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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 319 430
Rank change year-on-year +48 +111 -37
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 73 143 198
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.78% 5.06% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 88 135
10th Percentile £298 £263 £217
25th Percentile £313 £377 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +5.56% +5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £569 £550
90th Percentile £594 £700 £668
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £400
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 8
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 £22.25
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -13.16% +15.15% +6.73%

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 1,527 2,824 4,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.57% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,879 2,984
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £490 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.39% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 97 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.10 £18.99
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £27.58
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.32 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.21% +16.46% +22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £64.75
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% +10.00%

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 25 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 (2.74%) Confluence
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 6 (8.22%) AWS
3 3 (4.11%) GCP
4 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.74%) GitHub
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.37%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) Slack
5 1 (1.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.36%) Firewall
2 26 (35.62%) LAN
3 18 (24.66%) WAN
4 13 (17.81%) SD-WAN
4 13 (17.81%) Structured Cabling
5 11 (15.07%) BGP
6 10 (13.70%) 802.11
6 10 (13.70%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (13.70%) OSPF
6 10 (13.70%) VPN
7 9 (12.33%) Wireless
8 8 (10.96%) IPsec
8 8 (10.96%) WLAN
9 7 (9.59%) EIGRP
9 7 (9.59%) Internet
9 7 (9.59%) SAN
10 6 (8.22%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (8.22%) HSRP
10 6 (8.22%) NetScaler
10 6 (8.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) JIRA
1 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.74%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.37%) French Language
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Military
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Network Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Project Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Network Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Software Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) IT Support
5 5 (6.85%) Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) IT Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Presales Consultant
6 4 (5.48%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Network Technical Architect
7 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Developer
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) 802.1X
2 6 (8.22%) Jinja
3 2 (2.74%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.37%) Django
4 1 (1.37%) Flask
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
1 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.37%) Clustering
2 1 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (1.37%) IoT
2 1 (1.37%) IVR
2 1 (1.37%) NHS
2 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Windows
2 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.74%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.36%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (27.40%) Change Management
3 15 (20.55%) PRINCE2
3 15 (20.55%) Project Management
4 12 (16.44%) Risk Management
4 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (13.70%) Line Management
6 9 (12.33%) Network Management
6 9 (12.33%) Project Planning
7 8 (10.96%) DevOps
7 8 (10.96%) ITIL
7 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.59%) Customer Service
9 5 (6.85%) Email Filtering
9 5 (6.85%) ITSM
9 5 (6.85%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (6.85%) Roadmaps
10 4 (5.48%) CI/CD
10 4 (5.48%) Presales
11 3 (4.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.18%) Perl
1 14 (19.18%) Tcl
2 9 (12.33%) Python
3 8 (10.96%) C
3 8 (10.96%) C++
4 2 (2.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (16.44%) CCNP
3 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
4 11 (15.07%) CCNA
4 11 (15.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (4.11%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.74%) CCIE
7 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Firmware
2 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.37%) Docker
5 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Ansible
2 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.74%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Cisco
2 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
3 14 (19.18%) Palo Alto
4 8 (10.96%) SolarWinds
5 7 (9.59%) Citrix
6 6 (8.22%) VMware
7 4 (5.48%) F5
7 4 (5.48%) Fortinet
7 4 (5.48%) Google
7 4 (5.48%) Meraki
8 3 (4.11%) Juniper
8 3 (4.11%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.74%) Aruba
9 2 (2.74%) Ekahau
9 2 (2.74%) Genesys
9 2 (2.74%) Splunk
10 1 (1.37%) Commvault
10 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (1.37%) Veeam