Wireless Security Contract Job Trends

Wireless Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Wireless Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 555 614
Rank change year-on-year -33 +59 +194
Contract jobs citing Wireless Security 4 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.011% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 0.090% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £589 - £575
25th Percentile £628 £413 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +67.65% -32.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £803 £438 £900
90th Percentile £846 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £850 £425 -
% change year-on-year +100.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireless Security 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 3,971 4,455 6,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 12.18% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,571 2,565 4,015
10th Percentile £205 £225 £213
25th Percentile £354 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 173 351
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.53 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.59 £22.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -22.73% +29.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -12.48% -14.04% +25.53%

Wireless Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Wireless Security job vacancy trend in the UK

Wireless Security
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireless Security

Wireless Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless Security over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless Security in the UK

Wireless Security
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireless Security

Wireless Security
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 Wireless Security within the UK over the 6 months to 24 November 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
UK excluding London -32 3 £850 +100.00% 1
England -36 3 £850 +100.00% 1
West Midlands -14 2 - -
Midlands -26 2 - -
East of England - 1 £850 -

Wireless Security
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (50.00%) WLAN
4 1 (25.00%) 802.11
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (25.00%) AirMagnet
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Ekahau
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds