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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 321 267
Rank change year-on-year -5 -54 -76
Contract jobs citing Wireless 399 256 337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.79% 6.65% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 146 198
10th Percentile £250 £204 £217
25th Percentile £358 £308 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £586 £588 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £380 £420
% change year-on-year +18.42% -9.52% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 43 20
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.66 £15.73
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £52.43 £25.15 £23.10
Median % change year-on-year +108.45% +8.87% -32.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £33.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £70.00 £81.00 £52.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.43 £30.00 £35.48
% change year-on-year +74.75% -15.45% +57.69%

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 5,121 3,847 4,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.38% 11.65% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,996 2,371 2,670
10th Percentile £233 £235 £228
25th Percentile £390 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.58% -7.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 201 268
10th Percentile £14.28 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% -16.67% -9.72%
75th Percentile £66.28 £63.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.11 £73.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.82% -25.89% +1.52%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -15 355 £450 +9.09% 347
UK excluding London 0 269 £450 +18.42% 291
North of England -2 105 £492 +49.09% 56
London -57 96 £450 +5.88% 79
Work from Home -45 87 £450 -2.70% 121
North West +22 79 £525 +61.54% 37
South East -43 61 £425 +104.82% 114
Midlands -46 40 £425 +11.84% 41
West Midlands -46 38 £425 +11.84% 22
East of England -10 37 £377 -15.34% 39
Yorkshire -37 20 £450 - 14
Scotland -10 15 £381 -4.45% 10
South West -43 9 £375 -25.00% 33
North East -42 6 £420 -23.64% 8
Wales - 5 £363 - 3
Northern Ireland +1 2 £265 -44.32% 3
East Midlands -12 2 £235 -46.29% 19

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 15 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.75%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.25%) Simulink
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 62 (15.54%) Azure
2 47 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (7.02%) Entra ID
4 22 (5.51%) AWS
5 11 (2.76%) GitHub
6 9 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (1.75%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.75%) GCP
9 3 (0.75%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.50%) SaaS
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.25%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.25%) IaaS
11 1 (0.25%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.25%) OCI
11 1 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 177 (44.36%) Firewall
2 139 (34.84%) WAN
3 122 (30.58%) LAN
4 111 (27.82%) VPN
5 108 (27.07%) Network Security
6 95 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
7 79 (19.80%) DNS
8 71 (17.79%) BGP
9 68 (17.04%) VLAN
10 59 (14.79%) DHCP
11 58 (14.54%) OSPF
12 52 (13.03%) SD-WAN
13 50 (12.53%) Cisco ISE
14 47 (11.78%) WLAN
15 46 (11.53%) TCP/IP
16 32 (8.02%) IPsec
17 31 (7.77%) Cisco Wireless
18 30 (7.52%) Cisco Nexus
19 29 (7.27%) Structured Cabling
20 28 (7.02%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (2.76%) JIRA
2 10 (2.51%) Git
3 9 (2.26%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.75%) GitLab
5 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.25%) MSI
General
1 115 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 36 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (7.52%) Finance
4 18 (4.51%) Aerospace
4 18 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (4.51%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.01%) Legal
5 16 (4.01%) Retail
5 16 (4.01%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.01%) Banking
8 7 (1.75%) Law
9 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.25%) Police
10 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.00%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.75%) Front Office
11 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (53.38%) Network Engineer
2 44 (11.03%) Senior
3 30 (7.52%) Senior Network Engineer
4 29 (7.27%) Cisco Engineer
4 29 (7.27%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 25 (6.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 25 (6.27%) Embedded Engineer
6 25 (6.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 22 (5.51%) Architect
8 20 (5.01%) Wireless Engineer
9 18 (4.51%) Analyst
9 18 (4.51%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 16 (4.01%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.51%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.01%) Implementation Engineer
12 12 (3.01%) IT Support
12 12 (3.01%) Network Implementation Engineer
12 12 (3.01%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.28%) 802.1X
2 12 (3.01%) Terraform
3 11 (2.76%) Yocto
4 9 (2.26%) REST
5 8 (2.01%) JSON
6 7 (1.75%) Software Packaging
7 6 (1.50%) Django
8 5 (1.25%) SAML
9 4 (1.00%) Flask
10 3 (0.75%) XML
11 2 (0.50%) LDAP
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.25%) Middleware
12 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
12 1 (0.25%) OpenEmbedded
12 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.04%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 16 (4.01%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (3.76%) PKI
6 14 (3.51%) Digital Signage
7 12 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.76%) Device Driver
9 10 (2.51%) MicroBlaze
9 10 (2.51%) RISC-V
10 9 (2.26%) FPGA
10 9 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.26%) PCIe
11 8 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.75%) Smartphone
13 6 (1.50%) IoT
13 6 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.25%) CCTV
14 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.25%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.29%) Windows
2 22 (5.51%) Linux
3 19 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.51%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.26%) FreeRTOS
7 8 (2.01%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.25%) Android
9 3 (0.75%) VMS
9 3 (0.75%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.75%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.50%) Unix
11 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (10.78%) ITIL
3 42 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 39 (9.77%) Change Management
5 33 (8.27%) Migration
6 32 (8.02%) ITSM
7 30 (7.52%) High Availability
7 30 (7.52%) Load Balancing
7 30 (7.52%) Software Engineering
8 29 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (7.02%) Agile
10 26 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (6.27%) Validation
12 24 (6.02%) Network Segmentation
13 22 (5.51%) Zero Trust
14 21 (5.26%) Service Management
14 21 (5.26%) User Experience
15 20 (5.01%) Digital Signal Processing
15 20 (5.01%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (5.01%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.27%) Python
2 21 (5.26%) C
3 11 (2.76%) C++
3 11 (2.76%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.25%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (1.00%) Embedded C
6 3 (0.75%) Lisp
6 3 (0.75%) SQL
6 3 (0.75%) VBScript
7 2 (0.50%) Perl
8 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 98 (24.56%) Cisco Certification
2 91 (22.81%) Security Cleared
3 81 (20.30%) CCNP
4 76 (19.05%) SC Cleared
5 55 (13.78%) CCNA
6 29 (7.27%) Degree
7 22 (5.51%) CCIE
8 19 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (2.76%) Server+ Certification
10 7 (1.75%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.25%) CWNA
11 5 (1.25%) JNCIP
11 5 (1.25%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.00%) CCIE Wireless
12 4 (1.00%) City & Guilds
12 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.01%) SLA
3 7 (1.75%) QA
4 6 (1.50%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (13.28%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.51%) Firmware
3 13 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.76%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (2.01%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.75%) Docker
7 3 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.50%) vSphere
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (6.27%) Ansible
1 25 (6.27%) FortiGate
2 20 (5.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (4.01%) Cisco Prime
4 8 (2.01%) SCCM
5 3 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.50%) Nagios
6 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.25%) CASB
7 1 (0.25%) MobiControl
7 1 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.25%) Nmap
7 1 (0.25%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 214 (53.63%) Cisco
2 74 (18.55%) Palo Alto
3 65 (16.29%) Microsoft
4 57 (14.29%) Aruba
5 50 (12.53%) F5
6 46 (11.53%) Meraki
7 40 (10.03%) Fortinet
8 35 (8.77%) Juniper
9 33 (8.27%) CheckPoint
10 30 (7.52%) ServiceNow
11 19 (4.76%) VMware
12 17 (4.26%) Zscaler
13 16 (4.01%) SolarWinds
14 12 (3.01%) Ekahau
14 12 (3.01%) Splunk
15 10 (2.51%) ForeScout
16 9 (2.26%) Blue Coat
16 9 (2.26%) Citrix
17 7 (1.75%) Arista
17 7 (1.75%) Infoblox