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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 316 282
Rank change year-on-year -12 -34 -85
Contract jobs citing Wireless 393 256 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.78% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.79% 6.77% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 146 190
10th Percentile £250 £204 £217
25th Percentile £358 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -2.30%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £547
90th Percentile £588 £588 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £380 £420
% change year-on-year +18.42% -9.52% -0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 43 17
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.66 £16.88
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £52.43 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +108.45% +5.67% -30.45%
75th Percentile £60.00 £33.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £70.00 £81.00 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.43 £30.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year +74.75% -38.22% +115.82%

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 5,044 3,781 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.32% 11.57% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,936 2,333 2,657
10th Percentile £231 £230 £231
25th Percentile £385 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 198 261
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -17.48% -8.83%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £73.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.11%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -16 350 £450 +9.09% 523
UK excluding London -16 263 £450 +18.42% 394
North of England -8 106 £492 +49.09% 66
London -63 96 £450 +5.88% 173
Work from Home -35 83 £450 -2.70% 267
North West +13 80 £525 +61.54% 47
South East -43 56 £403 +93.98% 165
Midlands -49 38 £425 +11.84% 48
East of England -9 37 £377 -15.34% 56
West Midlands -49 36 £425 +11.84% 25
Yorkshire -33 20 £450 - 13
Scotland -17 14 £313 -21.68% 20
South West -41 10 £350 -30.00% 37
North East -35 6 £420 -23.64% 8
Wales - 5 £363 - 5
Northern Ireland +3 2 £265 -44.32% 5
East Midlands -15 2 £235 -46.29% 23

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 14 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.76%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.25%) Simulink
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 60 (15.27%) Azure
2 47 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (7.38%) Entra ID
4 20 (5.09%) AWS
5 11 (2.80%) GitHub
6 9 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (1.53%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.76%) GCP
9 3 (0.76%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.51%) 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%) IaaS
11 1 (0.25%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.25%) OCI
11 1 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 171 (43.51%) Firewall
2 136 (34.61%) WAN
3 117 (29.77%) LAN
4 113 (28.75%) VPN
5 105 (26.72%) Network Security
6 93 (23.66%) Wi-Fi
7 79 (20.10%) DNS
8 67 (17.05%) BGP
9 66 (16.79%) VLAN
10 58 (14.76%) DHCP
11 53 (13.49%) OSPF
12 51 (12.98%) SD-WAN
13 45 (11.45%) Cisco ISE
13 45 (11.45%) WLAN
14 44 (11.20%) TCP/IP
15 30 (7.63%) Cisco Nexus
15 30 (7.63%) Cisco Wireless
15 30 (7.63%) IPsec
16 29 (7.38%) Structured Cabling
17 26 (6.62%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (2.80%) JIRA
2 10 (2.54%) Git
3 9 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) MSI
General
1 111 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 33 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (7.63%) Finance
4 18 (4.58%) Aerospace
4 18 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (4.58%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.07%) Legal
5 16 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.56%) Retail
7 9 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.04%) Banking
9 7 (1.78%) Law
10 5 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.27%) Police
11 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.02%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.76%) Front Office
12 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (53.69%) Network Engineer
2 41 (10.43%) Senior
3 30 (7.63%) Software Engineer
4 29 (7.38%) Cisco Engineer
5 27 (6.87%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 27 (6.87%) Senior Network Engineer
6 26 (6.62%) Embedded Engineer
6 26 (6.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 25 (6.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 21 (5.34%) Architect
8 21 (5.34%) Wireless Engineer
9 19 (4.83%) Analyst
9 19 (4.83%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 16 (4.07%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.56%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.31%) IT Support
13 12 (3.05%) Implementation Engineer
13 12 (3.05%) Network Implementation Engineer
13 12 (3.05%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.43%) 802.1X
2 12 (3.05%) Terraform
3 11 (2.80%) Yocto
4 9 (2.29%) REST
5 8 (2.04%) JSON
6 7 (1.78%) Software Packaging
7 6 (1.53%) Django
8 5 (1.27%) SAML
9 4 (1.02%) Flask
10 3 (0.76%) XML
11 2 (0.51%) 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 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.33%) Driving Licence
4 16 (4.07%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (3.82%) PKI
6 14 (3.56%) Digital Signage
7 13 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.80%) Device Driver
9 10 (2.54%) MicroBlaze
9 10 (2.54%) RISC-V
10 9 (2.29%) FPGA
10 9 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.29%) PCIe
11 8 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.78%) Smartphone
13 6 (1.53%) IoT
13 6 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.27%) CCTV
14 5 (1.27%) iPad
14 5 (1.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.74%) Windows
2 22 (5.60%) Linux
3 18 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.80%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (2.80%) Mac OS
4 11 (2.80%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.29%) FreeRTOS
6 8 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.27%) Android
8 3 (0.76%) VMS
8 3 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.76%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.51%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (10.18%) ITIL
2 40 (10.18%) Project Delivery
3 37 (9.41%) Change Management
4 31 (7.89%) Software Engineering
5 30 (7.63%) ITSM
5 30 (7.63%) Migration
6 29 (7.38%) Load Balancing
7 28 (7.12%) Agile
8 27 (6.87%) High Availability
9 26 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (6.36%) Validation
11 23 (5.85%) Network Segmentation
12 22 (5.60%) Zero Trust
13 20 (5.09%) Digital Signal Processing
13 20 (5.09%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (5.09%) Signal Processing
13 20 (5.09%) User Experience
14 19 (4.83%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.41%) Python
2 21 (5.34%) C
3 11 (2.80%) C++
3 11 (2.80%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.27%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (1.02%) Embedded C
6 3 (0.76%) Lisp
6 3 (0.76%) SQL
6 3 (0.76%) VBScript
7 2 (0.51%) Perl
8 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 95 (24.17%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (22.90%) Security Cleared
3 78 (19.85%) CCNP
4 75 (19.08%) SC Cleared
5 55 (13.99%) CCNA
6 29 (7.38%) Degree
7 20 (5.09%) CCIE
8 19 (4.83%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (2.80%) Server+ Certification
10 7 (1.78%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.27%) CWNA
11 5 (1.27%) JNCIP
11 5 (1.27%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.02%) CCIE Wireless
12 4 (1.02%) City & Guilds
12 4 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.04%) SLA
3 6 (1.53%) NIST
4 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.27%) QA
5 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (13.49%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.33%) Firmware
3 11 (2.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.76%) Docker
8 3 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.51%) vSphere
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (6.62%) FortiGate
2 25 (6.36%) Ansible
3 20 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (4.07%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (2.04%) SCCM
6 3 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
7 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.25%) CASB
8 1 (0.25%) MobiControl
8 1 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.25%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 209 (53.18%) Cisco
2 70 (17.81%) Palo Alto
3 64 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 53 (13.49%) Aruba
5 48 (12.21%) Meraki
6 47 (11.96%) F5
7 39 (9.92%) Fortinet
8 35 (8.91%) Juniper
9 31 (7.89%) CheckPoint
10 28 (7.12%) ServiceNow
11 17 (4.33%) Zscaler
12 16 (4.07%) SolarWinds
12 16 (4.07%) VMware
13 12 (3.05%) Splunk
14 10 (2.54%) Ekahau
14 10 (2.54%) ForeScout
15 9 (2.29%) Blue Coat
15 9 (2.29%) Citrix
16 7 (1.78%) Arista
16 7 (1.78%) Infoblox