Wi-Fi Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 108 129
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 16 21 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.80% 0.95% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.34% 5.71% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 35
10th Percentile £146 £163 £110
25th Percentile £190 £190 £142
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £275 £180
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +52.78% -40.00%
75th Percentile £488 £388 £356
90th Percentile - £700 £438
England median daily rate £395 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +5.33% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.51
England median hourly rate £16.50 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -17.50% +21.21% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Wi-Fi 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 369 368 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.46% 16.67% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 216 278
10th Percentile £200 £263 £163
25th Percentile £306 £347 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +15.85% -0.61%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £548
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 20 10 12
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.48
25th Percentile £13.44 £15.81 £13.69
Median hourly rate £16.98 £21.56 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.26% +14.97% +25.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.44 £20.00
90th Percentile £33.16 £28.88 £20.46
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.02%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Wi-Fi in the West Midlands

Wi-Fi
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 Wi-Fi within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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 11 £475 +48.44% 2
Shropshire -3 4 £159 -57.73%
Solihull - 1 - - 5
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
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:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) LAN
2 10 (62.50%) WAN
3 9 (56.25%) Firewall
4 6 (37.50%) VPN
5 3 (18.75%) VLAN
5 3 (18.75%) VoIP
6 1 (6.25%) Junos
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
1 7 (43.75%) Windows 10
2 5 (31.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (18.75%) Quality Management
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Time Management
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Project Management
5 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) MCSE
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) JNCIA
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) FortiGate
2 5 (31.25%) SCCM
3 3 (18.75%) Autotask
3 3 (18.75%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) Aruba
3 6 (37.50%) F5
4 5 (31.25%) Apple
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 3 (18.75%) Datto
5 3 (18.75%) VMware
6 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (6.25%) Juniper