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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 271 197
Rank change year-on-year -44 -74 +104
Contract jobs citing Wireless 295 320 618
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.87% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.45% 7.24% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 199 431
10th Percentile £170 £229 £213
25th Percentile £204 £338 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £490 £550 £531
90th Percentile £588 £592 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £420 £425
% change year-on-year -10.71% -1.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 11 30
10th Percentile £15.50 £22.40 £15.35
25th Percentile £16.71 £27.53 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% +94.24% -1.96%
75th Percentile £31.00 £52.20 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £52.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £24.25
% change year-on-year -60.87% +100.25% +55.85%

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 3,961 4,417 6,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.33% 12.03% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,545 4,073
10th Percentile £207 £222 £213
25th Percentile £360 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £681 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 160 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.99 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% -10.38% +29.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.14 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £51.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -17.07% -9.28% +25.53%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -39 263 £380 -13.64% 560
UK excluding London -23 200 £375 -10.71% 508
London -40 73 £413 -8.33% 156
Midlands +6 59 £375 -3.23% 66
South East +15 58 £208 -22.35% 253
West Midlands +3 50 £380 -34.48% 44
Work from Home -19 47 £450 - 187
North of England -34 45 £330 -30.53% 44
East of England -15 25 £525 +26.13% 53
North West -27 23 £330 -32.31% 21
Yorkshire -33 15 £445 +4.71% 12
Scotland +12 9 £425 +6.25% 29
East Midlands -23 9 £158 -58.00% 20
North East -3 7 £175 -68.18% 11
South West -15 7 £180 -58.62% 51
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £760 - 1

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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.03%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 56 (18.98%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.75%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.34%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (17.97%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (12.88%) AWS
3 32 (10.85%) Azure
4 19 (6.44%) SaaS
5 18 (6.10%) Sauce Labs
6 9 (3.05%) GCP
7 8 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (2.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (2.03%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.68%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.34%) IaaS
11 1 (0.34%) OCI
11 1 (0.34%) PaaS
11 1 (0.34%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 121 (41.02%) Firewall
2 85 (28.81%) WAN
3 76 (25.76%) LAN
4 68 (23.05%) DNS
5 60 (20.34%) VPN
6 56 (18.98%) DHCP
7 48 (16.27%) BGP
8 47 (15.93%) Cisco Wireless
9 43 (14.58%) Network Security
10 39 (13.22%) Cisco ISE
10 39 (13.22%) OSPF
11 34 (11.53%) SD-WAN
12 32 (10.85%) VLAN
13 29 (9.83%) WLAN
14 26 (8.81%) TCP/IP
15 22 (7.46%) IPsec
16 21 (7.12%) MPLS
17 19 (6.44%) SSL
17 19 (6.44%) Wi-Fi
18 17 (5.76%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.10%) MySQL
1 18 (6.10%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.68%) Power BI
2 2 (0.68%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (6.10%) Android Studio
1 18 (6.10%) Browser DevTools
1 18 (6.10%) Eclipse
1 18 (6.10%) Xcode
2 5 (1.69%) JIRA
3 3 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.34%) KGDB
4 1 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 88 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.59%) Telecoms
3 43 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 36 (12.20%) Manufacturing
5 34 (11.53%) Finance
6 24 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.14%) Banking
7 23 (7.80%) Electronics
7 23 (7.80%) Marketing
8 12 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.73%) Retail
10 7 (2.37%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.03%) Legal
11 6 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.36%) Local Government
13 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (26.10%) Network Engineer
2 34 (11.53%) Support Engineer
3 29 (9.83%) 2nd Line Support
4 28 (9.49%) Desktop Support
4 28 (9.49%) IT Support
5 27 (9.15%) Senior
5 27 (9.15%) Technical Support
6 24 (8.14%) Analyst
7 23 (7.80%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 23 (7.80%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 18 (6.10%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 18 (6.10%) Technical Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) Technical Support Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) UX Engineer
9 16 (5.42%) Security Engineer
10 15 (5.08%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (4.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 13 (4.41%) IT Engineer
12 13 (4.41%) Support Analyst
13 12 (4.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.78%) 802.1X
2 18 (6.10%) Ajax
2 18 (6.10%) AngularJS
2 18 (6.10%) CSS
2 18 (6.10%) GraphQL
2 18 (6.10%) React
3 1 (0.34%) LDAP
3 1 (0.34%) REST
3 1 (0.34%) SAML
3 1 (0.34%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 101 (34.24%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.12%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.44%) Mobile App
4 15 (5.08%) IoT
5 12 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.07%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.71%) CMDB
8 7 (2.37%) NHS
9 5 (1.69%) Life Science
9 5 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.36%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.36%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.36%) PKI
11 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.02%) CCTV
11 3 (1.02%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.68%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.34%) Android
2 52 (17.63%) Windows
3 49 (16.61%) Mac OS
4 27 (9.15%) Linux
5 20 (6.78%) Unix
6 13 (4.41%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.69%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.02%) VMS
9 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (12.20%) ITIL
3 31 (10.51%) User Experience
4 26 (8.81%) Programme Management
5 24 (8.14%) Computer Science
6 23 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (7.80%) Digital Marketing
7 22 (7.46%) Change Management
7 22 (7.46%) Customer Service
8 21 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (6.78%) Network Management
9 20 (6.78%) Network Monitoring
10 18 (6.10%) Mobile Application Development
10 18 (6.10%) OO
11 17 (5.76%) Migration
11 17 (5.76%) Network Design
12 16 (5.42%) Project Delivery
13 15 (5.08%) Incident Response
13 15 (5.08%) Mentoring
13 15 (5.08%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.88%) Python
2 21 (7.12%) Perl
3 18 (6.10%) Java
3 18 (6.10%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.71%) Lisp
5 2 (0.68%) C
5 2 (0.68%) C++
5 2 (0.68%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.34%) Bash
6 1 (0.34%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 96 (32.54%) Cisco Certification
2 83 (28.14%) Security Cleared
3 72 (24.41%) SC Cleared
4 65 (22.03%) CCNP
5 34 (11.53%) CCNA
6 32 (10.85%) Degree
7 20 (6.78%) CCIE
8 19 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (5.42%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.05%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.71%) CCSA
11 8 (2.71%) JNCIE
12 7 (2.37%) CISSP
13 6 (2.03%) ECDL
13 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.03%) PMI Certification
13 6 (2.03%) PMP
14 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.36%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.78%) SLA
2 8 (2.71%) GDPR
2 8 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.03%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (0.68%) GxP
5 2 (0.68%) PMO
5 2 (0.68%) QA
6 1 (0.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.39%) Firmware
3 10 (3.39%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (6.78%) Ansible
1 20 (6.78%) FortiGate
2 11 (3.73%) Terraform
3 6 (2.03%) OpenView
4 4 (1.36%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (1.02%) Nessus
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.68%) NSN NetAct
6 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Nmap
7 1 (0.34%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 182 (61.69%) Cisco
2 60 (20.34%) Microsoft
3 52 (17.63%) F5
4 44 (14.92%) Dell
5 42 (14.24%) Apple
6 41 (13.90%) HP
7 38 (12.88%) Juniper
8 36 (12.20%) ServiceNow
9 35 (11.86%) Fortinet
10 30 (10.17%) SolarWinds
11 27 (9.15%) CheckPoint
12 26 (8.81%) Meraki
12 26 (8.81%) Palo Alto
13 24 (8.14%) SAP
14 21 (7.12%) Oracle
14 21 (7.12%) Splunk
15 19 (6.44%) VMware
16 17 (5.76%) Remedy
17 13 (4.41%) Aruba
18 10 (3.39%) Ekahau