Wi-Fi Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Wi-Fi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wi-Fi 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 95 107 132
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 -3
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 16 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.99% 1.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.32% 5.87% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 36
10th Percentile £146 £164 £110
25th Percentile £190 £191 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £275 £178
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +54.93% -40.83%
75th Percentile £488 £388 £347
90th Percentile - £674 £438
England median daily rate £373 £350 £395
% change year-on-year +6.43% -11.34% +5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.51
England median hourly rate £18.75 £37.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year -50.33% +128.79% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Wi-Fi 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 375 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 16.95% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £253 £163
25th Percentile £300 £323 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £451 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £545
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 19 11 11
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.63 £13.63
Median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +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 12 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 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
Birmingham +15 11 £475 +48.44% 3
Shropshire 0 4 £159 -57.73%
Solihull - 1 - - 4
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