Wi-Fi Contracts in the North of England

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 141 165
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 57 76 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.21% 1.31% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.81% 11.11% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 53 65
10th Percentile £210 £251 £226
25th Percentile £310 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% +18.75% +100.00%
75th Percentile £460 £538 £500
90th Percentile £515 £550 £560
England median daily rate £360 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
England median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.81% +12.12% -5.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 581 684 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.34% 11.78% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 468 610
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +13.92%
75th Percentile £602 £566 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 48 27
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.01
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the North of England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North of England

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the North of England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North of England

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Yorkshire +32 27 £325 -36.59% 16
North West -7 23 £450 -6.35% 25
North East +17 7 £425 -10.53% 4
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.77%) Azure
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.51%) AWS
2 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (45.61%) Firewall
2 23 (40.35%) LAN
3 20 (35.09%) WAN
4 15 (26.32%) NetScaler
5 14 (24.56%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (22.81%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (22.81%) IPsec
7 12 (21.05%) BGP
7 12 (21.05%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (21.05%) EIGRP
7 12 (21.05%) HSRP
7 12 (21.05%) OSPF
7 12 (21.05%) SNMP
7 12 (21.05%) Spanning Tree
8 8 (14.04%) DHCP
8 8 (14.04%) DNS
9 7 (12.28%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (12.28%) VoIP
10 6 (10.53%) SAN
11 5 (8.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
General
1 12 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Banking
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Back Office
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Network Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) IT Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 8 (14.04%) Senior Network Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) IT Support
5 5 (8.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) IT Technician
5 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) VoIP Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Data Centre Technician
7 3 (5.26%) LAN Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) LAN/WAN Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) Jinja
2 2 (3.51%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.02%) Clustering
4 4 (7.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.75%) LIMS
5 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.82%) Windows
2 10 (17.54%) Windows 10
3 9 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.28%) Windows 7
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.26%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (24.56%) ITIL
2 14 (24.56%) Network Management
3 13 (22.81%) Change Management
4 12 (21.05%) DevOps
5 11 (19.30%) Break/Fix
5 11 (19.30%) ITSM
6 8 (14.04%) Migration
7 7 (12.28%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (12.28%) Runbook
8 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.77%) Customer Service
9 5 (8.77%) Email Filtering
9 5 (8.77%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (8.77%) Network Design
10 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 4 (7.02%) Project Management
11 3 (5.26%) Quality Management
11 3 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) Python
2 12 (21.05%) Perl
2 12 (21.05%) Tcl
3 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) CCNA
1 17 (29.82%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
2 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
3 13 (22.81%) CCNP
4 9 (15.79%) Degree
5 7 (12.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.02%) A+ Certification
7 4 (7.02%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.75%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Firmware
1 16 (28.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (19.30%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.04%) Hyper-V
4 7 (12.28%) KVM
4 7 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (12.28%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (12.28%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
5 1 (1.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Ansible
2 7 (12.28%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.26%) Autotask
3 3 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Cisco
2 25 (43.86%) Citrix
3 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 17 (29.82%) VMware
5 14 (24.56%) Meraki
5 14 (24.56%) Palo Alto
6 12 (21.05%) Aruba
6 12 (21.05%) Brocade
6 12 (21.05%) Juniper
6 12 (21.05%) SolarWinds
7 11 (19.30%) 3Com
8 3 (5.26%) Apple
8 3 (5.26%) Datto
9 2 (3.51%) HP
10 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.75%) NetApp
10 1 (1.75%) Oracle
10 1 (1.75%) Sophos
10 1 (1.75%) Tufin
10 1 (1.75%) Veeam