Wi-Fi Contracts with Work from Home Options

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 318 428
Rank change year-on-year +44 +110 -36
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 75 151 199
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.87% 5.20% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 89 133
10th Percentile £300 £263 £226
25th Percentile £313 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £550
90th Percentile £708 £690 £672
UK median daily rate £385 £390 £400
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £20.00 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £62.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £15.75 £78.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.94% +265.12% +7.50%
75th Percentile £16.63 £80.44 £36.13
90th Percentile - £81.00 £51.00
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.81% +12.12% +5.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Wi-Fi is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,541 2,904 4,330
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.32% 11.53% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,924 2,932
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -4.99% +3.15% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 96 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.14 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £23.75 £58.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.57% +23.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.06 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%

Wi-Fi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Wi-Fi trend for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Wi-Fi daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.67%) Confluence
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.33%) Azure
2 5 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (2.67%) GCP
3 2 (2.67%) GitHub
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.33%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (34.67%) Firewall
1 26 (34.67%) LAN
2 19 (25.33%) WAN
3 14 (18.67%) SD-WAN
3 14 (18.67%) Structured Cabling
4 11 (14.67%) 802.11
5 10 (13.33%) BGP
6 9 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (12.00%) OSPF
6 9 (12.00%) Wireless
7 8 (10.67%) WLAN
8 7 (9.33%) IPsec
8 7 (9.33%) SAN
8 7 (9.33%) VPN
9 6 (8.00%) EIGRP
9 6 (8.00%) HSRP
9 6 (8.00%) Internet
9 6 (8.00%) NetScaler
9 6 (8.00%) SNMP
9 6 (8.00%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Finance
3 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.33%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Military
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Network Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Project Manager
3 9 (12.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Architect
4 7 (9.33%) Network Architect
4 7 (9.33%) Senior
5 6 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) IT Support
6 5 (6.67%) Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Presales Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) VoIP Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Programme Manager
8 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 2 (2.67%) Network Consultant
9 2 (2.67%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.67%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) 802.1X
2 6 (8.00%) Jinja
3 2 (2.67%) LDAP
4 1 (1.33%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.33%) Clustering
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (1.33%) IoT
3 1 (1.33%) IVR
3 1 (1.33%) NHS
3 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
2 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.33%) Android
4 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.33%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.33%) Change Management
3 15 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 14 (18.67%) Project Management
5 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (16.00%) Risk Management
7 10 (13.33%) Line Management
8 9 (12.00%) Network Management
8 9 (12.00%) Project Planning
8 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.67%) DevOps
10 7 (9.33%) Customer Service
10 7 (9.33%) ITIL
11 5 (6.67%) Email Filtering
11 5 (6.67%) ITSM
11 5 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
12 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 4 (5.33%) Presales
12 4 (5.33%) Roadmaps
13 3 (4.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) Perl
1 15 (20.00%) Tcl
2 9 (12.00%) C
2 9 (12.00%) C++
3 8 (10.67%) Python
4 2 (2.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.00%) CCNA
4 11 (14.67%) CCNP
4 11 (14.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 5 (6.67%) Degree
6 3 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.67%) PMP
8 1 (1.33%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) CCIE
8 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.33%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Firmware
2 7 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.33%) KVM
6 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Ansible
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.67%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Cisco
2 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (17.33%) Palo Alto
4 8 (10.67%) SolarWinds
5 7 (9.33%) Citrix
5 7 (9.33%) VMware
6 4 (5.33%) F5
6 4 (5.33%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.33%) Meraki
7 3 (4.00%) Google
8 2 (2.67%) Ekahau
8 2 (2.67%) Genesys
8 2 (2.67%) Juniper
8 2 (2.67%) Splunk
8 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.33%) HP
9 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.33%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.33%) Red Hat