Wi-Fi Contracts

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 277 292 353
Rank change year-on-year +15 +61 +60
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 351 491 658
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.87% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.47% 6.85% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 331 392
10th Percentile £185 £160 £161
25th Percentile £250 £216 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £538
90th Percentile £549 £588 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £338 £381 £375
% change year-on-year -11.48% +1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 32 65
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.84 £20.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +21.21% +6.73%
75th Percentile £21.46 £79.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £40.00 £81.00 £22.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £18.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +17.19% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,169 9,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.59% 12.72% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,630 6,422
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 444 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +39 332 £398 +6.00% 203
UK excluding London 0 253 £338 -11.48% 171
London +51 75 £398 +13.57% 48
Work from Home +40 73 £449 -5.42% 87
South East -27 68 £405 -7.95% 47
East of England +29 64 £288 -37.50% 16
North of England +12 53 £388 -8.82% 45
South West +22 41 £500 +80.18% 20
Yorkshire +27 22 £325 -13.33% 18
Midlands +6 22 £325 +1.56% 25
North West -14 22 £488 +8.33% 19
West Midlands +10 16 £200 -27.27% 17
North East +18 9 £413 +61.76% 8
East Midlands 0 6 £325 -7.14% 8
Scotland +5 5 £325 -25.71% 13
Wales +10 2 £170 -63.24% 9

Wi-Fi
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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.85%) IIS
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 28 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (27.35%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (11.11%) Azure
3 24 (6.84%) AWS
4 9 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.99%) WhatsApp
6 6 (1.71%) GCP
6 6 (1.71%) OneDrive
6 6 (1.71%) PaaS
6 6 (1.71%) SaaS
7 5 (1.42%) IaaS
8 3 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.85%) BigCommerce
8 3 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.85%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.85%) Mimecast
8 3 (0.85%) Nutanix
8 3 (0.85%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.57%) GitHub
9 2 (0.57%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 140 (39.89%) LAN
2 123 (35.04%) WAN
3 90 (25.64%) Firewall
4 62 (17.66%) VPN
5 42 (11.97%) DNS
6 35 (9.97%) DHCP
7 28 (7.98%) Wireless
8 24 (6.84%) BGP
8 24 (6.84%) VLAN
9 23 (6.55%) OSPF
10 22 (6.27%) Structured Cabling
11 21 (5.98%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (5.70%) Cisco ISE
12 20 (5.70%) VoIP
13 18 (5.13%) MPLS
13 18 (5.13%) Network Security
13 18 (5.13%) SAN
13 18 (5.13%) SD-WAN
14 17 (4.84%) NetScaler
14 17 (4.84%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Git
2 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.14%) JIRA
4 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.28%) Hudson
General
1 91 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.11%) Retail
3 31 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.84%) Finance
6 13 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.99%) Banking
10 6 (1.71%) Marketing
11 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.14%) Legal
12 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.85%) French Language
13 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.57%) Automotive
14 2 (0.57%) Electronics
14 2 (0.57%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 67 (19.09%) Network Engineer
2 61 (17.38%) Analyst
3 44 (12.54%) Service Analyst
4 43 (12.25%) Service Desk Analyst
5 36 (10.26%) Project Manager
6 34 (9.69%) Architect
6 34 (9.69%) Network Architect
7 29 (8.26%) Support Engineer
8 23 (6.55%) Senior
9 22 (6.27%) IT Support
10 21 (5.98%) IT Engineer
11 16 (4.56%) 2nd Line Support
11 16 (4.56%) Lead
12 15 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.99%) 1st Line Support
14 13 (3.70%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
15 12 (3.42%) Consultant
15 12 (3.42%) Desktop Support
16 11 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
16 11 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.27%) Jinja
2 13 (3.70%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.71%) LDAP
4 5 (1.42%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.14%) Node.js
6 3 (0.85%) JSON
6 3 (0.85%) RESTful
6 3 (0.85%) Software Packaging
6 3 (0.85%) VML
6 3 (0.85%) XML
6 3 (0.85%) XMPP
6 3 (0.85%) YANG
7 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.28%) Django
7 1 (0.28%) Flask
7 1 (0.28%) React
7 1 (0.28%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.25%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.70%) Clustering
3 18 (5.13%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.70%) Client/Server
5 9 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.56%) Digital Signage
5 9 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.71%) PKI
6 6 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.42%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.42%) STB
8 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.85%) Fat Client
9 3 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (0.85%) Solar Power
9 3 (0.85%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (20.51%) Windows
2 32 (9.12%) Windows 10
3 20 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.27%) Windows 7
5 13 (3.70%) Linux
5 13 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 13 (3.70%) Unix
6 11 (3.13%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (2.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.71%) Android
9 5 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.28%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (18.23%) ITIL
3 62 (17.66%) Customer Service
4 45 (12.82%) Incident Management
4 45 (12.82%) Project Management
5 37 (10.54%) Change Management
6 31 (8.83%) Network Management
7 27 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (7.41%) Project Delivery
9 24 (6.84%) Data Protection
9 24 (6.84%) Migration
10 22 (6.27%) PRINCE2
11 21 (5.98%) Decision-Making
11 21 (5.98%) Load Balancing
12 20 (5.70%) Network Design
13 18 (5.13%) DevOps
13 18 (5.13%) Risk Management
14 16 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (4.56%) Network Architecture
14 16 (4.56%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.40%) Python
2 22 (6.27%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.41%) Perl
3 19 (5.41%) Tcl
4 17 (4.84%) C
4 17 (4.84%) SQL
5 10 (2.85%) C++
6 4 (1.14%) Embedded C
6 4 (1.14%) Go
7 2 (0.57%) Bash
7 2 (0.57%) Swift
8 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 79 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (12.25%) A+ Certification
5 41 (11.68%) MCSA
6 37 (10.54%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (10.54%) Degree
7 31 (8.83%) CCNA
8 29 (8.26%) CCNP
9 12 (3.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.56%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.14%) CCIE
13 4 (1.14%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.14%) MCP
13 4 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.85%) MCSE
14 3 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.99%) SLA
2 10 (2.85%) QA
3 6 (1.71%) GDPR
4 5 (1.42%) NCSC
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.85%) PMO
6 2 (0.57%) COBIT
6 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (19.37%) Active Directory
2 36 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.56%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.27%) Firmware
5 10 (2.85%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (2.28%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.71%) Docker
7 6 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.85%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.57%) KVM
10 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.28%) vSphere
11 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (7.98%) SCCM
2 19 (5.41%) Ansible
3 14 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.13%) NetBackup
5 9 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (2.56%) Kubernetes
6 8 (2.28%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (2.28%) FortiGate
6 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (2.28%) Nagios
7 6 (1.71%) Autotask
7 6 (1.71%) Terraform
8 3 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.85%) AppManager
8 3 (0.85%) SCOM
8 3 (0.85%) SCVMM
8 3 (0.85%) VxRail
9 2 (0.57%) CASB
9 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (34.76%) Cisco
2 81 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 69 (19.66%) Citrix
4 49 (13.96%) Juniper
5 45 (12.82%) ServiceNow
6 43 (12.25%) Aruba
7 42 (11.97%) VMware
8 38 (10.83%) Palo Alto
9 36 (10.26%) Meraki
10 18 (5.13%) F5
11 17 (4.84%) Apple
11 17 (4.84%) SolarWinds
12 15 (4.27%) Brocade
13 14 (3.99%) HP
14 11 (3.13%) 3Com
15 10 (2.85%) CheckPoint
15 10 (2.85%) Fortinet
16 9 (2.56%) NetApp
17 8 (2.28%) Google
17 8 (2.28%) Hitachi