81% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 23 12
10th Percentile £375 £285 £299
25th Percentile £417 £363 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £436
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +20.34% -12.75%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £499
90th Percentile £591 £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 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% -49.21%
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 9,793 6,763 9,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.83% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,430 4,617 6,310
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 125 272
10th Percentile £30.40 £29.14 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.88 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.89 £81.22 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 16 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 16 June 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 16 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 -63 99 £513 -4.65% 19
UK excluding London -61 78 £513 +20.59% 16
South East -25 38 £525 +8.81% 6
North of England -64 24 £425 -10.53% 6
North West -35 22 £425 -10.53% 3
Work from Home -19 21 £475 -16.30% 7
London -80 18 £500 -16.67% 5
South West -23 8 £516 -11.84%
Midlands -52 7 £378 +160.34%
West Midlands -53 7 £378 +160.34%
East of England -30 2 - - 3
North East - 1 £525 - 2
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 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.67%) Azure
1 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (4.76%) AWS
3 3 (2.86%) Route 53
3 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.90%) GCP
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.95%) Google Ads
5 1 (0.95%) IaaS
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.95%) PaaS
5 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (69.52%) Firewall
2 57 (54.29%) Wireless
3 56 (53.33%) WAN
4 50 (47.62%) LAN
5 44 (41.90%) BGP
6 42 (40.00%) OSPF
7 41 (39.05%) DHCP
7 41 (39.05%) DNS
8 39 (37.14%) Network Security
9 37 (35.24%) Cisco ISE
9 37 (35.24%) VXLAN
10 33 (31.43%) Ethernet VPN
11 26 (24.76%) BIG-IP
11 26 (24.76%) Junos
12 25 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (19.05%) VLAN
14 19 (18.10%) VPN
15 16 (15.24%) 802.11
15 16 (15.24%) SD-WAN
16 13 (12.38%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Git
2 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.76%) Military
4 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.81%) Finance
5 2 (1.90%) Legal
5 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.95%) Banking
6 1 (0.95%) German Language
6 1 (0.95%) Police
6 1 (0.95%) Polish Language
6 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (47.62%) Network Engineer
2 18 (17.14%) Senior
3 15 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (13.33%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (13.33%) Network Specialist
5 9 (8.57%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Wireless Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Architect
8 5 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Lead
8 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.81%) Consultant
9 4 (3.81%) Network Consultant
9 4 (3.81%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Product Owner
10 3 (2.86%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.95%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.38%) PKI
2 32 (30.48%) Data Centre
3 24 (22.86%) Clustering
4 11 (10.48%) IoT
5 10 (9.52%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.76%) BYOD
6 5 (4.76%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.67%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.90%) Android
4 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) High Availability
2 28 (26.67%) Load Balancing
3 26 (24.76%) Identity Access Management
3 26 (24.76%) Zero Trust
4 25 (23.81%) Observability
5 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.19%) ITIL
7 16 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (11.43%) Network Segmentation
9 12 (11.43%) Security Architecture
9 12 (11.43%) SIEM
10 11 (10.48%) Availability Management
10 11 (10.48%) Validation
11 10 (9.52%) Migration
12 9 (8.57%) ITSM
12 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.57%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (8.57%) Risk Assessment
12 9 (8.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (1.90%) Lisp
3 1 (0.95%) Perl
3 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (47.62%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (43.81%) Security Cleared
3 29 (27.62%) CCNP
4 20 (19.05%) DV Cleared
5 15 (14.29%) CCNA
5 15 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 11 (10.48%) CCIE
7 9 (8.57%) JNCIS
8 8 (7.62%) Degree
8 8 (7.62%) JNCIA
8 8 (7.62%) JNCIP
9 4 (3.81%) CCIE Wireless
9 4 (3.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.81%) CWDP
9 4 (3.81%) CWNA
9 4 (3.81%) CWNE
9 4 (3.81%) CWSP
9 4 (3.81%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) NIST
2 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.81%) SLA
3 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.95%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.90%) Firmware
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.95%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (29.52%) FortiGate
2 8 (7.62%) Ansible
3 4 (3.81%) CASB
4 3 (2.86%) Terraform
5 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.95%) Grafana
6 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.95%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 76 (72.38%) Cisco
2 34 (32.38%) F5
3 32 (30.48%) Aruba
4 30 (28.57%) Juniper
4 30 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 27 (25.71%) Splunk
6 23 (21.90%) Palo Alto
7 22 (20.95%) Extreme Networks
8 17 (16.19%) ForeScout
9 15 (14.29%) Ekahau
9 15 (14.29%) Fortinet
10 14 (13.33%) Meraki
11 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
12 10 (9.52%) CheckPoint
13 7 (6.67%) VMware
14 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
15 3 (2.86%) Arista
15 3 (2.86%) Blue Coat
15 3 (2.86%) Zscaler
16 2 (1.90%) Becrypt