WLAN Contracts

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WLAN over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 507 540
Rank change year-on-year +24 +33 +168
Contract jobs citing WLAN 56 83 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 1.53% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 98
10th Percentile £318 £220 £300
25th Percentile £325 £400 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £469 £489
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -4.19% -0.15%
75th Percentile £481 £650 £619
90th Percentile £569 £775 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -45.83% +41.18% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.92 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £36.64 -
90th Percentile £46.35 £40.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £24.87 -
% change year-on-year +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 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WLAN in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WLAN in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WLAN over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for WLAN in the UK

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Top 12 Contract 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 3 July 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 +41 49 £413 -17.50% 54
UK excluding London +16 28 £325 -45.83% 32
London +42 23 £425 -5.56% 28
North West +12 8 £325 -50.00% 2
North of England +5 8 £325 -50.00% 7
East of England +26 7 £475 - 7
Midlands +10 6 - - 7
West Midlands +4 6 - - 3
Work from Home +11 4 £450 - 28
South West +26 3 £750 +27.66% 1
Scotland 0 3 £294 -33.80% 1
South East +39 1 - - 5

WLAN
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 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 44 (78.57%) LAN
2 37 (66.07%) Wireless
3 36 (64.29%) WAN
4 33 (58.93%) Firewall
5 23 (41.07%) DHCP
5 23 (41.07%) DNS
6 19 (33.93%) OSPF
7 18 (32.14%) BGP
8 17 (30.36%) Network Security
8 17 (30.36%) SD-WAN
9 16 (28.57%) VPN
10 15 (26.79%) VLAN
11 14 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
11 14 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
11 14 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (23.21%) EIGRP
13 11 (19.64%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (16.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (16.07%) SSL
15 8 (14.29%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.57%) Aviation
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Finance
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (48.21%) Network Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Support Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Administrator
4 4 (7.14%) Network Administrator
5 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Design Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Industrial Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Network Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Network Project Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Network Security Administrator
5 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Security Administrator
6 2 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.79%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) CMDB
1 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 7 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.93%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.36%) CCTV
4 3 (5.36%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (3.57%) IoT
5 2 (3.57%) Life Science
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
1 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
2 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.57%) Unix
4 2 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) ITIL
1 13 (23.21%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) Project Management
4 9 (16.07%) Change Management
4 9 (16.07%) Patch Management
5 8 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 8 (14.29%) Network Design
6 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Network Management
8 5 (8.93%) Performance Metrics
8 5 (8.93%) Problem Management
8 5 (8.93%) Service Management
9 4 (7.14%) Business Continuity
9 4 (7.14%) Data Management
9 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (7.14%) Roadmaps
9 4 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (1.79%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 33 (58.93%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (37.50%) CCNA
3 20 (35.71%) CCNP
4 18 (32.14%) Degree
5 11 (19.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (14.29%) CCSA
7 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
8 3 (5.36%) JNCIA
8 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.57%) CCIE
9 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.79%) CCIE Wireless
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Firmware
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) CA Spectrum
2 4 (7.14%) Ansible
2 4 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (5.36%) Backup Exec
3 3 (5.36%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.57%) Nagios
4 2 (3.57%) Terraform
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (1.79%) Netcool
5 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (87.50%) Cisco
2 18 (32.14%) Meraki
3 13 (23.21%) F5
3 13 (23.21%) SolarWinds
4 12 (21.43%) Juniper
5 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
6 9 (16.07%) CheckPoint
6 9 (16.07%) VMware
7 8 (14.29%) Fortinet
8 7 (12.50%) Peregrine
8 7 (12.50%) Remedy
9 4 (7.14%) Palo Alto
10 3 (5.36%) Aruba
10 3 (5.36%) Symantec
10 3 (5.36%) Veeam
11 2 (3.57%) AirMagnet
11 2 (3.57%) Avaya
11 2 (3.57%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.57%) Oracle
11 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow