Wireless Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Wireless
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Wireless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 69 92
Rank change year-on-year -52 +23 +39
Contract jobs citing Wireless 12 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.65% 1.78% 1.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.03% 10.50% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 16
10th Percentile £158 £386 £286
25th Percentile £194 £410 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £490 £469 £381
90th Percentile - £520 £506
England median daily rate £340 £450 £435
% change year-on-year -24.44% +3.45% -3.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

Wireless 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 199 200 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.72% 16.93% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 115 164
10th Percentile £203 £202 £216
25th Percentile £295 £226 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £428
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -2.92% +0.59%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £575
90th Percentile £640 £715 £650
England median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - £11.97 £15.80
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.14
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +2.33%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £23.43
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +25.43%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Yorkshire

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
West Yorkshire -16 10 £440 +4.76% 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 2
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (41.67%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (41.67%) LAN
5 4 (33.33%) Network Security
5 4 (33.33%) VLAN
6 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
7 2 (16.67%) NGFW
7 2 (16.67%) VPN
8 1 (8.33%) BGP
8 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
8 1 (8.33%) OSPF
8 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (8.33%) VoIP
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics Technician
3 1 (8.33%) Network Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Project Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) CCTV
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CCNA
3 2 (16.67%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (41.67%) F5
3 5 (41.67%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto