Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 552 692
Rank change year-on-year +58 +140 -74
Contract jobs citing WLAN 91 141 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.67% 1.97% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 88 107
10th Percentile £220 £313 £198
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £486 £452
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +7.52% +19.74%
75th Percentile £775 £619 £569
90th Percentile £863 £803 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +41.18% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile - - £17.45
25th Percentile £23.92 £31.50 £28.41
Median hourly rate £24.87 £33.00 £29.71
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% +11.09% -8.60%
75th Percentile £25.83 £34.50 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.87 £33.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -24.64% +6.45% -4.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

WLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,443 7,173 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.35% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,255 4,651 6,275
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 474 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £68.21 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Top 14 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 7 May 2024. 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 +69 79 £525 +10.53% 45
UK excluding London +45 43 £600 +41.18% 36
London +78 39 £488 -22.53% 12
Work from Home +86 31 £450 -14.29% 15
Midlands +35 11 £750 +76.47% 9
West Midlands +26 10 £750 +76.47% 8
North of England +18 8 £650 +73.33% 7
South West +16 8 £600 +60.00% 4
Yorkshire +31 6 £650 - 2
East of England +8 6 £575 - 5
South East -2 6 £388 -13.89% 10
Scotland +43 3 £444 +7.58%
Wales +20 2 £220 +10.00% 1
North West +11 2 - - 4

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 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) nginx
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.09%) AWS
2 6 (6.59%) Azure
2 6 (6.59%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.49%) Route 53
4 4 (4.40%) WhatsApp
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.30%) IaaS
5 3 (3.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 79 (86.81%) LAN
2 65 (71.43%) WAN
3 54 (59.34%) Firewall
4 44 (48.35%) Wireless
5 36 (39.56%) VPN
6 20 (21.98%) SD-WAN
7 19 (20.88%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (18.68%) BGP
8 17 (18.68%) OSPF
8 17 (18.68%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (15.38%) IPsec
10 12 (13.19%) MPLS
11 10 (10.99%) Cisco Wireless
11 10 (10.99%) Internet
11 10 (10.99%) VoIP
12 9 (9.89%) DHCP
12 9 (9.89%) DNS
12 9 (9.89%) PBX
13 8 (8.79%) Cisco ISE
14 7 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Gradle
1 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (17.58%) Telecoms
2 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Finance
6 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Network Engineer
2 20 (21.98%) Architect
3 16 (17.58%) Network Specialist
4 15 (16.48%) Senior
5 11 (12.09%) Network Architect
6 8 (8.79%) Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Lead
9 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Network Consultant
10 4 (4.40%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Network Technician
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Network Technician
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Technician
10 4 (4.40%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Web Services
2 2 (2.20%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.20%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.10%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Data Centre
2 14 (15.38%) PKI
3 11 (12.09%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.49%) CMDB
4 5 (5.49%) NHS
5 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.30%) Solar Power
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.10%) CCTV
7 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.40%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.20%) CentOS
5 2 (2.20%) Unix
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.10%) Android
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.10%) Solaris
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (18.68%) Migration
3 15 (16.48%) Threat Management
4 14 (15.38%) Change Management
4 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (13.19%) Network Architecture
5 12 (13.19%) Storage Management
6 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
7 10 (10.99%) Performance Management
7 10 (10.99%) Programme Management
8 9 (9.89%) Analytics
8 9 (9.89%) Capacity Management
8 9 (9.89%) Change Control
8 9 (9.89%) Data Analytics
8 9 (9.89%) ITIL
8 9 (9.89%) Network Design
8 9 (9.89%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (9.89%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.49%) Python
2 4 (4.40%) Bash
3 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.10%) Java
4 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.99%) CCIE
5 9 (9.89%) CCIE Data Center
6 7 (7.69%) CCNP
7 6 (6.59%) CCNA
8 4 (4.40%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.30%) Degree
10 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) SLA
2 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.30%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.30%) Ansible
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.30%) SCCM
3 2 (2.20%) Puppet
3 2 (2.20%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 51 (56.04%) Cisco
2 36 (39.56%) Palo Alto
3 27 (29.67%) Fortinet
4 18 (19.78%) Juniper
5 11 (12.09%) Extreme Networks
6 10 (10.99%) CheckPoint
6 10 (10.99%) Infoblox
6 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.79%) Aruba
8 7 (7.69%) Meraki
9 6 (6.59%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.49%) Symantec
10 5 (5.49%) Zscaler
11 4 (4.40%) Blue Coat
11 4 (4.40%) Citrix
11 4 (4.40%) F5
11 4 (4.40%) HP
11 4 (4.40%) VMware
12 3 (3.30%) WatchGuard
13 2 (2.20%) SonicWALL