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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 276 237
Rank change year-on-year -82 -39 +1
Contract jobs citing Wireless 277 272 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.92% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.18% 7.22% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 189 274
10th Percentile £190 £220 £168
25th Percentile £250 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% +7.14% -1.18%
75th Percentile £519 £556 £540
90th Percentile £588 £590 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £438 £416
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.25% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 41
10th Percentile £15.62 - £12.75
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 £61.25 £23.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £14.77 £17.69
% change year-on-year +153.98% -16.53% -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 4,483 3,767 5,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 12.76% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 2,331 3,434
10th Percentile £249 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £362 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -0.51% -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 216 172 430
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £20.83 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.38 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.31 £62.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.94 £46.95
% change year-on-year +87.90% -40.48% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -80 254 £400 -14.44% 238
UK excluding London -81 182 £413 -5.71% 230
London -68 68 £213 -55.26% 67
Work from Home -36 63 £425 -2.86% 57
South East -24 61 £480 +19.25% 87
North of England -59 45 £425 +6.25% 47
Midlands -35 34 £340 +58.14% 22
North West -35 32 £475 +18.69% 20
West Midlands -35 30 £340 +65.85% 14
East of England -43 22 £325 -33.67% 36
South West -36 16 £510 +23.64% 27
Yorkshire -54 7 £450 +7.14% 21
North East -14 6 £213 -61.36% 11
Scotland -5 4 £360 -9.89% 17
East Midlands -32 4 £158 -57.29% 8
Wales -21 2 £400 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £385 - 2

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 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (5.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.72%) Azure
2 35 (12.64%) AWS
3 30 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 6 (2.17%) GCP
5 6 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.44%) Route 53
6 4 (1.44%) SaaS
7 3 (1.08%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.72%) GitHub
8 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.72%) PaaS
8 2 (0.72%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (0.72%) Slack
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 124 (44.77%) Firewall
2 85 (30.69%) LAN
3 84 (30.32%) WAN
4 55 (19.86%) VPN
5 50 (18.05%) Network Security
6 48 (17.33%) Wi-Fi
7 42 (15.16%) BGP
8 40 (14.44%) DNS
8 40 (14.44%) OSPF
9 38 (13.72%) VLAN
10 37 (13.36%) SD-WAN
11 35 (12.64%) DHCP
12 33 (11.91%) Cisco ISE
13 31 (11.19%) Cisco Wireless
13 31 (11.19%) WLAN
14 26 (9.39%) IPsec
15 20 (7.22%) Cisco ASA
16 18 (6.50%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (6.50%) Internet
16 18 (6.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.72%) MySQL
1 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.42%) Burp Suite
2 14 (5.05%) Metasploit
3 7 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (1.81%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.72%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.72%) Xcode
6 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 80 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (5.78%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.69%) Finance
5 12 (4.33%) Retail
5 12 (4.33%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.97%) Banking
7 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.81%) Local Government
10 4 (1.44%) Law
10 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 4 (1.44%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Billing
11 3 (1.08%) Electronics
12 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (38.63%) Network Engineer
2 22 (7.94%) Architect
3 19 (6.86%) IT Support
4 17 (6.14%) Penetration Tester
4 17 (6.14%) Tester
5 16 (5.78%) Senior
5 16 (5.78%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.42%) Cisco Engineer
6 15 (5.42%) Wireless Engineer
7 12 (4.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 11 (3.97%) Desktop Support
8 11 (3.97%) Network Architect
8 11 (3.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 11 (3.97%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (3.97%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 10 (3.61%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.61%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.25%) Analyst
11 8 (2.89%) IT Engineer
12 7 (2.53%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.16%) 802.1X
2 10 (3.61%) SAML
3 8 (2.89%) LDAP
4 6 (2.17%) X-Windows
5 3 (1.08%) Yocto
6 2 (0.72%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (0.72%) Ajax
6 2 (0.72%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.72%) CSS
6 2 (0.72%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.72%) React
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.36%) Qt
7 1 (0.36%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.58%) IoT
3 14 (5.05%) Security Posture
4 11 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.89%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.53%) FPGA
6 7 (2.53%) PCIe
7 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.81%) BYOD
8 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.08%) Device Driver
9 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) iPhone
9 3 (1.08%) MicroBlaze
9 3 (1.08%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.05%) Windows
2 22 (7.94%) Windows 10
3 20 (7.22%) Linux
4 18 (6.50%) Android
5 17 (6.14%) Mac OS
6 11 (3.97%) Unix
7 9 (3.25%) Windows Server
8 7 (2.53%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (2.17%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (2.17%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.44%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.44%) CatOS
11 3 (1.08%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.72%) Debian
13 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.36%) VMS
13 1 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (10.11%) ITSM
3 27 (9.75%) Network Segmentation
4 26 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (7.94%) Regulatory Compliance
6 20 (7.22%) Customer Service
6 20 (7.22%) ITIL
6 20 (7.22%) Zero Trust
7 19 (6.86%) Migration
8 18 (6.50%) Change Management
8 18 (6.50%) Penetration Testing
9 17 (6.14%) Cloud Security
9 17 (6.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (5.78%) High Availability
11 15 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.42%) Information Security
12 14 (5.05%) Network Design
12 14 (5.05%) Network Monitoring
12 14 (5.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.78%) Python
2 13 (4.69%) C
3 7 (2.53%) C++
4 4 (1.44%) Embedded C
5 3 (1.08%) Lisp
5 3 (1.08%) Perl
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Bash
7 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby
7 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 79 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 60 (21.66%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (19.86%) CCNP
5 36 (13.00%) CCNA
6 25 (9.03%) Degree
7 15 (5.42%) CCIE
8 14 (5.05%) CHECK Team Member
9 12 (4.33%) CREST Certified
9 12 (4.33%) Cyber Scheme
10 11 (3.97%) Postgraduate
11 10 (3.61%) DV Cleared
11 10 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (2.89%) Server+ Certification
13 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (2.17%) JNCIA
13 6 (2.17%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.81%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.44%) CWNA
15 4 (1.44%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.42%) GDPR
2 15 (5.42%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.69%) QA
4 11 (3.97%) PMO
5 7 (2.53%) SLA
6 4 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.44%) NIST
7 3 (1.08%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) DICOM
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) JTAG
System Software
1 30 (10.83%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.97%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.61%) Firmware
5 5 (1.81%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (1.44%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (6.50%) Ansible
2 16 (5.78%) Nmap
3 13 (4.69%) FortiGate
4 10 (3.61%) SCCM
5 9 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.53%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.17%) Grafana
8 6 (2.17%) Terraform
9 5 (1.81%) Salt
10 4 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.36%) CASB
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 147 (53.07%) Cisco
2 60 (21.66%) Palo Alto
3 52 (18.77%) Aruba
4 41 (14.80%) ServiceNow
5 38 (13.72%) Microsoft
6 34 (12.27%) CheckPoint
6 34 (12.27%) F5
7 29 (10.47%) Meraki
8 24 (8.66%) Fortinet
8 24 (8.66%) Juniper
9 23 (8.30%) Ekahau
10 20 (7.22%) Apple
11 19 (6.86%) HP
12 18 (6.50%) VMware
13 15 (5.42%) Dell
14 12 (4.33%) Splunk
15 11 (3.97%) ForeScout
16 10 (3.61%) Remedy
17 9 (3.25%) Arista
17 9 (3.25%) SolarWinds