Wi-Fi Contracts with Work from Home Options

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 268 318 428
Rank change year-on-year +50 +110 -30
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 76 157 195
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.83% 5.32% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 94 129
10th Percentile £300 £263 £226
25th Percentile £313 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +6.82%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £550
90th Percentile £715 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £398 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -6.47% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £20.00 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £62.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £15.75 £78.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.94% +265.12% +7.50%
75th Percentile £16.63 £80.44 £36.13
90th Percentile - £81.00 £51.00
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.81% +12.12% +5.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,573 2,949 4,353
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 11.55% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,962 2,948
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.92% -31.36% +3.77%

Wi-Fi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Wi-Fi trend for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Wi-Fi daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.63%) Confluence
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.21%) Azure
2 5 (6.58%) AWS
3 2 (2.63%) GCP
3 2 (2.63%) GitHub
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.32%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (34.21%) LAN
2 25 (32.89%) Firewall
3 19 (25.00%) WAN
4 15 (19.74%) SD-WAN
5 14 (18.42%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (15.79%) 802.11
7 10 (13.16%) BGP
8 9 (11.84%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (11.84%) OSPF
8 9 (11.84%) Wireless
9 8 (10.53%) WLAN
10 7 (9.21%) IPsec
10 7 (9.21%) SAN
10 7 (9.21%) VPN
11 6 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (7.89%) EIGRP
11 6 (7.89%) HSRP
11 6 (7.89%) Internet
11 6 (7.89%) NetScaler
11 6 (7.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.32%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 16 (21.05%) Project Manager
3 10 (13.16%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Architect
4 8 (10.53%) Network Architect
5 6 (7.89%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) IT Support
5 6 (7.89%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) Consultant
6 5 (6.58%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Presales Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) VoIP Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Network Technical Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) 802.1X
2 6 (7.89%) Jinja
3 2 (2.63%) LDAP
4 1 (1.32%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.32%) Clustering
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (1.32%) IoT
3 1 (1.32%) IVR
3 1 (1.32%) NHS
3 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Windows
2 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.95%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.95%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.00%) Change Management
3 15 (19.74%) PRINCE2
4 14 (18.42%) Project Management
4 14 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 10 (13.16%) Line Management
6 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
7 9 (11.84%) Network Management
7 9 (11.84%) Project Planning
8 8 (10.53%) DevOps
9 7 (9.21%) Customer Service
9 7 (9.21%) ITIL
10 5 (6.58%) Email Filtering
10 5 (6.58%) ITSM
10 5 (6.58%) Kalman Filter
11 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 4 (5.26%) Presales
11 4 (5.26%) Roadmaps
12 3 (3.95%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) Perl
1 16 (21.05%) Tcl
2 10 (13.16%) C
2 10 (13.16%) C++
3 8 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) CCNA
3 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 11 (14.47%) CCNP
4 11 (14.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 5 (6.58%) Degree
6 3 (3.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.63%) PMP
8 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.32%) CCIE
8 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.32%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Firmware
2 7 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.32%) KVM
6 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Ansible
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (34.21%) Cisco
2 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 13 (17.11%) Palo Alto
4 8 (10.53%) SolarWinds
5 7 (9.21%) Citrix
5 7 (9.21%) VMware
6 4 (5.26%) F5
6 4 (5.26%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.26%) Meraki
7 3 (3.95%) Google
8 2 (2.63%) Ekahau
8 2 (2.63%) Genesys
8 2 (2.63%) Juniper
8 2 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.32%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.32%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.32%) Veeam