Wireless Contracts in the North West

Wireless
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 93 86 129
Rank change year-on-year -7 +43 -15
Contract jobs citing Wireless 42 68 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 2.26% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.88% 15.96% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 46 30
10th Percentile - £263 -
25th Percentile £313 £307 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% +35.71% +47.37%
75th Percentile £433 £488 £444
90th Percentile £548 £525 £494
England median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.85 - -
25th Percentile £23.38 - £22.58
Median hourly rate £24.25 - £23.06
75th Percentile £25.13 - £23.53
90th Percentile £25.65 - -
England median hourly rate £19.35 £50.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -61.31% +53.85% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 426 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.68% 14.14% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 286 370
10th Percentile £209 £288 £172
25th Percentile £329 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.11% +14.06%
75th Percentile £666 £565 £585
90th Percentile £828 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 10
10th Percentile £20.93 £15.41 £10.96
25th Percentile £25.13 £18.93 £16.42
Median hourly rate £40.44 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +62.34% +32.17%
75th Percentile £46.60 £51.06 £49.94
90th Percentile £50.78 £53.22 £65.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +18 33 £396 -12.00% 16
Cheshire -10 6 £550 +29.41% 7
Merseyside +10 3 £295 -41.00% 3
Wireless
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) DMZ
1 14 (33.33%) LAN
1 14 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 13 (30.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (28.57%) WAN
4 11 (26.19%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (26.19%) VPN
4 11 (26.19%) Wireless Security
5 10 (23.81%) Ethernet
5 10 (23.81%) OSPF
6 3 (7.14%) DHCP
6 3 (7.14%) DNS
6 3 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (4.76%) Broadband
7 2 (4.76%) Firewall
7 2 (4.76%) Network Security
7 2 (4.76%) VoIP
7 2 (4.76%) WLAN
8 1 (2.38%) BGP
8 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Network Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Wireless Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Wireless Network Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Coordinator
5 3 (7.14%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Switch Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead
7 1 (2.38%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) WLAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 7 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (26.19%) ITSM
2 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (7.14%) Load Balancing
4 3 (7.14%) Performance Management
4 3 (7.14%) Test Planning
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.76%) Information Security
5 2 (4.76%) Migration
5 2 (4.76%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (2.38%) Project Planning
6 1 (2.38%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) Bash
1 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (26.19%) CCNA
4 5 (11.90%) CCNP
5 2 (4.76%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.38%) CCIE
6 1 (2.38%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
2 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Cisco
2 14 (33.33%) F5
2 14 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 8 (19.05%) VMware
4 4 (9.52%) SolarWinds
5 3 (7.14%) Aruba
5 3 (7.14%) Meraki
6 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam