Hybrid/Remote WLAN Contract Job Trends

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WLAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 321 354
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 +194
Contract jobs citing WLAN 4 16 76
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.13% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.39% 1.16% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 52
10th Percentile £103 £375 £252
25th Percentile £169 £456 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £292 £550 £486
Median % change year-on-year -46.91% +13.17% -2.80%
75th Percentile £427 £631 £588
90th Percentile £501 £660 £627
UK median daily rate £413 £550 £486
% change year-on-year -25.00% +13.17% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £32.08
25th Percentile - - £32.96
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £34.22
Median % change year-on-year - +11.05% -
75th Percentile - - £35.76
90th Percentile - - £37.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £33.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.21% +101.86%

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 1,033 1,382 2,511
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.48% 10.82% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 869 1,673
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £691 £713
UK median daily rate £480 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -4.48% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 38 84
10th Percentile £14.91 £13.81 £17.66
25th Percentile £44.09 £37.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £46.78 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.74% -8.72% -6.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.67 £87.46 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -17.48% -8.83% +36.90%

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

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing WLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing WLAN

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WLAN over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

WLAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing WLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing WLAN

WLAN
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 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (25.00%) TACACS
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) NetScout
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) SevOne
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) VMware