IEEE 802.1X
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for 802.1X skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 802.1X over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 600 788
Rank change year-on-year +60 +188 -176
Contract jobs citing 802.1X 39 100 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.17% 0.081%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 0.72% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 68 35
10th Percentile £299 £231 £375
25th Percentile £313 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £490 £569 £588
90th Percentile £525 £654 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £76.60 £30.88
25th Percentile - £76.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £78.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - +142.31% -
75th Percentile - £82.01 £33.75
90th Percentile - £85.05 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +141.54% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

802.1X is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,938 13,979 24,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.31% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,209 10,212 17,679
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £764 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 243
10th Percentile £20.82 £30.30 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.94 £46.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 802.1X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 802.1X.

Daily rate trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 802.1X.

Hourly rate trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 802.1X within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +62 34 £431 -13.75% 8
UK excluding London +20 23 £375 -25.00% 8
Work from Home +102 19 £431 -19.77% 2
South East +30 17 £374 -20.85% 2
London +103 9 £475 -24.00%
South West +18 2 £460 -29.23%
North of England +10 2 - -
North West +8 2 - -
West Midlands +24 1 - - 1
East of England +9 1 £300 -42.72% 5
Midlands +5 1 - - 2

802.1X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 7 (17.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) OCI
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (51.28%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (46.15%) Firewall
3 15 (38.46%) 802.11
4 12 (30.77%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (30.77%) HSRP
4 12 (30.77%) IPsec
4 12 (30.77%) OSPF
5 11 (28.21%) BGP
5 11 (28.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 11 (28.21%) Wireless
6 10 (25.64%) VLAN
7 9 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (23.08%) LAN
8 7 (17.95%) DNS
8 7 (17.95%) Spanning Tree
9 6 (15.38%) EIGRP
9 6 (15.38%) VPN
9 6 (15.38%) WAN
10 5 (12.82%) DHCP
10 5 (12.82%) IPv4
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Electronics
3 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Network Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) C++ Software Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) C++ Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Network Support
5 2 (5.13%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Wireless Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) .NET
1 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.13%) IoT
2 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) PKI
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
2 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 6 (15.38%) Network Design
3 5 (12.82%) Network Management
4 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (10.26%) Change Management
4 4 (10.26%) ITIL
4 4 (10.26%) Load Balancing
5 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.13%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 2 (5.13%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (5.13%) Project Delivery
6 2 (5.13%) Server Management
6 2 (5.13%) SOLID
6 2 (5.13%) Statistics
6 2 (5.13%) Storage Management
6 2 (5.13%) YAGNI
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) C
1 15 (38.46%) C++
2 12 (30.77%) Perl
2 12 (30.77%) Tcl
3 5 (12.82%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) CCNP
1 11 (28.21%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) CCNA
3 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
5 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.26%) Degree
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) SolarWinds Orion
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.13%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Cisco
2 13 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 9 (23.08%) CheckPoint
3 9 (23.08%) F5
3 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 8 (20.51%) SolarWinds
5 6 (15.38%) Meraki
6 5 (12.82%) Google
6 5 (12.82%) Infoblox
7 3 (7.69%) Juniper
8 2 (5.13%) Atmel
8 2 (5.13%) Dell
8 2 (5.13%) Ekahau
8 2 (5.13%) SAP
8 2 (5.13%) SonicWALL
8 2 (5.13%) Veeam
8 2 (5.13%) VMware
9 1 (2.56%) Fortinet