Wireless Contract Job Trends

Wireless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Wireless skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 280 206
Rank change year-on-year -36 -74 +111
Contract jobs citing Wireless 254 319 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.84% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.78% 7.05% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 187 481
10th Percentile £204 £217 £213
25th Percentile £313 £284 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £435
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% -
75th Percentile £500 £544 £525
90th Percentile £588 £630 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £420 £420
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 17 24
10th Percentile £17.86 £16.88 -
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £34.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -30.45% -8.13%
75th Percentile £34.00 £51.91 £52.50
90th Percentile £82.00 £52.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.22% +115.82% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireless 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 3,744 4,522 6,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 11.86% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 2,642 4,228
10th Percentile £228 £231 £226
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £610 £613
90th Percentile £676 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -9.30% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 260 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.37 £22.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -9.72% +34.50%
75th Percentile £64.06 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £75.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Wireless
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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 -41 219 £413 -2.94% 281
UK excluding London -30 153 £380 -9.52% 256
London -12 74 £425 +6.25% 64
Work from Home +7 55 £463 +12.12% 100
South East +9 44 £208 -39.42% 100
Midlands -6 40 £380 +1.33% 51
West Midlands +13 39 £380 -24.38% 33
North of England -32 35 £330 -35.61% 48
Yorkshire -14 19 £450 -10.00% 19
East of England +5 16 £445 +7.88% 29
North West -26 14 £325 -36.59% 26
Scotland +1 10 £399 -20.20% 11
South West +7 5 £500 +11.11% 22
Northern Ireland - 3 £475 - 2
North East -3 2 £550 -8.33% 5
East Midlands -20 1 £438 +16.67% 18
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

Wireless
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 6 (2.36%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (11.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.39%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.39%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.39%) AWS
2 31 (12.20%) Azure
3 25 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.94%) SaaS
4 10 (3.94%) Sauce Labs
5 6 (2.36%) Google Workspace
5 6 (2.36%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.18%) GCP
7 2 (0.79%) Akamai
7 2 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.79%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.79%) Serverless
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 122 (48.03%) Firewall
2 93 (36.61%) WAN
3 84 (33.07%) LAN
4 66 (25.98%) DNS
5 55 (21.65%) VPN
6 53 (20.87%) DHCP
7 51 (20.08%) Network Security
8 40 (15.75%) BGP
8 40 (15.75%) OSPF
8 40 (15.75%) SD-WAN
9 37 (14.57%) TCP/IP
10 35 (13.78%) WLAN
11 34 (13.39%) Cisco Wireless
12 32 (12.60%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (12.20%) VLAN
14 28 (11.02%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (9.45%) IPsec
16 23 (9.06%) SSL
17 22 (8.66%) MPLS
18 15 (5.91%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.94%) MySQL
1 10 (3.94%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Power BI
3 1 (0.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (3.94%) Android Studio
1 10 (3.94%) Browser DevTools
1 10 (3.94%) Eclipse
1 10 (3.94%) Xcode
2 6 (2.36%) JIRA
3 4 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.18%) KGDB
5 1 (0.39%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 96 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.60%) Telecoms
3 25 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.30%) Banking
5 15 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.12%) Finance
7 12 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.72%) Retail
8 11 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.76%) Legal
11 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
13 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Advertising
14 1 (0.39%) Aviation
14 1 (0.39%) Electronics
14 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (32.28%) Network Engineer
2 29 (11.42%) Senior
3 24 (9.45%) Support Engineer
4 18 (7.09%) Analyst
5 14 (5.51%) Architect
6 13 (5.12%) Cisco Engineer
6 13 (5.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 13 (5.12%) Network Architect
7 12 (4.72%) Technical Support
8 11 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.33%) IT Engineer
8 11 (4.33%) Senior Network Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (3.94%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Technical Support Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) UX Engineer
10 9 (3.54%) Designer
10 9 (3.54%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.24%) 802.1X
2 10 (3.94%) Ajax
2 10 (3.94%) AngularJS
2 10 (3.94%) CSS
2 10 (3.94%) GraphQL
2 10 (3.94%) React
3 3 (1.18%) REST
4 2 (0.79%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.79%) RESTful
4 2 (0.79%) Swagger
5 1 (0.39%) Java RMI
5 1 (0.39%) JSON
5 1 (0.39%) LDAP
5 1 (0.39%) SAML
5 1 (0.39%) XML
5 1 (0.39%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.41%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.69%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.72%) IoT
4 11 (4.33%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.94%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.54%) PKI
6 9 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.36%) CMDB
7 6 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.18%) CCTV
10 3 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.79%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.50%) Windows
2 22 (8.66%) Android
2 22 (8.66%) Mac OS
3 21 (8.27%) Linux
4 13 (5.12%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.72%) Unix
6 8 (3.15%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.79%) VMS
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (14.17%) ITIL
3 31 (12.20%) Customer Service
4 29 (11.42%) Computer Science
5 25 (9.84%) Network Design
6 23 (9.06%) Change Management
6 23 (9.06%) Network Monitoring
7 18 (7.09%) Project Management
8 17 (6.69%) Mentoring
9 16 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (6.30%) Inventory Management
9 16 (6.30%) User Experience
10 14 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (5.51%) Incident Management
10 14 (5.51%) Network Architecture
11 13 (5.12%) Load Balancing
11 13 (5.12%) Migration
11 13 (5.12%) Validation
12 12 (4.72%) High Availability
12 12 (4.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.39%) Python
2 13 (5.12%) Perl
3 12 (4.72%) Java
4 10 (3.94%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.18%) C++
5 3 (1.18%) SQL
6 2 (0.79%) Go
6 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.39%) Bash
7 1 (0.39%) C
7 1 (0.39%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.39%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 102 (40.16%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (24.80%) CCNP
3 54 (21.26%) Security Cleared
4 45 (17.72%) SC Cleared
5 42 (16.54%) Degree
6 37 (14.57%) CCNA
7 25 (9.84%) CCIE
7 25 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (5.91%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.54%) CCSA
10 7 (2.76%) DBS Check
11 6 (2.36%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.36%) JNCIE
11 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.97%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.97%) JNCIA
13 3 (1.18%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.84%) SLA
2 10 (3.94%) GDPR
3 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.18%) QA
4 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) COBIT
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.33%) Firmware
4 6 (2.36%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.79%) Docker
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (7.87%) Ansible
2 14 (5.51%) FortiGate
3 9 (3.54%) Terraform
4 6 (2.36%) OpenView
4 6 (2.36%) SmoothWall
5 5 (1.97%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (1.57%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.79%) Nagios
8 2 (0.79%) NSN NetAct
8 2 (0.79%) SCCM
8 2 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.39%) Nessus
Vendors
1 158 (62.20%) Cisco
2 54 (21.26%) Microsoft
3 50 (19.69%) F5
4 48 (18.90%) Juniper
5 36 (14.17%) Fortinet
6 31 (12.20%) Meraki
7 29 (11.42%) SolarWinds
8 28 (11.02%) Palo Alto
9 27 (10.63%) CheckPoint
10 21 (8.27%) ServiceNow
11 17 (6.69%) Aruba
12 15 (5.91%) Dell
12 15 (5.91%) VMware
13 14 (5.51%) Apple
13 14 (5.51%) Splunk
14 13 (5.12%) HP
14 13 (5.12%) Oracle
15 9 (3.54%) Blue Coat
16 8 (3.15%) LogicMonitor
16 8 (3.15%) Remedy