Wireless Contract Job Trends

Wireless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 282 234
Rank change year-on-year -80 -48 0
Contract jobs citing Wireless 283 269 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.91% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.29% 7.16% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 186 269
10th Percentile £190 £219 £168
25th Percentile £271 £325 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +8.43% -2.35%
75th Percentile £519 £556 £538
90th Percentile £588 £594 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £438 £415
% change year-on-year -4.69% +5.42% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 42
10th Percentile £15.62 - £12.76
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +30.27% -62.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.19 £23.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £63.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £14.20 £17.69
% change year-on-year +199.30% -19.73% -46.39%

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 4,501 3,759 5,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 12.74% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 2,321 3,431
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% - -5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 173 427
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.71
25th Percentile £20.79 £20.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £46.95
% change year-on-year +90.91% -41.42% +153.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Wireless job vacancy trend 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 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 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 -76 260 £413 -11.76% 237
UK excluding London -67 186 £417 -4.69% 235
London -80 70 £225 -52.63% 62
Work from Home -24 65 £423 -3.43% 173
South East -33 64 £480 +19.25% 85
North of England -60 49 £420 +5.00% 53
North West -33 37 £420 +6.33% 22
Midlands -33 32 £340 +58.14% 22
West Midlands -32 29 £340 +65.85% 14
East of England -57 21 £325 -33.67% 38
South West -45 16 £510 +23.64% 26
Yorkshire -60 7 £450 +40.63% 23
North East -14 5 £316 -42.50% 13
Scotland -2 4 £360 -9.89% 20
East Midlands -33 3 - - 8
Wales -20 2 £400 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £385 - 3

Wireless
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (8.83%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (4.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.07%) Azure
2 34 (12.01%) AWS
3 26 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.47%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (1.77%) GCP
5 5 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.41%) Route 53
6 4 (1.41%) SaaS
7 3 (1.06%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.71%) GitHub
8 2 (0.71%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.71%) PaaS
8 2 (0.71%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (0.71%) Slack
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (43.11%) Firewall
2 85 (30.04%) LAN
3 84 (29.68%) WAN
4 56 (19.79%) VPN
5 55 (19.43%) Network Security
6 51 (18.02%) Wi-Fi
7 43 (15.19%) DNS
8 41 (14.49%) BGP
9 39 (13.78%) OSPF
10 37 (13.07%) VLAN
11 36 (12.72%) SD-WAN
12 35 (12.37%) Cisco ISE
13 34 (12.01%) DHCP
14 32 (11.31%) Cisco Wireless
15 31 (10.95%) WLAN
16 26 (9.19%) IPsec
17 19 (6.71%) Cisco ASA
18 18 (6.36%) Cisco Nexus
18 18 (6.36%) Internet
18 18 (6.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.71%) MySQL
1 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.30%) Burp Suite
2 14 (4.95%) Metasploit
3 7 (2.47%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (1.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.71%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.71%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) Xcode
6 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 79 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 16 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (4.59%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.24%) Retail
5 11 (3.89%) Banking
6 10 (3.53%) Finance
7 9 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.12%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.77%) Local Government
11 4 (1.41%) Law
11 4 (1.41%) Legal
11 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.06%) Billing
13 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) German Language
14 1 (0.35%) Marketing
14 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 112 (39.58%) Network Engineer
2 21 (7.42%) Architect
3 17 (6.01%) Penetration Tester
3 17 (6.01%) Tester
4 16 (5.65%) Cisco Engineer
4 16 (5.65%) Senior
4 16 (5.65%) Wireless Engineer
5 15 (5.30%) IT Support
5 15 (5.30%) Support Engineer
6 13 (4.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 12 (4.24%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 11 (3.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 11 (3.89%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (3.89%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.53%) Network Architect
9 10 (3.53%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.18%) Analyst
11 8 (2.83%) Desktop Support
11 8 (2.83%) IT Engineer
12 7 (2.47%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.31%) 802.1X
2 10 (3.53%) SAML
3 8 (2.83%) LDAP
4 6 (2.12%) X-Windows
5 5 (1.77%) Yocto
6 2 (0.71%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (0.71%) Ajax
6 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.71%) CSS
6 2 (0.71%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.71%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.71%) React
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.35%) Qt
7 1 (0.35%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.49%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.42%) IoT
3 14 (4.95%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.53%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.47%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.47%) FPGA
7 7 (2.47%) PCIe
7 7 (2.47%) PKI
8 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.77%) BYOD
9 5 (1.77%) Device Driver
9 5 (1.77%) MicroBlaze
9 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.77%) RISC-V
9 5 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.06%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.96%) Windows
2 22 (7.77%) Windows 10
3 21 (7.42%) Linux
4 15 (5.30%) Android
5 14 (4.95%) Mac OS
6 11 (3.89%) Unix
7 8 (2.83%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (2.83%) Windows Server
8 7 (2.47%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (2.12%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.41%) CatOS
11 3 (1.06%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.71%) Debian
13 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.35%) VMS
13 1 (0.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (10.25%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (9.89%) ITSM
3 27 (9.54%) Network Segmentation
4 26 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
5 25 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (8.83%) Zero Trust
6 22 (7.77%) Regulatory Compliance
7 20 (7.07%) High Availability
8 19 (6.71%) Customer Service
8 19 (6.71%) Migration
9 18 (6.36%) Change Management
9 18 (6.36%) ITIL
9 18 (6.36%) Penetration Testing
9 18 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (6.01%) Cloud Security
11 15 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.30%) Information Security
12 14 (4.95%) Network Design
12 14 (4.95%) Network Monitoring
12 14 (4.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.65%) Python
2 15 (5.30%) C
3 9 (3.18%) C++
4 4 (1.41%) Embedded C
5 3 (1.06%) Lisp
5 3 (1.06%) Perl
6 2 (0.71%) Java
6 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Bash
7 1 (0.35%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.35%) Korn
7 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.35%) Ruby
7 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 78 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 64 (22.61%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (20.85%) CCNP
5 40 (14.13%) CCNA
6 26 (9.19%) Degree
7 15 (5.30%) CCIE
8 14 (4.95%) CHECK Team Member
8 14 (4.95%) Network+ Certification
9 12 (4.24%) CREST Certified
9 12 (4.24%) Cyber Scheme
10 11 (3.89%) Postgraduate
11 10 (3.53%) DV Cleared
12 8 (2.83%) Server+ Certification
13 6 (2.12%) JNCIA
13 6 (2.12%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (1.41%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.95%) GDPR
2 14 (4.95%) PCI DSS
2 14 (4.95%) QA
3 11 (3.89%) PMO
4 7 (2.47%) SLA
5 5 (1.77%) NIST
6 4 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.06%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) DICOM
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) JTAG
System Software
1 29 (10.25%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.24%) Firmware
4 10 (3.53%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (6.01%) Ansible
2 16 (5.65%) Nmap
3 13 (4.59%) FortiGate
4 10 (3.53%) SCCM
5 9 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.47%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.12%) Grafana
9 5 (1.77%) Salt
9 5 (1.77%) Terraform
10 4 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.35%) CASB
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.35%) Nagios
11 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 146 (51.59%) Cisco
2 59 (20.85%) Palo Alto
3 56 (19.79%) Aruba
4 40 (14.13%) ServiceNow
5 36 (12.72%) Microsoft
6 34 (12.01%) CheckPoint
7 33 (11.66%) F5
8 29 (10.25%) Meraki
9 24 (8.48%) Juniper
10 23 (8.13%) Ekahau
10 23 (8.13%) Fortinet
11 17 (6.01%) Apple
11 17 (6.01%) ForeScout
12 16 (5.65%) HP
12 16 (5.65%) VMware
13 12 (4.24%) Dell
13 12 (4.24%) Splunk
14 10 (3.53%) Remedy
15 9 (3.18%) Arista
16 8 (2.83%) SolarWinds