WLAN Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WLAN 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.46% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 146 87 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.31% 13.16% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 52 61
10th Percentile £303 £235 £266
25th Percentile £318 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -1.85% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £600
90th Percentile £641 £575 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £485 £485
% change year-on-year +0.82% - +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £20.34 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.87
75th Percentile £26.01 - £14.25
90th Percentile £27.36 - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WLAN

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing WLAN

WLAN
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Leeds - 4 - - 1
Bradford - 2 £500 - 2
WLAN
Yorkshire

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) OCI
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) BGP
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) OSPF
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
1 5 (83.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) VoIP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Police
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Network Design
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Arista
1 3 (50.00%) Aruba
1 3 (50.00%) F5
1 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco