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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 482 487
Rank change year-on-year -72 +5 +99
Contract jobs citing WLAN 69 48 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 1.28% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 61
10th Percentile £190 - £220
25th Percentile £303 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -20.00% +0.96%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £775
90th Percentile £551 £569 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -41.67% +41.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.92
Median hourly rate - - £24.87
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £24.87
% change year-on-year - - -24.64%

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 4,503 3,740 5,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 12.74% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 2,310 3,417
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -0.26% -5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £464 £475
% change year-on-year +2.43% -2.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 172 423
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.57
25th Percentile £20.79 £20.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.72 £45.88
% change year-on-year +89.39% -39.58% +148.00%

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 26 April 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 15 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 26 April 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 -75 62 £433 +2.37% 27
UK excluding London -54 54 £400 +14.29% 26
Midlands -39 19 £200 -37.50% 2
Work from Home -12 18 £425 -19.05% 20
South East -51 14 £440 -7.37% 6
West Midlands - 13 £450 - 2
London -81 10 £530 +24.71% 8
East of England -31 8 £200 -50.00% 2
East Midlands -32 6 £200 -37.50%
North of England -73 6 £450 +38.46% 10
Yorkshire -59 4 £450 +7.14% 1
Scotland +9 3 £270 -8.09% 1
South West -30 2 £356 -44.12% 3
North West -41 2 £537 +65.08% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £468 -

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 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Azure
2 9 (13.04%) AWS
3 8 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.45%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 66 (95.65%) LAN
2 46 (66.67%) WAN
3 31 (44.93%) Wireless
4 30 (43.48%) SD-WAN
5 24 (34.78%) Firewall
6 17 (24.64%) Network Security
6 17 (24.64%) VPN
7 15 (21.74%) BGP
7 15 (21.74%) OSPF
7 15 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (18.84%) VLAN
9 10 (14.49%) Internet
10 9 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (11.59%) DNS
11 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
12 7 (10.14%) 5G
12 7 (10.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (10.14%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (10.14%) DHCP
13 6 (8.70%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.35%) Retail
6 2 (2.90%) Local Government
7 1 (1.45%) Billing
7 1 (1.45%) Finance
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (50.72%) Network Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Architect
3 10 (14.49%) Network Architect
4 7 (10.14%) Lead
5 6 (8.70%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) IT Support
5 6 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Wireless Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Administrator
7 4 (5.80%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Data Network Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Network Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.45%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.45%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.45%) iSeries
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Solaris
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.94%) Network Architecture
2 9 (13.04%) High Availability
2 9 (13.04%) ITSM
3 7 (10.14%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (10.14%) Network Design
3 7 (10.14%) Network Management
3 7 (10.14%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (8.70%) Customer Service
4 6 (8.70%) ITIL
4 6 (8.70%) Service Management
4 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (8.70%) User Experience
5 5 (7.25%) Change Control
5 5 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (7.25%) Incident Management
5 5 (7.25%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (7.25%) Presales
6 4 (5.80%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.25%) Python
2 1 (1.45%) C
2 1 (1.45%) Perl
2 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (46.38%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (42.03%) CCNP
3 22 (31.88%) Security Cleared
4 21 (30.43%) CCIE
5 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
6 5 (7.25%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (4.35%) CCIE Wireless
7 3 (4.35%) CCNA
7 3 (4.35%) CWDP
7 3 (4.35%) CWNA
7 3 (4.35%) CWNE
7 3 (4.35%) CWSP
8 2 (2.90%) Degree
8 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.45%) CCSE
9 1 (1.45%) CCSP
9 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.45%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Ansible
1 6 (8.70%) Nagios
2 4 (5.80%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (62.32%) Cisco
2 16 (23.19%) Aruba
3 13 (18.84%) Juniper
4 10 (14.49%) Ekahau
4 10 (14.49%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.04%) Fortinet
6 7 (10.14%) Meraki
6 7 (10.14%) SolarWinds
7 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.80%) F5
9 3 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
9 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.90%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.45%) Avaya
11 1 (1.45%) HP
11 1 (1.45%) Huawei
11 1 (1.45%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.45%) Mitel
11 1 (1.45%) NetScout
11 1 (1.45%) VMware