Wireless Engineer Contracts

Wireless Engineer
UK

The median Wireless Engineer daily rate in the UK is £396, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 657 827
Rank change year-on-year +90 +170 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Wireless Engineer 17 40 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.072% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.076% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 10
10th Percentile - £228 £313
25th Percentile £378 £290 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £463 £419
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +10.45% +52.27%
75th Percentile £419 £497 £563
90th Percentile £458 £525 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £400 £575
% change year-on-year -1.00% -30.43% +125.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Wireless Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Wireless Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless Engineer in the UK

Wireless Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Wireless Engineer in the UK

Wireless Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless Engineer in the UK

Wireless Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +66 15 £396 -12.00% 10
UK excluding London +13 9 £396 -1.00% 7
North of England +13 6 £396 -20.80% 1
North West +11 6 £396 -20.80%
Work from Home +108 5 £413 -2.94% 1
London +75 2 £450 -5.26% 3
South East +3 1 £475 +97.21% 2
South West - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 - -

Wireless Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Wireless Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Wireless Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Wireless
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
3 7 (41.18%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (41.18%) SD-WAN
4 5 (29.41%) Aruba
4 5 (29.41%) F5
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
4 5 (29.41%) Palo Alto
4 5 (29.41%) ITSM
4 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (29.41%) DMZ
5 4 (23.53%) 802.11
5 4 (23.53%) Network Design
5 4 (23.53%) 802.1X
6 3 (17.65%) AWS
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 3 (17.65%) Ekahau
6 3 (17.65%) LAN
6 3 (17.65%) WLAN
6 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (11.76%) CCNP
7 2 (11.76%) IPsec
7 2 (11.76%) OSPF
7 2 (11.76%) BGP
7 2 (11.76%) VMware
7 2 (11.76%) Statistics
7 2 (11.76%) Network Security

Wireless Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Wireless
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (41.18%) SD-WAN
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (29.41%) DMZ
4 4 (23.53%) 802.11
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco Wireless
5 3 (17.65%) LAN
5 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (17.65%) WLAN
6 2 (11.76%) BGP
6 2 (11.76%) HSRP
6 2 (11.76%) IPsec
6 2 (11.76%) Network Security
6 2 (11.76%) OSPF
7 1 (5.88%) 4G
7 1 (5.88%) 5G
7 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) ITSM
2 4 (23.53%) Network Design
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) High Availability
3 2 (11.76%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Statistics
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (5.88%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CCNP
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Cacti
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco
2 5 (29.41%) Aruba
2 5 (29.41%) F5
2 5 (29.41%) Palo Alto
3 3 (17.65%) Ekahau
4 2 (11.76%) Meraki
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.88%) HP