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 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 276 316 427
Rank change year-on-year +40 +111 -27
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 73 144 205
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.76% 5.11% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 91 144
10th Percentile £300 £250 £226
25th Percentile £328 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +5.56% +7.46%
75th Percentile £500 £569 £550
90th Percentile £594 £700 £655
UK median daily rate £400 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 8
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 £22.25
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
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
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 1,535 2,817 4,458
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.48% 11.62% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,879 3,052
10th Percentile £300 £344 £313
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 95 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.90 £18.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £27.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.32 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.73% +16.46% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

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 2 June 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 (2.74%) Confluence
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 6 (8.22%) AWS
3 3 (4.11%) GCP
4 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.74%) GitHub
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.37%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) Slack
5 1 (1.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (36.99%) Firewall
2 26 (35.62%) LAN
3 19 (26.03%) WAN
4 13 (17.81%) SD-WAN
4 13 (17.81%) Structured Cabling
5 12 (16.44%) BGP
6 11 (15.07%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (15.07%) OSPF
6 11 (15.07%) VPN
7 10 (13.70%) Wireless
8 9 (12.33%) 802.11
9 8 (10.96%) EIGRP
9 8 (10.96%) WLAN
10 7 (9.59%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (9.59%) IPsec
10 7 (9.59%) Network Security
11 6 (8.22%) HSRP
11 6 (8.22%) NetScaler
11 6 (8.22%) SNMP
11 6 (8.22%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) JIRA
1 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.48%) Banking
3 4 (5.48%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.37%) French Language
5 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.37%) Military
5 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Network Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Project Manager
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Network Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
4 7 (9.59%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) IT Support
6 5 (6.85%) Consultant
6 5 (6.85%) IT Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Presales Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Network Technical Architect
8 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Wireless Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Data Network Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) 802.1X
2 6 (8.22%) Jinja
3 2 (2.74%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.37%) Django
4 1 (1.37%) Flask
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
1 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.37%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (1.37%) Clustering
2 1 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (1.37%) IoT
2 1 (1.37%) IVR
2 1 (1.37%) NHS
2 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Android
3 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.74%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (30.14%) Change Management
3 15 (20.55%) PRINCE2
3 15 (20.55%) Project Management
4 12 (16.44%) Risk Management
4 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (13.70%) Line Management
6 9 (12.33%) Project Planning
7 8 (10.96%) DevOps
7 8 (10.96%) ITIL
7 8 (10.96%) Network Management
8 7 (9.59%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.22%) Customer Service
10 5 (6.85%) ITSM
10 5 (6.85%) Roadmaps
11 4 (5.48%) CI/CD
11 4 (5.48%) Email Filtering
11 4 (5.48%) Kalman Filter
11 4 (5.48%) Load Balancing
11 4 (5.48%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.81%) Perl
1 13 (17.81%) Tcl
2 10 (13.70%) Python
3 7 (9.59%) C
3 7 (9.59%) C++
4 3 (4.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
4 11 (15.07%) CCNA
4 11 (15.07%) CCNP
4 11 (15.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (5.48%) Degree
6 3 (4.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CCIE
8 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) QA
1 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Firmware
2 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.37%) Docker
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Ansible
2 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.74%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (34.25%) Cisco
2 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.18%) Palo Alto
3 7 (9.59%) Citrix
3 7 (9.59%) SolarWinds
4 5 (6.85%) Aruba
4 5 (6.85%) F5
4 5 (6.85%) Fortinet
4 5 (6.85%) VMware
5 4 (5.48%) Google
5 4 (5.48%) Meraki
6 3 (4.11%) Ekahau
6 3 (4.11%) Juniper
6 3 (4.11%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.74%) Genesys
7 2 (2.74%) HP
7 2 (2.74%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.37%) Veeam