Wireless Contracts in the Midlands

Wireless
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 108 150
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 +7
Contract jobs citing Wireless 29 34 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.09% 1.22% 1.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.08% 6.26% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 41
10th Percentile - £200 £185
25th Percentile £363 £244 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -23.53% +126.67%
75th Percentile £580 £450 £450
90th Percentile - £525 £569
England median daily rate £440 £450 £443
% change year-on-year -2.22% +1.69% +23.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.83
25th Percentile £31.25 - £19.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £21.75
75th Percentile £33.75 - £24.06
90th Percentile - - £25.08
England median hourly rate £48.56 £25.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +94.24% -40.48% +82.61%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 359 543 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 19.53% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 302 398
10th Percentile £173 £213 £179
25th Percentile £291 £313 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -3.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £538
90th Percentile £715 £664 £629
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 16
10th Percentile £20.30 £17.05 £15.38
25th Percentile £22.18 £23.00 £16.89
Median hourly rate £24.20 £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.40% +45.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.50 £26.91
90th Percentile - - £46.13
England median hourly rate £49.50 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.37% +25.53% +117.39%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands -9 17 £580 +85.60% 18
East Midlands +9 12 £375 +22.45% 12
Wireless
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 22 (75.86%) LAN
2 20 (68.97%) Firewall
3 11 (37.93%) WAN
4 10 (34.48%) DNS
5 9 (31.03%) DHCP
6 8 (27.59%) TCP/IP
7 7 (24.14%) MPLS
7 7 (24.14%) SD-WAN
7 7 (24.14%) VLAN
8 6 (20.69%) Network Security
8 6 (20.69%) NGFW
9 5 (17.24%) Ethernet
10 3 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (10.34%) Ethereal
10 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
11 1 (3.45%) 5G
11 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (3.45%) IOS XR
11 1 (3.45%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
1 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Legal
3 6 (20.69%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Network Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Network Support
3 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Network Architect
4 5 (17.24%) Support Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) IT Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) IT Support
5 4 (13.79%) Network Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) Network Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Network Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Network Support Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Server Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Service Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Support Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
1 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
1 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (24.14%) Service Management
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
2 6 (20.69%) Customer Service
2 6 (20.69%) PQQ
2 6 (20.69%) Presales
2 6 (20.69%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (17.24%) Mathematics
4 4 (13.79%) Project Management
5 3 (10.34%) High Availability
6 2 (6.90%) Inventory Management
6 2 (6.90%) Network Management
7 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Modelling
7 1 (3.45%) Hardware Maintenance
7 1 (3.45%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (3.45%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (3.45%) Roadmaps
7 1 (3.45%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) C
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (27.59%) CCNA
3 4 (13.79%) CCNP
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.34%) OpenView
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Cisco
2 9 (31.03%) Fortinet
3 8 (27.59%) Veeam
4 7 (24.14%) VMware
5 6 (20.69%) Aerohive Networks
5 6 (20.69%) Aruba
5 6 (20.69%) Avaya
5 6 (20.69%) Juniper
5 6 (20.69%) Mitel
5 6 (20.69%) NetApp
5 6 (20.69%) Nortel
5 6 (20.69%) Zscaler
6 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
7 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.45%) Apple
8 1 (3.45%) Ciena
8 1 (3.45%) Google
8 1 (3.45%) HP
8 1 (3.45%) Meraki