Wi-Fi Contracts in the North West

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 96 134
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 -2
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 22 54 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 1.79% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.75% 12.59% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 38
10th Percentile £210 £233 £155
25th Percentile £347 £313 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +38.46% +22.64%
75th Percentile £515 £486 £445
90th Percentile £521 £525 £538
England median daily rate £373 £350 £390
% change year-on-year +6.43% -10.26% +4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 429 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.65% 14.24% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 288 371
10th Percentile £208 £288 £163
25th Percentile £340 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £668 £565 £583
90th Percentile £830 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 10
10th Percentile £21.10 £15.41 £10.96
25th Percentile £26.00 £18.93 £16.42
Median hourly rate £45.88 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.82% +62.34% +32.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.06 £49.94
90th Percentile £90.20 £53.22 £65.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +5.10%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Cumbria -10 14 £515 +14.44% 1
Manchester +6 8 £300 -7.69% 7
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) Firewall
2 14 (63.64%) Cisco ISE
2 14 (63.64%) NetScaler
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (59.09%) IPsec
4 12 (54.55%) BGP
4 12 (54.55%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (54.55%) EIGRP
4 12 (54.55%) HSRP
4 12 (54.55%) OSPF
4 12 (54.55%) SNMP
4 12 (54.55%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (27.27%) WAN
6 4 (18.18%) LAN
6 4 (18.18%) VPN
7 3 (13.64%) VLAN
7 3 (13.64%) VoIP
8 1 (4.55%) Network Security
8 1 (4.55%) SAN
8 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Jinja
2 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Network Management
2 13 (59.09%) Change Management
2 13 (59.09%) ITIL
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) ITSM
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (13.64%) Network Design
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Quality Management
6 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.55%) Security Management
7 1 (4.55%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (4.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) Tcl
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (59.09%) CCNA
2 13 (59.09%) CCNP
2 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Firmware
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) Autotask
2 3 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 14 (63.64%) Palo Alto
3 13 (59.09%) Citrix
4 12 (54.55%) SolarWinds
5 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
6 4 (18.18%) VMware
7 3 (13.64%) Apple
7 3 (13.64%) Datto
7 3 (13.64%) Meraki
8 1 (4.55%) Brocade
8 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.55%) HP
8 1 (4.55%) Juniper
8 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.55%) Tufin
8 1 (4.55%) Veeam
8 1 (4.55%) Zscaler