802.1X Contracts

IEEE 802.1X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring 802.1X skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 802.1X over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 560 614
Rank change year-on-year +85 +54 +185
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 55 27 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.062% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.29% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 9 47
10th Percentile £285 £291 £345
25th Percentile £363 £313 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £490 £600
90th Percentile £603 £525 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £298 £500
% change year-on-year +42.62% -40.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £22.64 - £76.60
25th Percentile £29.91 - £76.75
Median hourly rate £42.65 £40.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -49.21% +142.31%
75th Percentile £56.01 - £82.01
90th Percentile £63.65 - £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.79 £40.00 £78.50
% change year-on-year -55.53% -49.04% +141.54%

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 802.1X.

Daily rate trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 802.1X.

Hourly rate trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Top 13 Contract 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 July 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 +84 47 £538 +30.30% 74
UK excluding London +64 34 £425 +42.62% 40
London +49 17 £600 +26.32% 44
North West +25 17 £475 - 6
North of England +24 17 £475 - 12
Work from Home +42 8 £568 +48.85% 35
South East +50 5 £483 +68.41% 6
South West +39 4 £585 +27.17% 3
Wales +8 3 £290 - 4
East of England +22 2 £350 - 1
West Midlands +11 2 £145 - 6
Midlands +7 2 £145 - 6
Scotland - 1 - - 9

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 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Akamai
4 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
4 2 (3.64%) Serverless
5 1 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 36 (65.45%) Firewall
2 26 (47.27%) Network Security
2 26 (47.27%) WAN
3 25 (45.45%) OSPF
3 25 (45.45%) Wi-Fi
4 24 (43.64%) BGP
5 23 (41.82%) Wireless
6 21 (38.18%) Cisco ISE
7 17 (30.91%) Cisco IOS
7 17 (30.91%) NetScaler
8 15 (27.27%) EIGRP
9 12 (21.82%) HSRP
10 11 (20.00%) RIP
10 11 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
11 10 (18.18%) 802.11
11 10 (18.18%) IPsec
11 10 (18.18%) VLAN
11 10 (18.18%) Wireshark
12 9 (16.36%) SD-WAN
13 8 (14.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
General
1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (83.64%) Network Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Senior
4 6 (10.91%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Deployment Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Wireless Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Cisco Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Cisco Network Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) HTML
1 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.45%) PKI
3 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.82%) FMCG
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) CatOS
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Unix
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Network Design
2 20 (36.36%) Network Management
3 17 (30.91%) Load Balancing
4 14 (25.45%) Network Architecture
5 12 (21.82%) Network Monitoring
6 11 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 11 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
7 10 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
7 10 (18.18%) Service Management
8 7 (12.73%) High Availability
8 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.91%) ITIL
10 5 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.09%) Network Optimisation
10 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 4 (7.27%) Change Management
11 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 3 (5.45%) B2B
12 3 (5.45%) Cryptography
12 3 (5.45%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) Python
2 3 (5.45%) Perl
2 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.64%) SQL
4 1 (1.82%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 25 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (43.64%) CCNP
3 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
4 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 14 (25.45%) Degree
6 11 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.27%) CCIE
7 4 (7.27%) CCNA
7 4 (7.27%) CCSE
8 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.82%) CCDP
9 1 (1.82%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Cacti
2 3 (5.45%) OPNET
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (3.64%) Terraform
4 1 (1.82%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.82%) Netcool
Vendors
1 52 (94.55%) Cisco
2 22 (40.00%) Meraki
3 20 (36.36%) Palo Alto
4 14 (25.45%) Juniper
5 10 (18.18%) SolarWinds
6 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
7 6 (10.91%) CheckPoint
8 5 (9.09%) AirMagnet
8 5 (9.09%) Ekahau
9 4 (7.27%) Arista
9 4 (7.27%) Aruba
9 4 (7.27%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (7.27%) Fortinet
10 3 (5.45%) McAfee
10 3 (5.45%) Riverbed
10 3 (5.45%) Splunk
10 3 (5.45%) Zscaler
11 2 (3.64%) Dell KACE
11 2 (3.64%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.64%) Ubiquiti