Wireless Contracts in Kent

Wireless
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 3.03% 2.31% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% 19.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £345 £303 -
25th Percentile £366 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% - -
75th Percentile £444 £338 -
90th Percentile £448 - -
South East median daily rate £350 £363 £320
% change year-on-year -3.45% +13.28% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.75 - -
Median hourly rate £51.50 - -
75th Percentile £52.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £31.88 £31.75
% change year-on-year -44.50% +0.39% -2.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

Wireless 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 advertised in Kent with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 26 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 13.13% 12.04% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 57
10th Percentile £203 £211 £149
25th Percentile £278 £313 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £419 £313
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +34.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £471 £749 £438
90th Percentile £538 £788 £608
South East median daily rate £488 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +0.52% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.71
25th Percentile £50.75 - £17.61
Median hourly rate £51.50 £79.19 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year -34.97% +314.50% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £20.60
90th Percentile - - £21.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -33.85%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Kent

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Kent.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Kent

Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Kent.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Kent

Wireless
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Kent region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Canterbury - 1 - - 1
West Malling - 1 £363 -
Wireless
South East

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
5 1 (16.67%) BGP
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (16.67%) IPsec
5 1 (16.67%) MPLS
5 1 (16.67%) Network Security
5 1 (16.67%) OSPF
5 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Meraki
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos