Wireless Engineer Contracts

Wireless Engineer
UK

The median Wireless Engineer daily rate in the UK is £396 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 654 835
Rank change year-on-year +67 +181 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Wireless Engineer 15 41 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.074% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.078% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 10
10th Percentile - £228 £313
25th Percentile £378 £321 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £419
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +9.85% +52.27%
75th Percentile £419 £494 £563
90th Percentile £458 £525 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £425 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -26.09% +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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 7 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 9 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 +73 14 £396 -12.97% 6
UK excluding London +24 7 £396 -6.82% 4
North of England +21 6 £396 -20.80% 1
North West +9 6 £396 -20.80%
Work from Home +104 5 £413 -2.94% 1
London +77 2 £450 -5.26% 3
South East +3 1 £475 +97.21% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 15 (100.00%) Wireless
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 5 (33.33%) DMZ
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (33.33%) ITSM
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (33.33%) F5
3 5 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (33.33%) Aruba
3 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 5 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (20.00%) Ekahau
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (20.00%) LAN
4 3 (20.00%) WLAN
5 2 (13.33%) 802.11
5 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 2 (13.33%) 802.1X
5 2 (13.33%) Meraki
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (6.67%) 4G
6 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.67%) Migration
6 1 (6.67%) HP

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 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) Wireless
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (33.33%) DMZ
2 5 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (20.00%) WLAN
4 2 (13.33%) 802.11
5 1 (6.67%) 4G
5 1 (6.67%) 5G
5 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
3 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (6.67%) Bill of Materials
3 1 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Aruba
2 5 (33.33%) F5
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (20.00%) Ekahau
4 2 (13.33%) Meraki
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.67%) HP