Wireless Contract Job Trends in West London

Wireless
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 32 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Wireless 10 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in West London 3.66% 2.58% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.70% 14.29% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £313 £294 -
25th Percentile £375 £359 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £488 £175
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% +178.57% -41.67%
75th Percentile £438 £578 £224
90th Percentile £458 £621 £252
London median daily rate £413 £469 £475
% change year-on-year -12.00% -1.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year +5.67% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 49 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 26.74% 18.08% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 31 66
10th Percentile £251 £250 £138
25th Percentile £355 £285 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £396
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +13.64% -7.37%
75th Percentile £500 £568 £665
90th Percentile £520 £650 £838
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £62.90
25th Percentile - - £70.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.00% +347.37%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £88.75
90th Percentile - £56.76 £89.50
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +10.83%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Wireless job vacancy trend in West London

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in West London over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in West London

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Wireless

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the West London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Hounslow +8 4 £425 +70.00%
Hillingdon -8 3 £413 -36.54% 1
Wireless
London

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (10.00%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (10.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) VLAN
1 7 (70.00%) VPN
2 6 (60.00%) BGP
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) Network Security
2 6 (60.00%) OSPF
2 6 (60.00%) WAN
2 6 (60.00%) WLAN
3 5 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (50.00%) LAN
3 5 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 5 (50.00%) SSL
4 4 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (40.00%) DMVPN
4 4 (40.00%) EIGRP
5 3 (30.00%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Aviation
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Network Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Network Security Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Security Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (20.00%) CCTV
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) BYOD
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (10.00%) Building Information Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) CAD
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) Network Design
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (10.00%) System Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Tech Ops
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CCNP
2 5 (50.00%) CCSA
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) BICSI Certification
4 1 (10.00%) BICSI RCDD
4 1 (10.00%) CCNA
4 1 (10.00%) MCP
4 1 (10.00%) MCSA
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) F5
2 6 (60.00%) Juniper
3 5 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 5 (50.00%) Meraki
4 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (10.00%) Nokia
6 1 (10.00%) VMware