Wireless Contracts

Wireless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 250 228
Rank change year-on-year -18 -22 +101
Contract jobs citing Wireless 276 408 682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.95% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.36% 7.45% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 252 459
10th Percentile £219 £170 £200
25th Percentile £334 £261 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -2.94% +5.52%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £500
90th Percentile £599 £650 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +9.38% - +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 36 23
10th Percentile - £12.75 £15.90
25th Percentile £14.20 £16.12 £19.22
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.97 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.52% -60.07% +53.85%
75th Percentile £58.94 £24.04 £80.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £58.63 £84.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.25 £17.69 £22.26
% change year-on-year -13.79% -20.53% -9.24%

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 3,752 5,474 7,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 12.73% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,273 3,273 4,657
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.16% +3.30%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 418 472
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.44 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -32.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £46.14 £18.47
% change year-on-year -47.59% +149.85% -14.12%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Top 16 Contract 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 13 May 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 -25 234 £468 +13.33% 544
UK excluding London -5 164 £438 +9.38% 455
London -13 89 £475 +18.75% 159
Work from Home +39 75 £475 +5.56% 225
North of England +6 42 £395 -5.13% 77
East of England +33 37 £490 +16.67% 76
South East +5 34 £425 +13.33% 161
North West +9 32 £395 -0.25% 46
South West +25 15 £397 -23.61% 51
Scotland +17 13 £400 +77.56% 24
Wales +15 13 £370 +31.56% 7
Midlands -3 12 £258 -6.36% 66
Yorkshire +12 9 £220 -63.64% 23
West Midlands +9 9 £210 -50.59% 35
East Midlands 0 3 £369 +34.09% 25
North East -9 1 £550 -8.33% 8

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Confluence
2 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (9.42%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.26%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.09%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.72%) Revit
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.36%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.36%) Sketch
7 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.36%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.20%) Azure
2 33 (11.96%) AWS
3 21 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.26%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.17%) Google Workspace
6 5 (1.81%) GCP
7 4 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.72%) Akamai
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.72%) Datadog
9 2 (0.72%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.72%) Serverless
9 2 (0.72%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 147 (53.26%) Firewall
2 96 (34.78%) WAN
3 85 (30.80%) LAN
4 80 (28.99%) Network Security
5 76 (27.54%) VPN
6 52 (18.84%) BGP
6 52 (18.84%) OSPF
7 46 (16.67%) SD-WAN
8 41 (14.86%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (14.13%) DNS
10 37 (13.41%) Cisco Wireless
11 34 (12.32%) DHCP
12 32 (11.59%) TCP/IP
13 31 (11.23%) Cisco Nexus
14 29 (10.51%) VLAN
14 29 (10.51%) WLAN
15 28 (10.14%) Internet
16 27 (9.78%) Cisco ASA
16 27 (9.78%) Cisco Firepower
17 26 (9.42%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.45%) InfluxDB
1 4 (1.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.72%) Looker
2 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.36%) Big Data
3 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.45%) GitLab
1 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.45%) JIRA
1 4 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.09%) KGDB
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Selenium
3 1 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 88 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.87%) Telecoms
3 28 (10.14%) Finance
4 26 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.62%) Legal
7 8 (2.90%) Banking
7 8 (2.90%) Electronics
7 8 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.81%) Marketing
11 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Advertising
13 2 (0.72%) Back Office
13 2 (0.72%) German Language
13 2 (0.72%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.72%) Retail
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 127 (46.01%) Network Engineer
2 30 (10.87%) Senior
3 19 (6.88%) Cisco Engineer
3 19 (6.88%) Senior Network Engineer
4 17 (6.16%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 17 (6.16%) Support Engineer
5 14 (5.07%) Architect
5 14 (5.07%) Network Architect
5 14 (5.07%) Security Engineer
6 13 (4.71%) Network Security Engineer
7 11 (3.99%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (3.62%) Embedded Engineer
8 10 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.26%) Consultant
9 9 (3.26%) Developer
10 7 (2.54%) Analyst
10 7 (2.54%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (2.54%) IT Engineer
10 7 (2.54%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (2.54%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.70%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.90%) REST
3 3 (1.09%) RESTful
4 2 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.72%) LDAP
4 2 (0.72%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.72%) SAML
4 2 (0.72%) Swagger
5 1 (0.36%) Java RMI
5 1 (0.36%) JSON
5 1 (0.36%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.36%) NumPy
5 1 (0.36%) Pandas
5 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.36%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.36%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.62%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (2.90%) CMDB
5 7 (2.54%) CUDA
6 6 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.17%) PKI
6 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.81%) FPGA
7 5 (1.81%) NHS
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.45%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.45%) IoT
8 4 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.32%) Windows
2 26 (9.42%) Linux
3 14 (5.07%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.62%) Mac OS
5 9 (3.26%) Android
6 8 (2.90%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.54%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.72%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (15.22%) Network Design
3 26 (9.42%) ITIL
3 26 (9.42%) Network Monitoring
4 23 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 22 (7.97%) Computer Science
6 21 (7.61%) Change Management
7 19 (6.88%) Agile
8 16 (5.80%) High Availability
8 16 (5.80%) Migration
9 14 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (4.71%) Network Architecture
10 13 (4.71%) Service Delivery
11 12 (4.35%) Incident Management
11 12 (4.35%) Load Balancing
11 12 (4.35%) Mentoring
11 12 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (4.35%) Test Automation
12 11 (3.99%) Network Management
12 11 (3.99%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.51%) Python
2 9 (3.26%) C++
2 9 (3.26%) Java
3 8 (2.90%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.17%) SQL
5 5 (1.81%) C
6 4 (1.45%) C#
6 4 (1.45%) Go
7 3 (1.09%) Perl
8 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.36%) Lisp
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 83 (30.07%) Cisco Certification
2 60 (21.74%) CCNP
3 46 (16.67%) Degree
4 37 (13.41%) Security Cleared
5 32 (11.59%) CCNA
5 32 (11.59%) SC Cleared
6 23 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.52%) CCIE
8 6 (2.17%) CCSA
8 6 (2.17%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.45%) CISSP
9 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.45%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.09%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.09%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.07%) SLA
2 10 (3.62%) QA
3 6 (2.17%) GDPR
4 3 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.09%) NIST
4 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.54%) Docker
3 7 (2.54%) Firmware
4 4 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.72%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (5.80%) FortiGate
2 14 (5.07%) Ansible
3 8 (2.90%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.17%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (2.17%) SCCM
4 6 (2.17%) SmoothWall
4 6 (2.17%) Terraform
5 5 (1.81%) Cacti
6 4 (1.45%) CA Spectrum
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.72%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.72%) Grafana
8 2 (0.72%) Nagios
8 2 (0.72%) OPNET
8 2 (0.72%) XenMobile
9 1 (0.36%) CASB
9 1 (0.36%) Netcool
9 1 (0.36%) OfficeScan
9 1 (0.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 154 (55.80%) Cisco
2 68 (24.64%) Palo Alto
3 37 (13.41%) Juniper
4 36 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 32 (11.59%) F5
5 32 (11.59%) Meraki
6 30 (10.87%) Aruba
7 27 (9.78%) CheckPoint
7 27 (9.78%) Fortinet
8 26 (9.42%) SolarWinds
9 17 (6.16%) Infoblox
10 13 (4.71%) Apple
10 13 (4.71%) VMware
11 12 (4.35%) HP
12 11 (3.99%) Extreme Networks
13 10 (3.62%) Arista
13 10 (3.62%) Ekahau
13 10 (3.62%) Zscaler
14 9 (3.26%) Ruckus Wireless
15 7 (2.54%) ServiceNow