WLAN Contracts

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN 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 490 543 676
Rank change year-on-year +53 +133 -38
Contract jobs citing WLAN 89 141 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.64% 1.97% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 89 115
10th Percentile £258 £300 £213
25th Percentile £408 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +2.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £713 £619 £575
90th Percentile £859 £802 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +38.73% +8.13% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £17.45
25th Percentile £23.92 - £28.41
Median hourly rate £24.87 - £29.71
75th Percentile £25.83 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.87 - £31.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

WLAN 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%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WLAN over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN 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 +60 75 £500 +11.11% 69
UK excluding London +26 40 £600 +38.73% 60
London +83 37 £488 -11.36% 11
Work from Home +75 33 £450 -7.41% 7
Midlands +26 10 £750 +73.41% 46
West Midlands +16 10 £750 +73.41% 37
South West +12 9 £588 +56.67% 3
North of England +16 7 £650 +42.70% 3
East of England - 6 £575 - 1
South East -7 4 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire - 4 - - 3
Scotland +39 3 £444 -6.58%
North West -1 3 £650 +42.70%
Wales +19 2 £220 +10.00% 1

WLAN
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 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) IIS
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.48%) AWS
2 6 (6.74%) Azure
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (3.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.37%) GCP
3 3 (3.37%) Route 53
3 3 (3.37%) Serverless
3 3 (3.37%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.12%) GitHub
4 1 (1.12%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 79 (88.76%) LAN
2 63 (70.79%) WAN
3 48 (53.93%) Firewall
4 42 (47.19%) Wireless
5 30 (33.71%) VPN
6 25 (28.09%) SD-WAN
7 17 (19.10%) BGP
7 17 (19.10%) OSPF
8 14 (15.73%) MPLS
8 14 (15.73%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (14.61%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (12.36%) DHCP
10 11 (12.36%) DNS
10 11 (12.36%) IPsec
11 10 (11.24%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (11.24%) Internet
11 10 (11.24%) VoIP
12 9 (10.11%) PBX
13 8 (8.99%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (8.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Gradle
1 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (17.98%) Telecoms
2 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Finance
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Advertising
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Aviation
7 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Network Engineer
2 22 (24.72%) Architect
3 16 (17.98%) Senior
4 13 (14.61%) Network Specialist
5 12 (13.48%) Consultant
6 11 (12.36%) Network Architect
7 8 (8.99%) Network Consultant
7 8 (8.99%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.62%) Lead
10 4 (4.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Network Technician
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Network Technician
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Technician
10 4 (4.49%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Web Services
2 2 (2.25%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.25%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.12%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.48%) Operational Technology
3 11 (12.36%) PKI
4 5 (5.62%) CMDB
5 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.49%) NHS
5 4 (4.49%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.37%) Solar Power
7 1 (1.12%) CCTV
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Windows
2 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.49%) Linux
4 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.25%) Unix
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.98%) Migration
2 15 (16.85%) Network Architecture
3 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (12.36%) Presales
6 10 (11.24%) Change Management
6 10 (11.24%) Mentoring
6 10 (11.24%) Performance Management
6 10 (11.24%) Programme Management
6 10 (11.24%) Storage Management
6 10 (11.24%) Threat Management
7 9 (10.11%) Analytics
7 9 (10.11%) Architectural Design
7 9 (10.11%) Data Analytics
7 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.11%) Network Design
7 9 (10.11%) SOA
8 8 (8.99%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (8.99%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.74%) Python
2 4 (4.49%) Bash
3 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.12%) Java
4 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) CCIE
3 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.24%) CCNP
5 9 (10.11%) CCIE Data Center
6 7 (7.87%) CCNA
7 4 (4.49%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.25%) Degree
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.12%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.12%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.12%) PMP
10 1 (1.12%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.37%) Docker
3 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.37%) SCCM
3 2 (2.25%) Ansible
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.25%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (58.43%) Cisco
2 31 (34.83%) Palo Alto
3 23 (25.84%) Fortinet
4 17 (19.10%) Juniper
5 13 (14.61%) CheckPoint
6 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
7 9 (10.11%) Infoblox
8 8 (8.99%) Extreme Networks
8 8 (8.99%) Zscaler
9 7 (7.87%) Meraki
10 6 (6.74%) Aruba
10 6 (6.74%) F5
10 6 (6.74%) VMware
11 5 (5.62%) SolarWinds
11 5 (5.62%) Symantec
12 4 (4.49%) HP
13 3 (3.37%) Blue Coat
14 2 (2.25%) Citrix
14 2 (2.25%) Dell
14 2 (2.25%) WatchGuard