Wireless Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireless
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 94 104
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Wireless 20 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.37% 0.83% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.36% 4.59% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 21
10th Percentile £168 £200 £250
25th Percentile £205 £242 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £348 £420
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -17.26% +68.00%
75th Percentile £479 £654 £463
90th Percentile £550 £1,000 £525
England median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £19.08 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile £34.90 - -
England median hourly rate £24.83 £19.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.35% -61.31% +53.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 176 370 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.04% 18.12% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 221 223
10th Percentile £161 £200 £253
25th Percentile £272 £300 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £451
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.21% +9.21%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £606
90th Percentile £695 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 11
10th Percentile £14.45 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.40 £13.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £19.95 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +37.84% -10.98% +28.06%
75th Percentile £38.62 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.63 £37.58 -
England median hourly rate £36.65 £40.00 £18.37
% change year-on-year -8.39% +117.75% -23.17%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireless in the West Midlands

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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 Wireless within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +13 7 £255 -74.50% 9
Warwickshire +3 6 - - 7
Staffordshire +8 3 - - 6
Solihull +7 2 - -
Coventry +4 1 £205 -21.90% 6
Wireless
England

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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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) DHCP
2 11 (55.00%) DNS
3 9 (45.00%) WAN
4 8 (40.00%) LAN
5 7 (35.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (25.00%) Network Security
7 4 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (20.00%) Unified Communications
8 3 (15.00%) BGP
8 3 (15.00%) EIGRP
8 3 (15.00%) OSPF
8 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (15.00%) VLAN
8 3 (15.00%) VPN
8 3 (15.00%) Wireshark
9 2 (10.00%) HTTP
9 2 (10.00%) IPsec
9 2 (10.00%) TACACS
9 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (15.00%) Legal
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Network Support
4 2 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Change Management
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (20.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Network Design
4 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (10.00%) Coaching
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Product Backlog
5 2 (10.00%) Product Requirements
5 2 (10.00%) Product Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Product Vision
5 2 (10.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (35.00%) CCNA
2 7 (35.00%) CCNP
3 6 (30.00%) CCIE
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (30.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (5.00%) MCP
6 1 (5.00%) MCSA
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) OpenView
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (10.00%) Nagios
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Cisco
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (20.00%) F5
5 3 (15.00%) Juniper
5 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (10.00%) Arista
6 2 (10.00%) Meraki
6 2 (10.00%) Peregrine
6 2 (10.00%) Remedy
6 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (5.00%) Aruba
7 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
7 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.00%) Zscaler