Wi-Fi Contracts in the North West

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 116 110 136
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -15
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 22 49 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 1.59% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.83% 11.56% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 39
10th Percentile £210 £263 £195
25th Percentile £269 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +38.46% +73.33%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £448
90th Percentile £516 £525 £538
England median daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 322 424 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.06% 13.77% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 284 366
10th Percentile £200 £288 £178
25th Percentile £325 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +8.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £666 £566 £586
90th Percentile £833 £638 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 10
10th Percentile £18.02 £15.72 £15.74
25th Percentile £22.06 £18.66 £17.19
Median hourly rate £34.37 £27.50 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year +24.96% +27.74% -54.61%
75th Percentile £45.88 £50.77 £54.61
90th Percentile £94.59 £52.13 £65.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the North West

Wi-Fi
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cumbria -14 14 £515 +14.44% 1
Manchester +6 7 £250 -33.33% 11
Cheshire -11 1 £200 -48.39% 3
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) Firewall
2 14 (63.64%) Cisco ISE
2 14 (63.64%) NetScaler
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (59.09%) IPsec
4 12 (54.55%) BGP
4 12 (54.55%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (54.55%) EIGRP
4 12 (54.55%) HSRP
4 12 (54.55%) OSPF
4 12 (54.55%) SNMP
4 12 (54.55%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (27.27%) WAN
6 4 (18.18%) LAN
6 4 (18.18%) VPN
7 3 (13.64%) VLAN
7 3 (13.64%) VoIP
8 1 (4.55%) NAS
8 1 (4.55%) Network Security
8 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Jinja
2 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
2 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Network Management
2 13 (59.09%) Change Management
2 13 (59.09%) ITIL
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) ITSM
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (13.64%) Network Design
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Quality Management
6 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.55%) Security Management
7 1 (4.55%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (4.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) Tcl
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (59.09%) CCNA
2 13 (59.09%) CCNP
2 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Firmware
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) Autotask
2 3 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 14 (63.64%) Palo Alto
3 13 (59.09%) Citrix
4 12 (54.55%) SolarWinds
5 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
6 4 (18.18%) VMware
7 3 (13.64%) Apple
7 3 (13.64%) Datto
7 3 (13.64%) Meraki
8 1 (4.55%) Brocade
8 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.55%) HP
8 1 (4.55%) Juniper
8 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.55%) Tufin
8 1 (4.55%) Veeam
8 1 (4.55%) Zscaler