Wi-Fi Contracts in England

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 291 321
Rank change year-on-year +42 +30 +57
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 331 411 585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 0.85% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.91% 6.96% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 264 339
10th Percentile £185 £161 £163
25th Percentile £250 £225 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £538
90th Percentile £588 £588 £653
UK median daily rate £398 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +6.00% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 31 60
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +12.12% +5.10%
75th Percentile £21.44 £63.00 £19.06
90th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.81% +12.12% +6.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,791 5,904 7,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.25% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,859 5,188
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 419 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.13 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.60 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in England.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in England.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wi-Fi in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +58 80 £400 +14.29% 70
South East -10 65 £338 -23.30% 48
East of England +26 64 £288 -39.47% 21
North of England +19 55 £363 -19.44% 45
South West +19 39 £500 +80.18% 20
Yorkshire +23 24 £325 -13.33% 19
North West -6 22 £463 +2.78% 21
Midlands +3 21 £325 +1.56% 23
West Midlands +18 16 £200 -27.27% 11
North East +18 9 £425 +66.67% 5
East Midlands +4 5 £325 -2.26% 12
Wi-Fi
UK

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.51%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 28 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (28.40%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (9.97%) Azure
3 20 (6.04%) AWS
4 6 (1.81%) Entra ID
4 6 (1.81%) PaaS
4 6 (1.81%) SaaS
5 5 (1.51%) OneDrive
5 5 (1.51%) WhatsApp
6 4 (1.21%) GCP
6 4 (1.21%) IaaS
7 3 (0.91%) BigCommerce
7 3 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.60%) GitHub
8 2 (0.60%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.60%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.60%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.60%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.60%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 136 (41.09%) LAN
2 116 (35.05%) WAN
3 89 (26.89%) Firewall
4 61 (18.43%) VPN
5 42 (12.69%) DNS
6 36 (10.88%) DHCP
7 26 (7.85%) BGP
8 25 (7.55%) OSPF
9 24 (7.25%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (6.95%) VLAN
10 23 (6.95%) VoIP
11 22 (6.65%) Structured Cabling
11 22 (6.65%) Wireless
12 20 (6.04%) MPLS
13 18 (5.44%) Cisco ISE
13 18 (5.44%) IPsec
13 18 (5.44%) SAN
14 16 (4.83%) SD-WAN
14 16 (4.83%) SNMP
15 15 (4.53%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.21%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (3.93%) Git
2 7 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.21%) JIRA
General
1 84 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.78%) Retail
3 28 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.14%) Finance
6 10 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.81%) Banking
10 5 (1.51%) Legal
10 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.51%) Marketing
11 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.60%) Automotive
12 2 (0.60%) Electronics
12 2 (0.60%) French Language
12 2 (0.60%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 67 (20.24%) Network Engineer
2 55 (16.62%) Analyst
3 42 (12.69%) Service Analyst
4 41 (12.39%) Service Desk Analyst
5 34 (10.27%) Project Manager
6 33 (9.97%) Architect
6 33 (9.97%) Network Architect
7 29 (8.76%) Support Engineer
8 21 (6.34%) IT Engineer
8 21 (6.34%) IT Support
9 19 (5.74%) Senior
10 15 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.53%) Lead
11 14 (4.23%) 1st Line Support
11 14 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
12 13 (3.93%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
13 12 (3.63%) Desktop Support
14 11 (3.32%) IT Support Engineer
14 11 (3.32%) Senior Network Engineer
15 9 (2.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.23%) Jinja
2 13 (3.93%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.81%) LDAP
4 4 (1.21%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.21%) Node.js
5 3 (0.91%) VML
5 3 (0.91%) XMPP
6 2 (0.60%) JSON
6 2 (0.60%) RESTful
6 2 (0.60%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.60%) XML
6 2 (0.60%) YANG
7 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.30%) Django
7 1 (0.30%) Flask
7 1 (0.30%) React
7 1 (0.30%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.90%) Data Centre
2 20 (6.04%) Clustering
3 16 (4.83%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.93%) Client/Server
5 9 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.11%) Digital Signage
6 7 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.51%) STB
9 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.21%) PKI
9 4 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.91%) Solar Power
10 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (21.75%) Windows
2 33 (9.97%) Windows 10
3 21 (6.34%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.14%) Linux
5 16 (4.83%) Windows 7
6 15 (4.53%) Unix
7 12 (3.63%) Mac OS
8 10 (3.02%) Apple iOS
8 10 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.91%) Android
11 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.60%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.30%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (18.73%) Customer Service
2 62 (18.73%) ITIL
3 46 (13.90%) Incident Management
4 43 (12.99%) Project Management
5 34 (10.27%) Change Management
6 31 (9.37%) Network Management
7 26 (7.85%) Project Delivery
7 26 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (7.25%) Data Protection
9 21 (6.34%) Decision-Making
9 21 (6.34%) Migration
9 21 (6.34%) PRINCE2
10 18 (5.44%) DevOps
10 18 (5.44%) Risk Management
11 17 (5.14%) Load Balancing
12 16 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (4.23%) Line Management
13 14 (4.23%) Project Planning
13 14 (4.23%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.27%) Python
2 23 (6.95%) Perl
3 21 (6.34%) PowerShell
4 20 (6.04%) Tcl
5 19 (5.74%) SQL
6 18 (5.44%) C
7 11 (3.32%) C++
8 4 (1.21%) Embedded C
8 4 (1.21%) Go
9 2 (0.60%) Bash
9 2 (0.60%) Swift
10 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.29%) A+ Certification
4 41 (12.39%) MCSA
5 38 (11.48%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (10.27%) Degree
7 31 (9.37%) CCNA
8 30 (9.06%) CCNP
9 12 (3.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 9 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.72%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.21%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.21%) MCP
12 4 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.91%) CCIE
13 3 (0.91%) MCSE
13 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.63%) SLA
2 11 (3.32%) QA
3 6 (1.81%) GDPR
4 4 (1.21%) NCSC
5 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.91%) PMO
6 2 (0.60%) COBIT
6 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (20.24%) Active Directory
2 37 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.14%) Firmware
4 16 (4.83%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.32%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.81%) Docker
9 5 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.91%) KVM
11 2 (0.60%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.30%) vSphere
12 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (8.16%) SCCM
2 20 (6.04%) Ansible
3 14 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.02%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (3.02%) NetBackup
5 9 (2.72%) Kubernetes
6 8 (2.42%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (2.42%) Nagios
7 7 (2.11%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.81%) Autotask
9 5 (1.51%) Terraform
10 3 (0.91%) AppManager
10 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.60%) CASB
11 2 (0.60%) Nmap
11 2 (0.60%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 118 (35.65%) Cisco
2 80 (24.17%) Microsoft
3 69 (20.85%) Citrix
4 47 (14.20%) Juniper
5 44 (13.29%) ServiceNow
6 43 (12.99%) VMware
7 37 (11.18%) Aruba
8 36 (10.88%) Meraki
9 34 (10.27%) Palo Alto
10 20 (6.04%) F5
11 17 (5.14%) SolarWinds
12 16 (4.83%) Apple
13 14 (4.23%) Brocade
14 12 (3.63%) HP
15 11 (3.32%) 3Com
15 11 (3.32%) Fortinet
16 10 (3.02%) CheckPoint
17 9 (2.72%) NetApp
18 8 (2.42%) Hitachi
19 7 (2.11%) Google