Wireless Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireless
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 104 102
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +27
Contract jobs citing Wireless 17 25 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 1.13% 2.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.59% 6.67% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 49
10th Percentile £200 £250 £142
25th Percentile £242 £281 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £420 £250
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +68.00% -39.39%
75th Percentile £654 £463 £295
90th Percentile £1,000 £525 £425
England median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +3.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Wireless falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 375 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 16.95% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £253 £163
25th Percentile £300 £323 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £451 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £545
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 11
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.63 £13.63
Median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Birmingham +14 5 £1,000 +122.22% 2
Solihull -8 5 £270 -40.07% 1
Staffordshire +8 2 £200 +5.26% 5
Worcestershire +2 2 £200 -65.22% 1
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Coventry 0 1 £263 -28.81% 2
Herefordshire -10 1 £538 +28.10%
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) LAN
2 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 7 (41.18%) WAN
3 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (29.41%) DHCP
4 5 (29.41%) Ethereal
4 5 (29.41%) Wireshark
5 4 (23.53%) Firewall
6 3 (17.65%) VPN
7 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (11.76%) Internet
7 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
7 2 (11.76%) NAS
7 2 (11.76%) SAN
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (5.88%) Network Security
8 1 (5.88%) NGFW
8 1 (5.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Military
6 1 (5.88%) Automotive
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Finance
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Network Support
2 6 (35.29%) Network Support Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) LAMP
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.76%) VMS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
3 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) Open Source
3 2 (11.76%) OSINT
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
3 2 (11.76%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) CCNA
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (35.29%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) vSphere
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) OpenView
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Veeam
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Aruba
4 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.76%) ProCurve
4 2 (11.76%) Synology
4 2 (11.76%) Zerto
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow