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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 560 688
Rank change year-on-year +41 +128 -54
Contract jobs citing WLAN 83 135 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 1.91% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 84 119
10th Percentile £220 £300 £213
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £575
90th Percentile £775 £807 £649
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 5,412 7,077 9,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 4,557 6,456
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +6.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -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 9 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

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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 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 +58 70 £494 +3.95% 28
UK excluding London +26 41 £600 +38.73% 21
London +61 31 £450 -18.18% 10
Work from Home +78 30 £450 -7.41% 4
Midlands +23 10 £750 +73.41% 6
West Midlands +14 10 £750 +73.41% 3
South West +16 9 £588 +38.24% 4
North of England +13 8 £650 +42.70% 4
East of England - 6 £575 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 - - 2
South East +1 4 £425 -10.53% 4
Scotland +38 3 £444 -6.58%
North West -4 3 £650 +42.70% 2
Wales +20 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 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.20%) IIS
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.46%) AWS
2 6 (7.23%) Azure
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (3.61%) GCP
3 3 (3.61%) Route 53
3 3 (3.61%) Serverless
3 3 (3.61%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.20%) GitHub
4 1 (1.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 73 (87.95%) LAN
2 57 (68.67%) WAN
3 41 (49.40%) Firewall
4 35 (42.17%) Wireless
5 25 (30.12%) SD-WAN
6 24 (28.92%) VPN
7 14 (16.87%) MPLS
7 14 (16.87%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (13.25%) DHCP
8 11 (13.25%) DNS
8 11 (13.25%) Internet
9 10 (12.05%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (12.05%) VoIP
10 9 (10.84%) BGP
10 9 (10.84%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (10.84%) Network Security
10 9 (10.84%) OSPF
10 9 (10.84%) PBX
11 8 (9.64%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (7.23%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Gradle
1 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (19.28%) Telecoms
2 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Finance
5 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Advertising
7 1 (1.20%) Automotive
7 1 (1.20%) Aviation
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Marketing
7 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Architect
1 22 (26.51%) Network Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Consultant
2 13 (15.66%) Senior
3 11 (13.25%) Network Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Network Consultant
5 6 (7.23%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Network Specialist
5 6 (7.23%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.82%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Lead
7 4 (4.82%) Network Technician
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Network Technician
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Technician
7 4 (4.82%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) Web Services
2 2 (2.41%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.41%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.20%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.30%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.46%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.02%) CMDB
3 5 (6.02%) PKI
4 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.82%) NHS
4 4 (4.82%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.61%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Solar Power
6 2 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.20%) CCTV
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.82%) Linux
4 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.07%) Network Architecture
2 13 (15.66%) Migration
3 11 (13.25%) Presales
4 10 (12.05%) Performance Management
4 10 (12.05%) Programme Management
4 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (12.05%) Storage Management
5 9 (10.84%) Analytics
5 9 (10.84%) Architectural Design
5 9 (10.84%) Data Analytics
5 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (10.84%) SOA
6 8 (9.64%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (9.64%) ITIL
6 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
6 8 (9.64%) Technical Architecture
7 7 (8.43%) Network Design
7 7 (8.43%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.02%) Python
2 4 (4.82%) Bash
3 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.20%) Java
4 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) CCIE
4 10 (12.05%) CCNP
5 9 (10.84%) CCIE Data Center
6 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
7 7 (8.43%) CCNA
8 4 (4.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.41%) DBS Check
10 2 (2.41%) Degree
10 2 (2.41%) RIBA
11 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.20%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.20%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.61%) Docker
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.20%) Firmware
4 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.61%) SCCM
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (54.22%) Cisco
2 25 (30.12%) Palo Alto
3 17 (20.48%) Fortinet
4 13 (15.66%) CheckPoint
5 10 (12.05%) Juniper
5 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
6 8 (9.64%) Infoblox
6 8 (9.64%) Zscaler
7 7 (8.43%) Meraki
8 6 (7.23%) Aruba
8 6 (7.23%) VMware
9 5 (6.02%) F5
9 5 (6.02%) HP
9 5 (6.02%) SolarWinds
9 5 (6.02%) Symantec
10 4 (4.82%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (3.61%) Blue Coat
12 2 (2.41%) Dell
12 2 (2.41%) SonicWALL
12 2 (2.41%) WatchGuard