WLAN Contract Job Trends

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 483 514
Rank change year-on-year -70 +31 +42
Contract jobs citing WLAN 91 50 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 1.35% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 26 47
10th Percentile £190 £285 £220
25th Percentile £356 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £529 £484 £650
90th Percentile £588 £559 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £325 £600
% change year-on-year +38.46% -45.83% +39.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.00 £23.92
Median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +20.63% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £37.13 £25.83
90th Percentile - £49.45 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -36.67% +20.63% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

WLAN 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 4,781 3,710 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 12.50% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 2,279 3,184
10th Percentile £258 £222 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £470 £488
% change year-on-year +2.26% -3.59% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 174 422
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.81 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.88 £42.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +6.88% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.97 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.50 £71.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £31.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year -6.69% -34.57% +150.46%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

WLAN job vacancy trend in the UK

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WLAN

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WLAN

WLAN
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 WLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -79 84 £450 +9.09% 21
UK excluding London -56 71 £450 +38.46% 21
North of England -50 25 £575 +76.92% 3
Midlands -38 24 £200 -37.50% 1
Work from Home -32 22 £529 +17.56% 8
West Midlands -42 16 £450 - 1
North West -33 13 £575 +76.92% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £450 -
South East -47 11 £373 - 9
London -71 10 £500 +17.65% 6
East Midlands -13 8 £200 -37.50%
East of England -27 8 £200 -57.89% 2
North East - 6 - -
Scotland -11 3 £515 +75.32%
Northern Ireland - 2 £468 -
South West -29 1 £400 -46.67% 2

WLAN
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 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) Azure
2 18 (19.78%) AWS
3 13 (14.29%) OCI
3 13 (14.29%) SaaS
4 11 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.20%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.10%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 73 (80.22%) LAN
2 60 (65.93%) WAN
3 44 (48.35%) SD-WAN
4 40 (43.96%) Wireless
5 36 (39.56%) Firewall
6 28 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (29.67%) BGP
8 26 (28.57%) OSPF
9 16 (17.58%) Network Security
9 16 (17.58%) VLAN
10 15 (16.48%) BIG-IP
10 15 (16.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 14 (15.38%) VXLAN
12 12 (13.19%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (12.09%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (12.09%) VPN
14 10 (10.99%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (9.89%) Internet
16 8 (8.79%) 5G
16 8 (8.79%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (12.09%) GitLab
2 8 (8.79%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (17.58%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.20%) Finance
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Billing
5 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Legal
5 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.10%) Military
5 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (45.05%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.68%) Senior
3 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) IT Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) IT Support
3 11 (12.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Support Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Architect
6 7 (7.69%) Network Architect
6 7 (7.69%) Wireless Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Lead
8 5 (5.49%) WAN Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Data Network Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Implementation Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.27%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.99%) Onboarding
4 9 (9.89%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (8.79%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.40%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.10%) iSeries
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Solaris
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.37%) High Availability
2 17 (18.68%) Network Architecture
3 15 (16.48%) Load Balancing
3 15 (16.48%) Zero Trust
4 14 (15.38%) Network Design
5 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
7 11 (12.09%) ITSM
8 10 (10.99%) DevOps
8 10 (10.99%) Network Management
8 10 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (8.79%) Customer Service
10 7 (7.69%) Analytics
10 7 (7.69%) ITIL
10 7 (7.69%) Runbook
10 7 (7.69%) User Experience
11 6 (6.59%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.68%) Python
2 1 (1.10%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (28.57%) CCNP
2 26 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 18 (19.78%) CCIE
5 5 (5.49%) CWNA
6 4 (4.40%) CCIE Wireless
6 4 (4.40%) CWDP
6 4 (4.40%) CWNE
6 4 (4.40%) CWSP
7 2 (2.20%) CCNA
7 2 (2.20%) Degree
7 2 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.10%) CCSE
8 1 (1.10%) CCSP
8 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.10%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Ansible
2 13 (14.29%) Terraform
3 8 (8.79%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.30%) Nagios
5 1 (1.10%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (51.65%) Cisco
2 33 (36.26%) Aruba
3 23 (25.27%) Palo Alto
4 16 (17.58%) F5
5 12 (13.19%) Arista
5 12 (13.19%) Fortinet
6 11 (12.09%) Ekahau
6 11 (12.09%) Juniper
6 11 (12.09%) Meraki
7 8 (8.79%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.49%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.40%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.30%) CheckPoint
10 3 (3.30%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (1.10%) Mitel
11 1 (1.10%) Rockwell
11 1 (1.10%) Starlink
11 1 (1.10%) Symantec
11 1 (1.10%) VMware