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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 269 203
Rank change year-on-year -53 -66 +82
Contract jobs citing Wireless 301 310 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.91% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.61% 7.15% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 207 355
10th Percentile £170 £228 £213
25th Percentile £203 £366 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.45% -2.25%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £538
90th Percentile £581 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £420 £425
% change year-on-year -19.05% -1.18% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 9 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £28.53 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £45.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.71 £48.56 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.18% +115.82% -6.25%
75th Percentile £25.15 £52.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £56.00 £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £24.50
% change year-on-year -60.87% +98.20% +46.01%

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 3,956 4,337 6,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 12.69% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,546 3,755
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £585 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 152 340
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -31.82% +34.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.63 £75.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £39.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year +8.28% -30.52% +25.53%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -41 269 £340 -24.44% 269
UK excluding London -36 198 £340 -19.05% 245
London -18 82 £345 -28.46% 56
South East +3 66 £208 -30.83% 100
Work from Home -38 55 £428 -5.00% 75
Midlands -11 53 £369 -13.24% 37
West Midlands -2 44 £380 -34.48% 23
North of England -62 42 £190 -58.61% 41
North West -25 26 £275 -41.18% 23
East of England -27 21 £485 +3.47% 33
Scotland +3 9 £425 +6.25% 6
North East +2 9 £175 -68.18% 5
East Midlands -17 9 £158 -58.00% 13
South West -21 8 £213 -49.40% 25
Yorkshire -53 7 £238 -44.12% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 2
Wales +3 2 £400 +81.82% 7

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 11 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.99%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 61 (20.27%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.98%) MS Visio
3 13 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 62 (20.60%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (14.62%) AWS
3 32 (10.63%) Azure
4 19 (6.31%) SaaS
5 18 (5.98%) Sauce Labs
6 10 (3.32%) GCP
7 9 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (1.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (1.99%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.00%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.66%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.66%) Slack
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.33%) IaaS
11 1 (0.33%) OCI
11 1 (0.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 116 (38.54%) Firewall
2 81 (26.91%) WAN
3 71 (23.59%) LAN
4 63 (20.93%) VPN
5 52 (17.28%) DNS
6 47 (15.61%) BGP
7 39 (12.96%) Network Security
8 38 (12.62%) OSPF
9 37 (12.29%) Cisco Wireless
10 36 (11.96%) DHCP
11 31 (10.30%) Cisco ISE
11 31 (10.30%) SD-WAN
12 28 (9.30%) VLAN
13 26 (8.64%) WLAN
14 25 (8.31%) IPsec
15 23 (7.64%) MPLS
16 22 (7.31%) SSL
17 21 (6.98%) TCP/IP
18 19 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
19 18 (5.98%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.98%) MySQL
1 18 (5.98%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.66%) Power BI
2 2 (0.66%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (5.98%) Android Studio
1 18 (5.98%) Browser DevTools
1 18 (5.98%) Eclipse
1 18 (5.98%) Xcode
2 9 (2.99%) Burp Suite
3 8 (2.66%) Metasploit
4 6 (1.99%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 94 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.95%) Public Sector
2 45 (14.95%) Telecoms
3 33 (10.96%) Finance
3 33 (10.96%) Manufacturing
4 29 (9.63%) Banking
5 25 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.97%) Marketing
7 23 (7.64%) Electronics
8 18 (5.98%) Retail
9 12 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.33%) Legal
11 6 (1.99%) Local Government
11 6 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Military
15 1 (0.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (23.26%) Network Engineer
2 38 (12.62%) Support Engineer
3 32 (10.63%) Desktop Support
3 32 (10.63%) IT Support
4 29 (9.63%) 2nd Line Support
5 27 (8.97%) Technical Support
6 26 (8.64%) Senior
7 23 (7.64%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 23 (7.64%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 19 (6.31%) Analyst
8 19 (6.31%) Security Engineer
9 18 (5.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 18 (5.98%) Technical Engineer
9 18 (5.98%) Technical Support Engineer
9 18 (5.98%) UX Engineer
10 13 (4.32%) IT Engineer
10 13 (4.32%) Penetration Tester
10 13 (4.32%) Support Analyst
10 13 (4.32%) Tester
11 12 (3.99%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.98%) 802.1X
1 18 (5.98%) Ajax
1 18 (5.98%) AngularJS
1 18 (5.98%) CSS
1 18 (5.98%) GraphQL
1 18 (5.98%) React
2 4 (1.33%) LDAP
2 4 (1.33%) SAML
3 1 (0.33%) REST
3 1 (0.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 92 (30.56%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.97%) IoT
3 21 (6.98%) Driving Licence
4 19 (6.31%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.66%) CMDB
7 8 (2.66%) NHS
7 8 (2.66%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.99%) Life Science
8 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.33%) PKI
11 3 (1.00%) CCTV
11 3 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (23.26%) Windows
2 67 (22.26%) Android
3 58 (19.27%) Mac OS
4 30 (9.97%) Linux
5 21 (6.98%) Unix
6 18 (5.98%) Windows Server
7 16 (5.32%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.00%) VMS
9 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.66%) CatOS
9 2 (0.66%) Debian
9 2 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (9.97%) User Experience
4 29 (9.63%) Customer Service
5 26 (8.64%) Programme Management
6 24 (7.97%) ITIL
7 23 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (7.64%) Digital Marketing
8 19 (6.31%) Computer Science
8 19 (6.31%) Network Management
8 19 (6.31%) Network Monitoring
9 18 (5.98%) Mobile Application Development
9 18 (5.98%) OO
10 17 (5.65%) Change Management
10 17 (5.65%) Incident Response
11 16 (5.32%) Migration
11 16 (5.32%) Project Delivery
11 16 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (4.98%) ITSM
12 15 (4.98%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.96%) Python
2 22 (7.31%) Perl
3 18 (5.98%) Java
3 18 (5.98%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.66%) Lisp
5 4 (1.33%) C++
6 2 (0.66%) Bash
6 2 (0.66%) C
6 2 (0.66%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
7 1 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 73 (24.25%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (18.27%) CCNP
5 31 (10.30%) Degree
6 26 (8.64%) CCNA
7 20 (6.64%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.98%) CCIE
9 14 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.99%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.66%) CCSA
11 8 (2.66%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (2.66%) JNCIE
12 7 (2.33%) CISSP
13 6 (1.99%) CREST Certified
13 6 (1.99%) Cyber Scheme
13 6 (1.99%) ECDL
13 6 (1.99%) Postgraduate
14 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.66%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.32%) GDPR
2 16 (5.32%) SLA
3 14 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.33%) QA
5 6 (1.99%) NIST
5 6 (1.99%) PMO
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.66%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) COBIT
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) JTAG
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.32%) Firmware
3 13 (4.32%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.31%) FortiGate
2 16 (5.32%) Ansible
3 11 (3.65%) Terraform
4 10 (3.32%) Nmap
5 7 (2.33%) SCCM
6 4 (1.33%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.00%) Nessus
8 2 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.33%) Grafana
9 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.33%) NSN NetAct
9 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 168 (55.81%) Cisco
2 56 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 51 (16.94%) Dell
4 49 (16.28%) Apple
5 48 (15.95%) HP
6 43 (14.29%) F5
7 42 (13.95%) Juniper
7 42 (13.95%) ServiceNow
8 33 (10.96%) Fortinet
9 32 (10.63%) Palo Alto
10 31 (10.30%) CheckPoint
11 25 (8.31%) Meraki
12 24 (7.97%) SAP
13 22 (7.31%) Splunk
13 22 (7.31%) VMware
14 21 (6.98%) Oracle
15 20 (6.64%) SolarWinds
16 19 (6.31%) Aruba
17 17 (5.65%) Remedy
18 12 (3.99%) Blue Coat