Wi-Fi Contracts

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 284 305
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +66
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 263 360 507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.83% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.03% 6.38% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 188 329
10th Percentile £206 £185 £160
25th Percentile £249 £250 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £385 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -9.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £536 £494 £519
90th Percentile £588 £596 £582
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £338 £430
% change year-on-year +3.70% -21.51% +14.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 61 40
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.87 £16.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -10.81% +12.12%
75th Percentile £21.46 £21.37 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.00 £40.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.29 £16.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.33% -10.81% +19.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wi-Fi falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -1 248 £431 +19.79% 248
UK excluding London -19 149 £350 +3.70% 189
London +53 100 £475 +18.75% 71
North of England +31 58 £338 -6.25% 41
Work from Home +23 53 £475 +9.83% 117
North West +35 46 £413 -9.84% 24
East of England +6 35 £245 -18.33% 24
South East +6 30 £375 +1.01% 57
Midlands +10 11 £200 -42.86% 30
West Midlands +8 11 £200 -54.29% 21
Yorkshire -4 8 £243 -25.38% 11
South West +10 6 £319 +23.19% 22
Scotland +10 6 £425 +30.77% 12
Wales +6 3 £400 +135.29% 4
North East -3 3 £600 +41.18% 8

Wi-Fi
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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (14.07%) SharePoint
2 31 (11.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.52%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (15.21%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (11.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (10.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 99 (37.64%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (15.59%) Azure
3 27 (10.27%) OneDrive
4 16 (6.08%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.18%) AWS
6 8 (3.04%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.52%) IaaS
7 4 (1.52%) SaaS
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.14%) Datadog
8 3 (1.14%) GCP
8 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.14%) PaaS
8 3 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.38%) Asana
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.38%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.38%) Slack
10 1 (0.38%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 107 (40.68%) Firewall
2 94 (35.74%) WAN
3 73 (27.76%) LAN
4 48 (18.25%) VPN
5 44 (16.73%) DHCP
5 44 (16.73%) DNS
6 42 (15.97%) Wireless
7 37 (14.07%) VLAN
8 33 (12.55%) Network Security
9 25 (9.51%) VoIP
10 24 (9.13%) Cisco ISE
11 22 (8.37%) BGP
11 22 (8.37%) SD-WAN
12 20 (7.60%) OSPF
13 18 (6.84%) NetScaler
14 15 (5.70%) Internet
14 15 (5.70%) IPsec
14 15 (5.70%) TCP/IP
15 13 (4.94%) WLAN
16 12 (4.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.14%) InfluxDB
1 3 (1.14%) Looker
1 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.76%) eggPlant
2 2 (0.76%) KGDB
3 1 (0.38%) Gerrit
3 1 (0.38%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.83%) Finance
3 18 (6.84%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.80%) Retail
7 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.28%) Banking
8 6 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.52%) Local Government
10 3 (1.14%) Aviation
10 3 (1.14%) Games
10 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.76%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Military
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 85 (32.32%) Network Engineer
2 37 (14.07%) Support Engineer
3 34 (12.93%) Analyst
4 32 (12.17%) Senior
5 29 (11.03%) Service Analyst
5 29 (11.03%) Service Desk Analyst
6 25 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (9.13%) IT Support
8 18 (6.84%) Technical Analyst
8 18 (6.84%) Technical Services Analyst
9 16 (6.08%) Desktop Engineer
9 16 (6.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 16 (6.08%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (5.70%) IT Engineer
11 13 (4.94%) Desktop Support
11 13 (4.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) Lead
12 12 (4.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.55%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.14%) Yocto
4 2 (0.76%) .NET
4 2 (0.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.76%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.76%) XML
5 1 (0.38%) ADO
5 1 (0.38%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.41%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.51%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (2.66%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.28%) Smartphone
5 5 (1.90%) CCTV
5 5 (1.90%) CMDB
5 5 (1.90%) IoT
5 5 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.14%) Digital TV
7 3 (1.14%) IVR
7 3 (1.14%) NHS
7 3 (1.14%) PKI
7 3 (1.14%) STB
7 3 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 72 (27.38%) Windows
2 46 (17.49%) Windows 10
3 17 (6.46%) Linux
4 16 (6.08%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.42%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.66%) Android
6 7 (2.66%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.28%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.76%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.38%) Unix
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.33%) Customer Service
2 63 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (21.29%) ITIL
4 34 (12.93%) Incident Management
4 34 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (12.93%) Service Delivery
5 32 (12.17%) Network Design
6 30 (11.41%) Network Management
7 28 (10.65%) Load Balancing
8 26 (9.89%) Mathematics
9 20 (7.60%) ITSM
10 16 (6.08%) Network Architecture
11 15 (5.70%) Project Management
12 13 (4.94%) Service Management
12 13 (4.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (4.56%) Impact Assessments
13 12 (4.56%) Network Monitoring
13 12 (4.56%) Project Delivery
14 11 (4.18%) Change Management
14 11 (4.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.32%) Python
2 12 (4.56%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.28%) C
4 5 (1.90%) Java
4 5 (1.90%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.52%) C++
5 4 (1.52%) Go
5 4 (1.52%) Perl
5 4 (1.52%) VB
5 4 (1.52%) VBScript
6 2 (0.76%) C#
6 2 (0.76%) SQL
7 1 (0.38%) Bash
7 1 (0.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 59 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (11.79%) A+ Certification
5 29 (11.03%) MCSA
6 27 (10.27%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (8.75%) Degree
8 17 (6.46%) CCNP
9 12 (4.56%) CCNA
10 8 (3.04%) CCIE
11 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.76%) CWNA
13 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.76%) MCSE
14 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.80%) SLA
2 7 (2.66%) QA
3 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (35.74%) Active Directory
2 32 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.90%) BitLocker
4 4 (1.52%) Firmware
4 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (9.89%) SCCM
2 13 (4.94%) AppManager
2 13 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.80%) Ansible
4 8 (3.04%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.14%) Grafana
5 3 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.14%) SCOrch
5 3 (1.14%) Terraform
6 2 (0.76%) CASB
6 2 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.38%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.38%) Netcool
7 1 (0.38%) OfficeScan
7 1 (0.38%) Plesk
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 110 (41.83%) Microsoft
2 106 (40.30%) Cisco
3 58 (22.05%) Palo Alto
4 51 (19.39%) Meraki
5 38 (14.45%) ServiceNow
6 32 (12.17%) Citrix
6 32 (12.17%) VMware
7 17 (6.46%) Aruba
8 16 (6.08%) Fortinet
8 16 (6.08%) SolarWinds
9 14 (5.32%) Juniper
10 13 (4.94%) Ivanti
11 12 (4.56%) F5
12 11 (4.18%) CheckPoint
13 9 (3.42%) Ekahau
14 8 (3.04%) Arista
14 8 (3.04%) Google
15 7 (2.66%) Apple
15 7 (2.66%) Splunk
15 7 (2.66%) Zscaler