WLAN Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 106 109
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +57
Contract jobs citing WLAN 12 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.60% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.61% 1.87% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £473 £355 £338
25th Percentile £488 £502 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £416
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +40.06% -2.06%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £467
90th Percentile £618 £682 £500
England median daily rate £425 £513 £486
% change year-on-year -17.07% +5.45% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £18.50
75th Percentile £31.00 - £19.25
90th Percentile £37.13 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 - £33.44
% change year-on-year - - +34.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

WLAN 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 332 268 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.54% 14.16% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 154 210
10th Percentile £242 £186 £200
25th Percentile £300 £303 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.75% +25.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £672 £689
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 21
10th Percentile £18.50 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £24.75 £32.19 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +13.40%
75th Percentile £38.94 - £67.50
90th Percentile £48.25 £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +36.12%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WLAN

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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 WLAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Staffordshire - 6 - -
Coventry - 3 £500 - 1
Warwickshire -6 2 £625 +7.20% 1
WLAN
England

WLAN
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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
1 12 (100.00%) LAN
1 12 (100.00%) WAN
2 10 (83.33%) DHCP
2 10 (83.33%) DNS
2 10 (83.33%) Wireless
3 6 (50.00%) BGP
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (50.00%) OSPF
3 6 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (41.67%) IPv4
4 5 (41.67%) IPv6
4 5 (41.67%) MPLS
4 5 (41.67%) PuTTY
4 5 (41.67%) VLAN
4 5 (41.67%) VXLAN
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 4 (33.33%) VPN
6 3 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Network Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Support Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (50.00%) Project Management
3 5 (41.67%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Process Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Zero Trust
4 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Network Design
4 4 (33.33%) Network Management
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (83.33%) CCNP
3 9 (75.00%) Degree
4 6 (50.00%) CCNA
5 5 (41.67%) CCIE
5 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
6 4 (33.33%) CCSP
6 4 (33.33%) CISSP
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (25.00%) CCIE Security
8 2 (16.67%) JNCIE
8 2 (16.67%) JNCIP
9 1 (8.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (8.33%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (8.33%) CWSP
9 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) GDPR
1 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (41.67%) NIST
1 5 (41.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) F5
3 5 (41.67%) Fortinet
3 5 (41.67%) Meraki
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 5 (41.67%) Peregrine
3 5 (41.67%) Remedy
4 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) Forcepoint
5 2 (16.67%) Juniper
6 1 (8.33%) Aruba
6 1 (8.33%) Zscaler