Wi-Fi Contracts with Work from Home Options

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 310 422
Rank change year-on-year +39 +112 -18
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 70 148 206
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.62% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.57% 5.28% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 94 144
10th Percentile £300 £229 £226
25th Percentile £359 £341 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £550
90th Percentile £548 £730 £645
UK median daily rate £400 £375 £388
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 8
10th Percentile - £20.00 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £62.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £15.75 £78.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.94% +265.12% +7.50%
75th Percentile £16.63 £80.44 £22.25
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
UK median hourly rate £19.17 £51.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -62.78% +212.12% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Wi-Fi 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

Wi-Fi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Wi-Fi trend for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Wi-Fi daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.86%) Confluence
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.43%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.86%) Azure
2 4 (5.71%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.86%) GitHub
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.43%) GCP
5 1 (1.43%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.43%) IaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Slack
5 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.14%) Firewall
2 25 (35.71%) LAN
3 17 (24.29%) WAN
4 13 (18.57%) VPN
5 12 (17.14%) BGP
5 12 (17.14%) SD-WAN
5 12 (17.14%) Structured Cabling
6 11 (15.71%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (15.71%) OSPF
7 10 (14.29%) Wireless
8 8 (11.43%) EIGRP
8 8 (11.43%) IPsec
8 8 (11.43%) WLAN
9 7 (10.00%) 802.11
9 7 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (10.00%) Network Security
10 6 (8.57%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (8.57%) HSRP
10 6 (8.57%) NetScaler
10 6 (8.57%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.43%) InfluxDB
1 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
1 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) French Language
6 1 (1.43%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Military
6 1 (1.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Network Engineer
2 16 (22.86%) Project Manager
3 6 (8.57%) Architect
3 6 (8.57%) Consultant
3 6 (8.57%) IT Support
3 6 (8.57%) Network Architect
3 6 (8.57%) Senior
4 5 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Presales Consultant
4 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Network Technical Architect
6 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.29%) Wireless Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Support Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 6 (8.57%) Jinja
3 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.43%) Django
3 1 (1.43%) Flask
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.86%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.43%) Clustering
2 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (1.43%) IoT
2 1 (1.43%) NHS
2 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.43%) Windows
2 5 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.29%) Android
4 2 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.86%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.43%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (30.00%) Change Management
3 15 (21.43%) Project Management
4 14 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 12 (17.14%) Risk Management
6 11 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.86%) Line Management
8 8 (11.43%) ITIL
8 8 (11.43%) Network Management
8 8 (11.43%) Project Planning
9 7 (10.00%) DevOps
10 6 (8.57%) Customer Service
10 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
11 5 (7.14%) ITSM
11 5 (7.14%) Presales
11 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
12 4 (5.71%) CI/CD
12 4 (5.71%) Email Filtering
12 4 (5.71%) Kalman Filter
13 3 (4.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.71%) Perl
1 11 (15.71%) Tcl
2 10 (14.29%) Python
3 5 (7.14%) C
3 5 (7.14%) C++
4 4 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.71%) CCNP
4 10 (14.29%) CCNA
4 10 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (5.71%) Degree
6 3 (4.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.86%) CCIE
8 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.43%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Firmware
2 5 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.43%) Docker
5 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Terraform
4 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Cisco
2 15 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.00%) Citrix
5 6 (8.57%) Fortinet
5 6 (8.57%) SolarWinds
6 5 (7.14%) Aruba
6 5 (7.14%) Meraki
6 5 (7.14%) VMware
7 4 (5.71%) F5
7 4 (5.71%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.29%) Ekahau
8 3 (4.29%) Juniper
9 2 (2.86%) Google
9 2 (2.86%) HP
9 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.86%) Splunk
10 1 (1.43%) Commvault
10 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.43%) Veeam