Wi-Fi Contracts in Manchester

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 99 121
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 7 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 0.77% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.68% 6.22% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 19
10th Percentile - £193 £153
25th Percentile £210 £313 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +15.38% +170.83%
75th Percentile £406 £525 £450
90th Percentile £443 £558 £541
North West median daily rate £463 £450 £325
% change year-on-year +2.78% +38.46% +73.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

Wi-Fi 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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 190 225 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.42% 12.36% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 162 213
10th Percentile £235 £313 £159
25th Percentile £350 £375 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +9.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £775 £575 £625
90th Percentile £850 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £483 £482 £450
% change year-on-year +0.21% +7.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £27.20 £14.19 £13.79
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.42 £16.42
Median hourly rate £96.00 £19.85 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +383.57% +8.78% -66.82%
75th Percentile £102.00 £26.86 £22.46
90th Percentile £103.20 £31.88 £46.76
North West median hourly rate £34.37 £27.50 £21.53
% change year-on-year +24.96% +27.74% -54.61%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in Manchester

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 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
Wigan - 1 £450 -
Wi-Fi
North West

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) VoIP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Quality Management
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 1 (14.29%) Security Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Autotask
1 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Apple
2 3 (42.86%) Datto
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Brocade
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (14.29%) Tufin
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (14.29%) Zscaler