Wi-Fi Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 173 172
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +85
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 253 334 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.46% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.68% 9.41% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 232 273
10th Percentile £190 £160 £155
25th Percentile £223 £220 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £381 £375
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £488 £500 £519
90th Percentile £518 £556 £658
UK median daily rate £400 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 24 53
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £15.53 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £18.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +17.19% +6.67%
75th Percentile £21.37 £63.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £17.84 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.83% +21.21% +6.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,295 3,548 4,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 15.48% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 2,221 2,761
10th Percentile £205 £210 £188
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 300 237
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.37
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.05
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £71.01 £75.00 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East -27 68 £405 -7.95% 48
East of England +29 64 £288 -37.50% 16
North of England +12 53 £388 -8.82% 46
South West +22 41 £500 +80.18% 18
Yorkshire +27 22 £325 -13.33% 18
Midlands +6 22 £325 +1.56% 25
North West -14 22 £488 +8.33% 20
West Midlands +10 16 £200 -27.27% 17
North East +18 9 £413 +61.76% 8
East Midlands 0 6 £325 -7.14% 8
Scotland +5 5 £325 -25.71% 15
Wales +10 2 £170 -63.24% 9
Wi-Fi
UK

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 82 (32.41%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (8.30%) Azure
3 9 (3.56%) AWS
4 6 (2.37%) OneDrive
5 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.19%) BigCommerce
6 3 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.19%) GCP
7 2 (0.79%) GitHub
7 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.79%) IaaS
7 2 (0.79%) PaaS
7 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.79%) SaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 100 (39.53%) LAN
2 88 (34.78%) WAN
3 57 (22.53%) Firewall
4 47 (18.58%) VPN
5 23 (9.09%) DNS
6 20 (7.91%) DHCP
7 18 (7.11%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (6.72%) Cisco ISE
9 15 (5.93%) BGP
9 15 (5.93%) NetScaler
9 15 (5.93%) OSPF
9 15 (5.93%) VLAN
10 14 (5.53%) IPsec
10 14 (5.53%) SAN
10 14 (5.53%) Structured Cabling
11 13 (5.14%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (5.14%) EIGRP
12 12 (4.74%) HSRP
12 12 (4.74%) SNMP
12 12 (4.74%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.79%) JIRA
1 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.40%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) Hudson
General
1 64 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.42%) Retail
3 26 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.95%) Finance
6 9 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.16%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.58%) Legal
8 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.19%) French Language
9 3 (1.19%) Marketing
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Electronics
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (22.13%) Analyst
2 52 (20.55%) Network Engineer
3 43 (17.00%) Service Analyst
3 43 (17.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 28 (11.07%) Architect
4 28 (11.07%) Network Architect
5 22 (8.70%) Project Manager
6 20 (7.91%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.11%) IT Engineer
8 17 (6.72%) IT Support
9 14 (5.53%) 2nd Line Support
10 13 (5.14%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
10 13 (5.14%) Senior
11 11 (4.35%) 1st Line Support
12 9 (3.56%) Desktop Support
12 9 (3.56%) IT Support Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Senior Network Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.74%) Jinja
2 9 (3.56%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.19%) VML
3 3 (1.19%) XMPP
4 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.40%) Django
4 1 (0.40%) Flask
4 1 (0.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.49%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.11%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.93%) Clustering
4 9 (3.56%) Client/Server
5 7 (2.77%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.19%) Solar Power
10 2 (0.79%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.79%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.79%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.40%) Chip and PIN
11 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.40%) iPhone
11 1 (0.40%) PMI
11 1 (0.40%) STB
Operating Systems
1 52 (20.55%) Windows
2 28 (11.07%) Windows 10
3 13 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 10 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.95%) Windows 7
6 8 (3.16%) Unix
6 8 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.98%) Android
8 5 (1.98%) Linux
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.04%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (23.32%) Customer Service
3 57 (22.53%) ITIL
4 42 (16.60%) Incident Management
5 34 (13.44%) Project Management
6 27 (10.67%) Network Management
7 23 (9.09%) Change Management
8 22 (8.70%) Project Delivery
9 17 (6.72%) Migration
10 16 (6.32%) Data Protection
10 16 (6.32%) Decision-Making
10 16 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (5.53%) Network Design
11 14 (5.53%) Service Delivery
12 13 (5.14%) Load Balancing
12 13 (5.14%) Mathematics
13 12 (4.74%) DevOps
13 12 (4.74%) PRINCE2
14 11 (4.35%) Capacity Planning
14 11 (4.35%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.51%) Perl
1 19 (7.51%) Tcl
2 17 (6.72%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.72%) Python
3 11 (4.35%) SQL
4 7 (2.77%) C
4 7 (2.77%) C++
5 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 44 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (17.00%) A+ Certification
5 41 (16.21%) MCSA
6 30 (11.86%) Degree
7 28 (11.07%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (10.67%) CCNA
9 24 (9.49%) CCNP
10 9 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.77%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.58%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.58%) MCP
14 3 (1.19%) CCIE
14 3 (1.19%) MCSE
14 3 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.35%) SLA
2 4 (1.58%) GDPR
3 3 (1.19%) PMO
3 3 (1.19%) QA
4 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (20.16%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.53%) Firmware
4 10 (3.95%) VMware Workstation
5 9 (3.56%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.79%) Docker
8 2 (0.79%) KVM
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) vSphere
9 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (8.30%) SCCM
2 13 (5.14%) Ansible
3 8 (3.16%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (3.16%) Nagios
3 8 (3.16%) NetBackup
4 7 (2.77%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.37%) Autotask
5 6 (2.37%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.19%) AppManager
6 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.19%) Terraform
7 2 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (35.57%) Cisco
2 66 (26.09%) Citrix
3 57 (22.53%) Microsoft
4 44 (17.39%) ServiceNow
5 34 (13.44%) Juniper
5 34 (13.44%) VMware
6 31 (12.25%) Aruba
7 24 (9.49%) Meraki
8 23 (9.09%) Palo Alto
9 14 (5.53%) Apple
9 14 (5.53%) SolarWinds
10 12 (4.74%) Brocade
11 11 (4.35%) 3Com
11 11 (4.35%) F5
12 10 (3.95%) HP
13 9 (3.56%) NetApp
14 8 (3.16%) Hitachi
15 7 (2.77%) CheckPoint
16 6 (2.37%) Datto
17 4 (1.58%) Zscaler