802.1X Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IEEE 802.1X
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring 802.1X skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.19% - 0.053%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £374 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £389 - -
England median daily rate £515 £438 £575
% change year-on-year +17.71% -23.91% +16.16%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

802.1X falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 552 270 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.66% 18.60% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 162 175
10th Percentile £375 £381 £303
25th Percentile £450 £425 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +13.51% -12.98%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £605
90th Percentile £679 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £20.25 - £15.33
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £77.25 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 802.1X relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

802.1X job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

802.1X
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing 802.1X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing 802.1X

802.1X
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.1X within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Warwickshire - 5 £380 - 1
802.1X
England

802.1X
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco IPT
1 5 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) IPsec
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) SSL
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Management
1 5 (100.00%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) F5
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper