CWNA Contract Job Trends

CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CWNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CWNA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CWNA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,354 8,971 13,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.83% 30.34% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,460 5,638 8,415
10th Percentile £333 £285 £290
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £614 £626 £650
90th Percentile £720 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,056 464 1,037
10th Percentile £16.17 £19.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.87 £24.19 £18.32
Median hourly rate £28.50 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.23% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £82.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +25.00% -15.79%

CWNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CWNA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CWNA job vacancy trend in the UK

CWNA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CWNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CWNA

CWNA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CWNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CWNA

CWNA
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CWNA within the UK over the 6 months to 10 March 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 - 2 £500 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
London - 1 £500 - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

CWNA
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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 802.11
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CWDP
2 1 (50.00%) CWNE
2 1 (50.00%) CWSP
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GSEC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Aruba
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) AirMagnet
2 1 (50.00%) Ekahau
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) SonicWALL