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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 269 212
Rank change year-on-year -75 -57 +41
Contract jobs citing Wireless 302 277 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.94% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.92% 7.07% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 204 297
10th Percentile £170 £220 £176
25th Percentile £190 £399 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £461 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +8.41% -
75th Percentile £520 £556 £525
90th Percentile £588 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 40
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.66 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +30.27% -59.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £65.00 £24.81
90th Percentile £38.75 - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £28.58 £21.50
% change year-on-year -44.02% +32.93% -24.56%

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 4,363 3,919 5,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 13.35% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 2,409 3,579
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £368 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 142 395
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.01 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.46 £18.47
Median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +30.00% -29.16% +148.00%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -70 274 £350 -26.32% 247
UK excluding London -67 194 £400 -11.11% 219
London -54 82 £213 -55.73% 62
Work from Home -25 69 £450 -5.26% 72
South East -11 62 £413 +1.23% 74
North of England -61 47 £300 -33.26% 59
Midlands -19 46 £340 +13.33% 30
North West -26 37 £381 -15.35% 35
West Midlands -35 37 £375 +17.19% 16
East of England -50 20 £375 -23.47% 40
South West -36 15 £513 +24.24% 15
East Midlands -24 9 £158 -47.50% 14
Scotland +5 7 £450 +12.50% 6
North East -6 7 £175 -68.18% 9
Yorkshire -59 3 £440 +4.76% 17
Wales -21 2 £400 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £430 - 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 13 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 54 (17.88%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (6.29%) MS Visio
4 16 (5.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (18.54%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (14.57%) Azure
3 42 (13.91%) AWS
4 12 (3.97%) GCP
5 11 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (3.31%) SaaS
7 8 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.32%) Sauce Labs
9 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.66%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.99%) PaaS
11 3 (0.99%) Route 53
11 3 (0.99%) Slack
12 2 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.66%) IaaS
13 1 (0.33%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.33%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 125 (41.39%) Firewall
2 83 (27.48%) WAN
3 80 (26.49%) LAN
4 60 (19.87%) VPN
5 47 (15.56%) BGP
5 47 (15.56%) Network Security
6 38 (12.58%) Cisco ISE
6 38 (12.58%) OSPF
7 37 (12.25%) Wi-Fi
8 36 (11.92%) DNS
9 34 (11.26%) SD-WAN
9 34 (11.26%) VLAN
10 32 (10.60%) Cisco Wireless
10 32 (10.60%) DHCP
11 26 (8.61%) Cisco ASA
12 25 (8.28%) IPsec
13 24 (7.95%) WLAN
14 23 (7.62%) TCP/IP
15 22 (7.28%) MPLS
16 18 (5.96%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.32%) MySQL
1 7 (2.32%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.33%) Power BI
2 1 (0.33%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (5.30%) Burp Suite
2 14 (4.64%) Metasploit
3 7 (2.32%) Android Studio
3 7 (2.32%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (2.32%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.32%) Xcode
4 2 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.91%) Public Sector
3 35 (11.59%) Telecoms
4 34 (11.26%) Finance
5 28 (9.27%) Manufacturing
6 24 (7.95%) Marketing
7 23 (7.62%) Electronics
8 19 (6.29%) Banking
9 17 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (3.31%) Retail
11 8 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.32%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.99%) Local Government
14 5 (1.66%) Legal
15 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.66%) Billing
16 2 (0.66%) Military
17 1 (0.33%) Back Office
17 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 90 (29.80%) Network Engineer
2 38 (12.58%) IT Support
3 32 (10.60%) Desktop Support
4 29 (9.60%) 2nd Line Support
5 27 (8.94%) Senior
6 23 (7.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 23 (7.62%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
6 23 (7.62%) Support Engineer
7 21 (6.95%) Architect
8 19 (6.29%) Cisco Engineer
8 19 (6.29%) Penetration Tester
8 19 (6.29%) Tester
9 16 (5.30%) Senior Network Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) Wireless Engineer
10 15 (4.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 14 (4.64%) Analyst
11 14 (4.64%) Network Architect
11 14 (4.64%) Technical Support
12 13 (4.30%) Wireless Network Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.25%) 802.1X
2 9 (2.98%) SAML
3 7 (2.32%) Ajax
3 7 (2.32%) AngularJS
3 7 (2.32%) CSS
3 7 (2.32%) GraphQL
3 7 (2.32%) LDAP
3 7 (2.32%) React
4 6 (1.99%) X-Windows
5 2 (0.66%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (0.66%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.33%) Qt
6 1 (0.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 74 (24.50%) Data Centre
2 22 (7.28%) IoT
3 16 (5.30%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.30%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.98%) NHS
7 7 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.99%) CMDB
8 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.99%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.66%) BYOD
9 5 (1.66%) Life Science
9 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.66%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 61 (20.20%) Windows
2 47 (15.56%) Android
3 43 (14.24%) Mac OS
4 22 (7.28%) Linux
4 22 (7.28%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.30%) Windows Server
6 14 (4.64%) Unix
7 6 (1.99%) Mac OS X
8 4 (1.32%) CatOS
9 3 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.99%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.66%) Debian
10 2 (0.66%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.66%) VMS
11 1 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (12.58%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (8.61%) Network Segmentation
3 26 (8.61%) Programme Management
4 23 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (7.62%) Digital Marketing
5 22 (7.28%) Regulatory Compliance
5 22 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (6.95%) Network Monitoring
6 21 (6.95%) Zero Trust
7 20 (6.62%) Cloud Security
7 20 (6.62%) ITIL
7 20 (6.62%) ITSM
8 19 (6.29%) Asset Management
8 19 (6.29%) Customer Service
8 19 (6.29%) Penetration Testing
9 18 (5.96%) Migration
9 18 (5.96%) Network Management
9 18 (5.96%) User Experience
10 17 (5.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.28%) Python
2 9 (2.98%) Perl
3 8 (2.65%) Lisp
4 7 (2.32%) Java
4 7 (2.32%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.32%) C++
6 2 (0.66%) C
7 1 (0.33%) Bash
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.33%) Korn
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
7 1 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 91 (30.13%) SC Cleared
3 65 (21.52%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (19.54%) CCNP
5 34 (11.26%) CCNA
6 28 (9.27%) Degree
7 14 (4.64%) CHECK Team Member
8 13 (4.30%) CCIE
9 12 (3.97%) CREST Certified
9 12 (3.97%) Cyber Scheme
10 11 (3.64%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (3.64%) Postgraduate
11 9 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.32%) CISSP
13 6 (1.99%) ECDL
13 6 (1.99%) JNCIA
13 6 (1.99%) JNCIP
13 6 (1.99%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.99%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (5.96%) GDPR
2 18 (5.96%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.64%) QA
4 11 (3.64%) PMO
5 7 (2.32%) NIST
5 7 (2.32%) SLA
6 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.66%) GxP
8 1 (0.33%) DICOM
8 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.33%) JTAG
System Software
1 34 (11.26%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.30%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.65%) Firmware
5 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (5.96%) FortiGate
2 17 (5.63%) Nmap
3 15 (4.97%) Ansible
4 9 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.65%) SCCM
5 8 (2.65%) Terraform
6 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.32%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.99%) Grafana
8 5 (1.66%) Salt
9 3 (0.99%) 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
1 165 (54.64%) Cisco
2 62 (20.53%) Palo Alto
3 44 (14.57%) Microsoft
4 43 (14.24%) Aruba
5 42 (13.91%) Apple
5 42 (13.91%) HP
5 42 (13.91%) ServiceNow
6 39 (12.91%) Dell
7 33 (10.93%) CheckPoint
7 33 (10.93%) F5
8 32 (10.60%) Meraki
9 25 (8.28%) Ekahau
10 24 (7.95%) Fortinet
11 23 (7.62%) Juniper
11 23 (7.62%) SAP
12 19 (6.29%) VMware
13 14 (4.64%) Remedy
13 14 (4.64%) SolarWinds
13 14 (4.64%) Splunk
14 9 (2.98%) Arista