WLAN Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring WLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 91 101
Rank change year-on-year -46 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing WLAN 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.28% 0.096% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.31% 0.55% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £413 £494
% change year-on-year +9.09% -16.46% +3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £23.92
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £24.87
75th Percentile £19.50 - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.00 - £24.87
% change year-on-year - - -24.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 303 181 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.99% 17.39% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 98 134
10th Percentile £272 £199 £200
25th Percentile £366 £235 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £458 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -2.61% -1.05%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £588
90th Percentile £679 £625 £634
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 9
10th Percentile £18.58 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.87%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.54 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.68% -25.85% +122.22%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

WLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WLAN

WLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing WLAN

WLAN
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 WLAN within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 3 £450 - 1
West Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
WLAN
England

WLAN
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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) OCI
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (42.86%) Network Security
4 3 (42.86%) Wireless
5 2 (28.57%) VLAN
6 1 (14.29%) BGP
6 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
6 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (14.29%) OSPF
6 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Network Management
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) Presales
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Arista
3 1 (14.29%) Aruba
3 1 (14.29%) F5