Wi-Fi Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 99 110
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 10 17 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.89% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.62% 4.58% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 19
10th Percentile £173 £154 £163
25th Percentile £187 £190 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £300 £275
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% +57.14%
75th Percentile £456 £488 £394
90th Percentile £497 £613 £700
England median daily rate £444 £350 £388
% change year-on-year +26.79% -9.68% -3.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Wi-Fi 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 371 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.05% 19.39% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 218 220
10th Percentile £145 £200 £263
25th Percentile £250 £302 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £609
90th Percentile £693 £708 £700
England median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 7
10th Percentile £12.66 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.12 £13.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +7.84% +8.82%
75th Percentile £22.70 £23.75 £21.80
90th Percentile £33.58 £28.75 £24.45
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
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 Wi-Fi within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Birmingham +5 3 £355 -25.26% 11
Coventry - 2 £438 -
Staffordshire - 2 £200 - 3
Solihull +12 1 - - 6
Shropshire -5 1 - -
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (20.00%) VoIP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) BGP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) ICT Technician
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (30.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) MCSE
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Apple
3 2 (20.00%) Aruba
3 2 (20.00%) Mitel
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki