Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 370 516
Rank change year-on-year +128 +146 -126
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 1,235 850 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 0.90% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.08% 5.51% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 636 838
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,750 £38,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.25% -14.44% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi.

Salary trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +141 1,147 £42,500 +6.25% 207
UK excluding London +71 906 £39,750 +3.25% 172
Work from Home +176 426 £47,500 +5.56% 90
London +142 299 £52,000 +14.29% 51
North of England +73 251 £40,000 - 45
South East +42 191 £40,000 +3.90% 47
Midlands +66 175 £36,250 +6.62% 25
North West +3 136 £40,000 - 19
East of England +39 119 £32,500 -9.72% 16
South West +12 119 £40,000 - 20
West Midlands +41 108 £32,500 -4.41% 17
Yorkshire +96 91 £37,500 +8.70% 18
East Midlands +19 63 £40,000 +17.65% 8
Scotland -72 40 £35,000 -23.50% 14
North East +1 30 £42,500 +9.68% 8
Wales +11 21 £32,500 - 9
Northern Ireland +23 5 - - 2

Wi-Fi
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
1 147 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 118 (9.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.38%) Confluence
4 6 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2000
4 6 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (0.49%) IIS
5 5 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) JOnAS
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 148 (11.98%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) Trello
5 1 (0.081%) 1Password
5 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.32%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.081%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.081%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 501 (40.57%) Microsoft 365
2 401 (32.47%) Azure
3 156 (12.63%) Entra ID
4 90 (7.29%) AWS
5 74 (5.99%) OneDrive
6 54 (4.37%) IaaS
7 52 (4.21%) SaaS
8 49 (3.97%) PaaS
9 22 (1.78%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.54%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (1.38%) GCP
13 13 (1.05%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.97%) WhatsApp
15 8 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.65%) Nutanix
16 7 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 7 (0.57%) Slack
17 6 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 437 (35.38%) LAN
2 413 (33.44%) WAN
3 404 (32.71%) Firewall
4 278 (22.51%) Wireless
5 226 (18.30%) DHCP
6 216 (17.49%) DNS
7 204 (16.52%) VPN
8 138 (11.17%) TCP/IP
9 133 (10.77%) VLAN
10 123 (9.96%) SD-WAN
11 109 (8.83%) Internet
12 108 (8.74%) MPLS
13 106 (8.58%) Network Security
14 91 (7.37%) Bluetooth
15 74 (5.99%) Ethernet
16 73 (5.91%) VoIP
17 66 (5.34%) BGP
18 54 (4.37%) OSPF
19 45 (3.64%) LTE
20 39 (3.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (0.97%) MySQL
4 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.40%) Power BI
6 3 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (2.91%) JIRA
2 22 (1.78%) LabVIEW
3 19 (1.54%) Git
4 5 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.32%) Subversion
5 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.24%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.081%) Eclipse
General
1 344 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 111 (8.99%) Finance
3 102 (8.26%) Telecoms
4 90 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.15%) Retail
6 64 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (4.62%) Manufacturing
9 55 (4.45%) Electronics
10 53 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (3.56%) Public Sector
12 32 (2.59%) Law
13 25 (2.02%) Marketing
14 24 (1.94%) Legal
15 22 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.62%) Local Government
17 14 (1.13%) Games
18 13 (1.05%) Automotive
19 12 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
20 11 (0.89%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 201 (16.28%) Network Engineer
2 189 (15.30%) Support Engineer
3 186 (15.06%) IT Engineer
4 184 (14.90%) IT Support
5 156 (12.63%) Senior
6 110 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 105 (8.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 84 (6.80%) Analyst
9 70 (5.67%) Embedded Engineer
10 66 (5.34%) IT Technician
11 65 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 65 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 62 (5.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 62 (5.02%) IT Manager
13 61 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support
13 61 (4.94%) Project Manager
14 57 (4.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 48 (3.89%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 47 (3.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 40 (3.24%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.30%) REST
2 13 (1.05%) Yocto
3 10 (0.81%) 802.1X
3 10 (0.81%) HTML
4 8 (0.65%) Laravel
5 7 (0.57%) Vue
5 7 (0.57%) X-Windows
6 6 (0.49%) CSS
6 6 (0.49%) NETCONF
6 6 (0.49%) React Native
7 5 (0.40%) .NET
8 4 (0.32%) Flask
9 3 (0.24%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (0.24%) COM
9 3 (0.24%) Node.js
9 3 (0.24%) OpenGL
9 3 (0.24%) Qt
9 3 (0.24%) SignalR
9 3 (0.24%) WinForms
10 2 (0.16%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 159 (12.87%) Driving Licence
2 134 (10.85%) Data Centre
3 61 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.21%) CCTV
5 48 (3.89%) IoT
6 47 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 43 (3.48%) EPoS
8 40 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 39 (3.16%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
11 26 (2.11%) PKI
12 22 (1.78%) Acoustics
12 22 (1.78%) Satnav
13 21 (1.70%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (1.21%) Social Media
15 13 (1.05%) Device Driver
15 13 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.05%) PropTech
16 12 (0.97%) iPad
16 12 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 488 (39.51%) Windows
2 241 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 158 (12.79%) Windows 10
4 108 (8.74%) Linux
5 61 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 58 (4.70%) Android
7 51 (4.13%) Apple iOS
8 50 (4.05%) Mac OS
9 47 (3.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 44 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 36 (2.91%) Embedded Linux
12 24 (1.94%) Windows 7
13 18 (1.46%) VyOS
14 11 (0.89%) Mac OS X
14 11 (0.89%) Windows 8
15 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.73%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
17 6 (0.49%) ThreadX
18 4 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (16.36%) Customer Service
2 193 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 171 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
4 152 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 128 (10.36%) ITIL
6 118 (9.55%) Agile
7 95 (7.69%) Project Management
8 83 (6.72%) Software Engineering
9 81 (6.56%) Service Delivery
10 77 (6.23%) Asset Management
11 61 (4.94%) Mentoring
12 60 (4.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 60 (4.86%) Project Delivery
13 57 (4.62%) PRINCE2
14 56 (4.53%) Migration
15 53 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (4.13%) Computer Science
17 48 (3.89%) Coaching
18 47 (3.81%) Proactive Maintenance
19 44 (3.56%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 74 (5.99%) C
2 69 (5.59%) PowerShell
3 59 (4.78%) SQL
4 49 (3.97%) Python
5 42 (3.40%) Embedded C
6 27 (2.19%) C++
7 20 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.13%) C#
9 12 (0.97%) PHP
10 7 (0.57%) Bash
11 5 (0.40%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.24%) VB
13 1 (0.081%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.081%) VBA
Qualifications
1 195 (15.79%) Degree
2 142 (11.50%) Cisco Certification
3 93 (7.53%) CCNA
4 71 (5.75%) Security Cleared
5 68 (5.51%) CCNP
6 44 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.19%) SC Cleared
10 26 (2.11%) CCIE
10 26 (2.11%) JNCIA
11 25 (2.02%) A+ Certification
12 24 (1.94%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.78%) CISSP
13 22 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
14 18 (1.46%) MCSE
15 16 (1.30%) APMP
16 13 (1.05%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.81%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.69%) SLA
2 55 (4.45%) PCI DSS
3 50 (4.05%) GDPR
4 34 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.05%) NCSC
7 10 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.65%) IEC 62304
8 8 (0.65%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (0.65%) QA
9 5 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.40%) MISRA
10 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.32%) NIST
11 3 (0.24%) JTAG
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
13 1 (0.081%) AUTOSAR
13 1 (0.081%) PMO
System Software
1 358 (28.99%) Active Directory
2 131 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (7.85%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.16%) KVM
5 33 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (2.02%) Firmware
7 17 (1.38%) vSphere
8 12 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
10 5 (0.40%) Docker
10 5 (0.40%) pfSense
11 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.081%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.081%) NFS
Systems Management
1 115 (9.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.40%) SCCM
3 40 (3.24%) WSUS
4 25 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
5 23 (1.86%) FortiGate
6 17 (1.38%) Autotask
7 11 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
7 11 (0.89%) PaperCut
8 10 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 8 (0.65%) SmoothWall
10 7 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.49%) Ansible
11 6 (0.49%) Backup Exec
11 6 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
11 6 (0.49%) Terraform
12 5 (0.40%) Nagios
12 5 (0.40%) OfficeScan
13 4 (0.32%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.32%) Nessus
14 3 (0.24%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 485 (39.27%) Microsoft
2 334 (27.04%) Cisco
3 189 (15.30%) VMware
4 124 (10.04%) Meraki
5 92 (7.45%) Fortinet
6 84 (6.80%) Aruba
7 73 (5.91%) Veeam
8 72 (5.83%) Dell
9 65 (5.26%) Apple
10 61 (4.94%) HP
11 58 (4.70%) Juniper
12 55 (4.45%) Ruckus Wireless
13 50 (4.05%) Palo Alto
14 48 (3.89%) Citrix
15 39 (3.16%) SolarWinds
16 36 (2.91%) Google
17 31 (2.51%) Nokia
18 30 (2.43%) CheckPoint
19 29 (2.35%) Draytek
20 25 (2.02%) Ubiquiti