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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 276 208
Rank change year-on-year -46 -68 +58
Contract jobs citing Wireless 305 276 509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.89% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.33% 6.79% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 194 330
10th Percentile £168 £250 £184
25th Percentile £190 £400 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% +11.76% -3.13%
75th Percentile £475 £556 £525
90th Percentile £581 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -22.29% +2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 5 26
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.75
25th Percentile £15.50 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -22.95% +30.27% -42.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £36.13 £52.50 £36.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.71 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -48.60% +44.44% +1.08%

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 4,162 4,064 6,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 13.13% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 2,399 3,608
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £356 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.72% -6.39%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £681 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 130 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% -31.58% +143.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.13 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £26.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year +51.55% -48.45% +161.00%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -38 276 £275 -42.11% 290
UK excluding London -32 203 £340 -22.29% 265
London -52 78 £200 -60.00% 70
Work from Home -21 69 £450 -5.26% 72
South East +6 61 £310 -25.30% 90
Midlands -17 51 £363 -37.50% 36
North of England -59 46 £190 -56.82% 50
West Midlands -15 42 £380 -34.48% 20
North West -32 31 £275 -37.50% 27
East of England -30 22 £445 -6.32% 39
South West -22 15 £513 +24.24% 41
Scotland +1 9 £425 +6.25% 10
East Midlands -23 9 £158 -47.50% 16
North East -7 8 £175 -68.18% 10
Yorkshire -64 7 £238 -44.12% 16
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 5
Wales -10 2 £400 +37.93% 9

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 12 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.31%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 54 (17.70%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (6.23%) MS Visio
4 17 (5.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.69%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (14.75%) AWS
3 37 (12.13%) Azure
4 14 (4.59%) SaaS
5 12 (3.93%) GCP
5 12 (3.93%) Sauce Labs
5 12 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.31%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.31%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.98%) Route 53
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.66%) IaaS
9 2 (0.66%) PaaS
9 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.66%) Slack
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 114 (37.38%) Firewall
2 76 (24.92%) WAN
3 74 (24.26%) LAN
4 59 (19.34%) VPN
5 47 (15.41%) BGP
6 41 (13.44%) Network Security
7 38 (12.46%) OSPF
8 34 (11.15%) Cisco Wireless
8 34 (11.15%) DNS
9 30 (9.84%) Cisco ISE
9 30 (9.84%) SD-WAN
10 29 (9.51%) DHCP
11 27 (8.85%) VLAN
11 27 (8.85%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (8.52%) MPLS
13 25 (8.20%) WLAN
14 24 (7.87%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (7.87%) IPsec
15 19 (6.23%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (5.90%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.93%) MySQL
1 12 (3.93%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.66%) Power BI
2 2 (0.66%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (4.92%) Burp Suite
2 13 (4.26%) Metasploit
3 12 (3.93%) Android Studio
3 12 (3.93%) Browser DevTools
3 12 (3.93%) Eclipse
3 12 (3.93%) Xcode
4 1 (0.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 40 (13.11%) Telecoms
4 32 (10.49%) Finance
5 29 (9.51%) Manufacturing
6 24 (7.87%) Marketing
7 23 (7.54%) Electronics
8 19 (6.23%) Banking
9 18 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (5.90%) Retail
10 11 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.30%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.97%) Legal
12 6 (1.97%) Local Government
13 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.98%) Military
15 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (23.28%) Network Engineer
2 37 (12.13%) IT Support
3 34 (11.15%) Desktop Support
4 32 (10.49%) Support Engineer
5 29 (9.51%) 2nd Line Support
6 23 (7.54%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 23 (7.54%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
6 23 (7.54%) Senior
7 20 (6.56%) Technical Support
8 19 (6.23%) Penetration Tester
8 19 (6.23%) Tester
9 17 (5.57%) Cisco Engineer
10 16 (5.25%) Architect
11 14 (4.59%) Analyst
11 14 (4.59%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 13 (4.26%) Wireless Engineer
13 12 (3.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 12 (3.93%) Network Architect
13 12 (3.93%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.18%) 802.1X
2 12 (3.93%) Ajax
2 12 (3.93%) AngularJS
2 12 (3.93%) CSS
2 12 (3.93%) GraphQL
2 12 (3.93%) React
3 6 (1.97%) LDAP
3 6 (1.97%) SAML
3 6 (1.97%) X-Windows
4 2 (0.66%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (0.66%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.33%) Qt
5 1 (0.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 81 (26.56%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.49%) IoT
3 14 (4.59%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 13 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.95%) NHS
8 8 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) CMDB
9 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.97%) Life Science
10 6 (1.97%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.97%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.98%) PKI
13 2 (0.66%) CCTV
13 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.66%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.62%) Windows
2 52 (17.05%) Android
3 43 (14.10%) Mac OS
4 30 (9.84%) Linux
5 24 (7.87%) Windows 10
6 19 (6.23%) Unix
7 18 (5.90%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.97%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.31%) CatOS
10 3 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.98%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.66%) Debian
11 2 (0.66%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.66%) VMS
11 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (12.46%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (8.52%) Programme Management
4 23 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (7.54%) Digital Marketing
4 23 (7.54%) Network Segmentation
4 23 (7.54%) Regulatory Compliance
5 22 (7.21%) Customer Service
5 22 (7.21%) Network Management
5 22 (7.21%) User Experience
6 21 (6.89%) Zero Trust
7 20 (6.56%) Incident Response
8 19 (6.23%) Cloud Security
9 18 (5.90%) ITIL
9 18 (5.90%) Network Monitoring
9 18 (5.90%) Penetration Testing
10 17 (5.57%) Asset Management
10 17 (5.57%) Incident Management
10 17 (5.57%) Migration
11 15 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.49%) Python
2 16 (5.25%) Perl
3 12 (3.93%) Java
3 12 (3.93%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.62%) Lisp
5 5 (1.64%) C++
6 2 (0.66%) Bash
6 2 (0.66%) C
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.33%) Korn
7 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
7 1 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 80 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 62 (20.33%) Cisco Certification
4 49 (16.07%) CCNP
5 27 (8.85%) Degree
6 25 (8.20%) CCNA
7 16 (5.25%) CCIE
8 13 (4.26%) CHECK Team Member
9 11 (3.61%) CREST Certified
9 11 (3.61%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (3.61%) Postgraduate
10 10 (3.28%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.62%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.30%) CISSP
12 7 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.97%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.97%) ECDL
13 6 (1.97%) JNCIA
13 6 (1.97%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.57%) GDPR
2 17 (5.57%) PCI DSS
3 11 (3.61%) PMO
3 11 (3.61%) QA
4 7 (2.30%) SLA
5 5 (1.64%) NIST
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.66%) GxP
6 2 (0.66%) NCSC
7 1 (0.33%) DICOM
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) JTAG
System Software
1 36 (11.80%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.59%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.62%) Firmware
5 3 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (5.90%) FortiGate
2 17 (5.57%) Ansible
3 16 (5.25%) Nmap
4 11 (3.61%) Terraform
5 7 (2.30%) SCCM
5 7 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.64%) Grafana
7 5 (1.64%) Salt
8 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.98%) Nessus
10 2 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.33%) CASB
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 160 (52.46%) Cisco
2 49 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 47 (15.41%) Palo Alto
4 42 (13.77%) Apple
5 41 (13.44%) Dell
6 39 (12.79%) HP
6 39 (12.79%) ServiceNow
7 36 (11.80%) F5
8 32 (10.49%) Fortinet
9 29 (9.51%) Meraki
10 27 (8.85%) CheckPoint
10 27 (8.85%) Juniper
11 26 (8.52%) Aruba
12 23 (7.54%) SAP
13 21 (6.89%) VMware
14 19 (6.23%) Splunk
15 16 (5.25%) SolarWinds
16 15 (4.92%) Remedy
17 14 (4.59%) Ekahau
17 14 (4.59%) Oracle