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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 317 275
Rank change year-on-year -29 -42 -65
Contract jobs citing Wireless 360 271 337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.82% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.17% 6.88% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 155 204
10th Percentile £250 £243 £206
25th Percentile £387 £350 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £533 £525 £525
90th Percentile £588 £588 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £375
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 40 30
10th Percentile £13.38 £14.20 £15.20
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.11 £17.69
Median hourly rate £52.43 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.45% +19.76% -42.81%
75th Percentile £60.00 £54.31 £47.05
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.66 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.43 £30.00 £20.08
% change year-on-year +74.75% +49.44% -10.78%

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 5,024 3,940 4,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 11.97% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,411 2,875
10th Percentile £250 £241 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -5.00% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 198 316
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £19.79
Median hourly rate £26.07 £46.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.38% -5.30% -3.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.30 £74.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.18% -3.36%

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 August 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 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Top 16 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 August 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 -38 326 £450 +5.88% 326
UK excluding London -28 236 £450 - 272
North of England -15 93 £486 +11.14% 61
London -74 93 £450 +5.88% 81
Work from Home -30 84 £450 -4.00% 96
North West +21 73 £515 +58.46% 35
South East -51 60 £480 +6.67% 112
Midlands -52 33 £425 +15.65% 32
West Midlands -52 32 £438 +23.24% 15
East of England -22 31 £363 -26.02% 37
Yorkshire -46 15 £450 - 17
Scotland -8 13 £381 -1.49% 6
South West -41 6 £363 -12.12% 29
North East -38 5 £420 - 10
Northern Ireland +6 1 £104 -78.11%
East Midlands -11 1 £235 -46.29% 17

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 13 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Simulink
5 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 57 (15.83%) Azure
2 35 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 23 (6.39%) AWS
5 10 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (2.50%) GitHub
7 7 (1.94%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.11%) GCP
8 4 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) SaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.28%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.28%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.28%) OCI
10 1 (0.28%) PaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Route 53
10 1 (0.28%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 165 (45.83%) Firewall
2 122 (33.89%) WAN
3 119 (33.06%) LAN
4 101 (28.06%) VPN
5 96 (26.67%) Network Security
6 80 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
7 72 (20.00%) DNS
8 64 (17.78%) BGP
9 63 (17.50%) VLAN
10 55 (15.28%) DHCP
11 54 (15.00%) OSPF
12 48 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
13 44 (12.22%) SD-WAN
14 41 (11.39%) WLAN
15 38 (10.56%) TCP/IP
16 36 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
17 31 (8.61%) Cisco Wireless
18 29 (8.06%) IPsec
19 26 (7.22%) Cisco IOS
20 22 (6.11%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.39%) JIRA
3 2 (0.56%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.28%) MSI
4 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 28 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (7.78%) Finance
3 19 (5.28%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 17 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.44%) Retail
7 11 (3.06%) Legal
8 9 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.94%) Law
9 7 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.39%) Banking
11 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.11%) Police
12 3 (0.83%) Billing
12 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Front Office
13 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (53.61%) Network Engineer
2 32 (8.89%) Senior
3 29 (8.06%) Architect
4 25 (6.94%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 21 (5.83%) Embedded Engineer
6 21 (5.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 21 (5.83%) Senior Network Engineer
7 20 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 20 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 20 (5.56%) Wireless Engineer
8 18 (5.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 16 (4.44%) Analyst
10 14 (3.89%) Network Architect
11 13 (3.61%) Security Engineer
12 11 (3.06%) Desktop Support
12 11 (3.06%) Implementation Engineer
12 11 (3.06%) Network Security Engineer
12 11 (3.06%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.78%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.78%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.22%) SAML
2 8 (2.22%) Yocto
3 6 (1.67%) Software Packaging
4 3 (0.83%) LDAP
4 3 (0.83%) REST
5 2 (0.56%) Django
5 2 (0.56%) JSON
5 2 (0.56%) XML
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.28%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.89%) PKI
4 13 (3.61%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.61%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (2.50%) FPGA
5 9 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.50%) PCIe
5 9 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.22%) Device Driver
6 8 (2.22%) IoT
7 7 (1.94%) Digital Signage
7 7 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.94%) MicroBlaze
7 7 (1.94%) RISC-V
7 7 (1.94%) Smartphone
8 6 (1.67%) iPad
9 5 (1.39%) BYOD
9 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.67%) Windows
2 15 (4.17%) Linux
3 10 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.50%) FreeRTOS
4 9 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.67%) Unix
7 5 (1.39%) Android
8 3 (0.83%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.83%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (11.11%) ITIL
3 37 (10.28%) ITSM
4 35 (9.72%) Project Delivery
5 34 (9.44%) Change Management
6 33 (9.17%) Migration
7 30 (8.33%) High Availability
7 30 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
8 28 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (7.22%) Software Engineering
10 22 (6.11%) Load Balancing
10 22 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (5.83%) User Experience
11 21 (5.83%) Zero Trust
12 20 (5.56%) Agile
12 20 (5.56%) Validation
13 19 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (5.28%) Incident Management
13 19 (5.28%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (5.28%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (5.83%) Python
2 18 (5.00%) C
3 8 (2.22%) C++
4 6 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.11%) Embedded C
6 3 (0.83%) Lisp
7 2 (0.56%) Perl
7 2 (0.56%) SQL
7 2 (0.56%) VBScript
8 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 105 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 87 (24.17%) CCNP
4 76 (21.11%) SC Cleared
5 65 (18.06%) CCNA
6 29 (8.06%) Degree
7 25 (6.94%) Network+ Certification
8 21 (5.83%) CCIE
9 17 (4.72%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.94%) A+ Certification
11 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.39%) CCIE Wireless
12 5 (1.39%) CWNA
12 5 (1.39%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.39%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.11%) City & Guilds
13 4 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.11%) CWDP
13 4 (1.11%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.22%) SLA
3 7 (1.94%) NIST
3 7 (1.94%) QA
4 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.33%) Firmware
3 10 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.39%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (7.22%) Ansible
2 23 (6.39%) FortiGate
3 19 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
5 10 (2.78%) Terraform
6 7 (1.94%) SCCM
7 4 (1.11%) Grafana
7 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.83%) Salt
9 2 (0.56%) Nagios
9 2 (0.56%) Nmap
10 1 (0.28%) CASB
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
10 1 (0.28%) TrustSec
10 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 203 (56.39%) Cisco
2 76 (21.11%) Palo Alto
3 72 (20.00%) Aruba
4 51 (14.17%) Microsoft
5 45 (12.50%) F5
6 41 (11.39%) ServiceNow
7 36 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 34 (9.44%) Fortinet
9 33 (9.17%) Meraki
10 30 (8.33%) Juniper
11 18 (5.00%) Ekahau
12 16 (4.44%) VMware
13 13 (3.61%) SolarWinds
14 12 (3.33%) Zscaler
15 11 (3.06%) Arista
15 11 (3.06%) Splunk
16 10 (2.78%) ForeScout
17 8 (2.22%) Citrix
18 7 (1.94%) Apple
19 6 (1.67%) Blue Coat