WLAN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WLAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 312 409
Rank change year-on-year +13 +97 +150
Contract jobs citing WLAN 5 33 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 2.05% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 46
10th Percentile £444 £379 £338
25th Percentile £453 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £578
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -22.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £528 £556 £619
90th Percentile £541 £643 £632
UK median daily rate £413 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -21.43% +0.48% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £24.87 £33.00
% change year-on-year - -24.64% +16.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

WLAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WLAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WLAN.

WLAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WLAN.

WLAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) SNMP
3 2 (40.00%) TACACS
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) 5G
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) German Language
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cabling Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 2 (40.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE Security
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco