Wireless Contracts in Wales

Wireless
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 5 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.45% 1.52% 3.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.36% 12.24% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £213 £244
25th Percentile £453 £218 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £220 £275
Median % change year-on-year +106.82% -20.00% -21.43%
75th Percentile £458 £240 £278
90th Percentile - £257 £295
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -0.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 44 49 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 12.72% 12.44% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 71
10th Percentile £181 £185 £205
25th Percentile £190 £202 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £248 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -38.13% -23.81%
75th Percentile £435 £370 £581
90th Percentile £457 £550 £625
UK median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.49% +50.64%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Wales

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Wireless

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Wireless

Wireless
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +4 3 £455 +88.60% 2
North Wales -2 2 - - 1
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) Skype
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VoIP
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) 802.11
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (20.00%) HSRP
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Anti-Spyware
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) AirWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Cacti
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) Ivanti
2 2 (40.00%) MobileIron
2 2 (40.00%) Remedy
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) VMware