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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 376 503
Rank change year-on-year +139 +127 -113
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 1,212 858 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.87% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.00% 5.50% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 636 851
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,000 £32,750
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 £54,063 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% -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 13,460 15,589 21,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.83% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,833 11,758
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +146 1,129 £42,500 +6.25% 239
UK excluding London +84 893 £40,000 +3.90% 192
Work from Home +170 416 £47,500 +5.56% 94
London +163 290 £51,250 +10.22% 82
North of England +74 246 £40,000 - 40
South East +52 184 £40,000 +3.90% 71
Midlands +66 178 £37,500 +11.74% 25
North West +7 137 £40,000 - 17
South West +28 121 £40,000 - 22
East of England +43 117 £32,500 -7.80% 21
West Midlands +58 110 £32,500 -2.99% 13
Yorkshire +107 88 £37,750 +9.42% 20
East Midlands +28 63 £40,000 +14.29% 11
Scotland -64 38 £35,000 -33.96% 3
North East 0 26 £42,500 +9.68% 3
Wales +16 18 £33,750 +0.13% 17
Northern Ireland +29 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
1 150 (12.38%) SharePoint
2 119 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.40%) Confluence
4 7 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2000
5 6 (0.50%) IIS
6 5 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.17%) WordPress
9 1 (0.083%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.083%) Site Server
Applications
1 147 (12.13%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Trello
5 1 (0.083%) 1Password
5 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.33%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.083%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.083%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 498 (41.09%) Microsoft 365
2 393 (32.43%) Azure
3 153 (12.62%) Entra ID
4 92 (7.59%) AWS
5 76 (6.27%) OneDrive
6 53 (4.37%) SaaS
7 51 (4.21%) IaaS
8 47 (3.88%) PaaS
9 21 (1.73%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.57%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.49%) GCP
12 17 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (1.07%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.99%) WhatsApp
15 9 (0.74%) Nutanix
16 8 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (0.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 7 (0.58%) Slack
18 6 (0.50%) GitHub
18 6 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 434 (35.81%) LAN
2 406 (33.50%) WAN
3 398 (32.84%) Firewall
4 275 (22.69%) Wireless
5 229 (18.89%) DHCP
6 220 (18.15%) DNS
7 202 (16.67%) VPN
8 136 (11.22%) TCP/IP
8 136 (11.22%) VLAN
9 116 (9.57%) SD-WAN
10 107 (8.83%) MPLS
11 105 (8.66%) Internet
12 103 (8.50%) Network Security
13 92 (7.59%) Bluetooth
14 74 (6.11%) Ethernet
15 69 (5.69%) VoIP
16 64 (5.28%) BGP
17 52 (4.29%) OSPF
18 45 (3.71%) LTE
19 39 (3.22%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (0.91%) MySQL
4 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.33%) Power BI
7 3 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.25%) Tableau
8 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (3.05%) JIRA
2 22 (1.82%) LabVIEW
3 19 (1.57%) Git
4 5 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.33%) Subversion
5 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.25%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.083%) Eclipse
General
1 341 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 112 (9.24%) Finance
3 99 (8.17%) Telecoms
4 90 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.11%) Retail
6 64 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (4.87%) Manufacturing
9 54 (4.46%) Electronics
10 52 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 32 (2.64%) Law
13 27 (2.23%) Marketing
14 24 (1.98%) Legal
15 22 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.65%) Local Government
17 14 (1.16%) Automotive
18 12 (0.99%) Games
18 12 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
19 11 (0.91%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 191 (15.76%) Network Engineer
2 185 (15.26%) IT Engineer
3 181 (14.93%) IT Support
4 180 (14.85%) Support Engineer
5 156 (12.87%) Senior
6 110 (9.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 106 (8.75%) IT Support Engineer
8 85 (7.01%) Analyst
9 68 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
10 66 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 66 (5.45%) IT Technician
11 63 (5.20%) IT Manager
11 63 (5.20%) Project Manager
12 61 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support
12 61 (5.03%) Software Engineer
13 58 (4.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 57 (4.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 48 (3.96%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 47 (3.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 40 (3.30%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.24%) REST
2 13 (1.07%) Yocto
3 10 (0.83%) 802.1X
4 9 (0.74%) HTML
5 8 (0.66%) Laravel
6 7 (0.58%) Vue
6 7 (0.58%) X-Windows
7 6 (0.50%) CSS
7 6 (0.50%) NETCONF
7 6 (0.50%) React Native
8 5 (0.41%) .NET
9 4 (0.33%) Flask
10 3 (0.25%) Android Jetpack
10 3 (0.25%) COM
10 3 (0.25%) Node.js
10 3 (0.25%) OpenGL
10 3 (0.25%) Qt
10 3 (0.25%) SignalR
10 3 (0.25%) WinForms
11 2 (0.17%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 160 (13.20%) Driving Licence
2 132 (10.89%) Data Centre
3 60 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.29%) CCTV
5 48 (3.96%) IoT
6 45 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 43 (3.55%) EPoS
8 40 (3.30%) Public Cloud
9 37 (3.05%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
11 25 (2.06%) PKI
12 22 (1.82%) Acoustics
12 22 (1.82%) Satnav
13 21 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (1.24%) Social Media
15 13 (1.07%) Device Driver
15 13 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.07%) PropTech
16 12 (0.99%) iPad
17 11 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 489 (40.35%) Windows
2 242 (19.97%) Windows Server
3 157 (12.95%) Windows 10
4 103 (8.50%) Linux
5 60 (4.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 57 (4.70%) Android
7 52 (4.29%) Mac OS
8 50 (4.13%) Apple iOS
9 49 (4.04%) Windows Server 2012
10 44 (3.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (2.81%) Embedded Linux
12 23 (1.90%) Windows 7
13 18 (1.49%) VyOS
14 11 (0.91%) Mac OS X
14 11 (0.91%) Windows 8
15 10 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.74%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
17 6 (0.50%) ThreadX
18 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (16.50%) Customer Service
2 195 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (14.03%) Cybersecurity
4 153 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 124 (10.23%) ITIL
6 122 (10.07%) Agile
7 95 (7.84%) Project Management
8 81 (6.68%) Software Engineering
9 79 (6.52%) Service Delivery
10 75 (6.19%) Asset Management
11 62 (5.12%) Mentoring
12 60 (4.95%) Disaster Recovery
13 59 (4.87%) Project Delivery
14 57 (4.70%) PRINCE2
15 56 (4.62%) Migration
16 52 (4.29%) Computer Science
17 51 (4.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 48 (3.96%) Coaching
19 47 (3.88%) Proactive Maintenance
20 44 (3.63%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 74 (6.11%) C
2 68 (5.61%) PowerShell
3 59 (4.87%) SQL
4 48 (3.96%) Python
5 42 (3.47%) Embedded C
6 24 (1.98%) C++
7 19 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.16%) C#
9 11 (0.91%) PHP
10 7 (0.58%) Bash
11 4 (0.33%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.25%) VB
13 1 (0.083%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.083%) VBA
Qualifications
1 190 (15.68%) Degree
2 135 (11.14%) Cisco Certification
3 88 (7.26%) CCNA
4 72 (5.94%) Security Cleared
5 64 (5.28%) CCNP
6 44 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.31%) SC Cleared
10 27 (2.23%) A+ Certification
11 26 (2.15%) CCIE
11 26 (2.15%) JNCIA
12 25 (2.06%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
14 22 (1.82%) CISSP
15 18 (1.49%) MCSE
16 16 (1.32%) APMP
17 13 (1.07%) Master's Degree
18 10 (0.83%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.34%) SLA
2 55 (4.54%) PCI DSS
3 47 (3.88%) GDPR
4 31 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.91%) NCSC
7 10 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.66%) IEC 62304
8 8 (0.66%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (0.66%) QA
9 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.41%) MISRA
10 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.33%) NIST
11 3 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
11 3 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
11 3 (0.25%) JTAG
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 355 (29.29%) Active Directory
2 132 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (8.09%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.22%) KVM
5 34 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (2.06%) Firmware
7 17 (1.40%) vSphere
8 12 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
10 5 (0.41%) Docker
10 5 (0.41%) pfSense
10 5 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.083%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 114 (9.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.38%) SCCM
2 41 (3.38%) WSUS
3 24 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
4 22 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 16 (1.32%) Autotask
6 11 (0.91%) PaperCut
7 10 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
7 10 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.74%) SmoothWall
9 7 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.50%) Ansible
10 6 (0.50%) Backup Exec
10 6 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
10 6 (0.50%) Terraform
11 5 (0.41%) Nagios
11 5 (0.41%) OfficeScan
12 4 (0.33%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.33%) Nessus
13 3 (0.25%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 480 (39.60%) Microsoft
2 325 (26.82%) Cisco
3 191 (15.76%) VMware
4 124 (10.23%) Meraki
5 89 (7.34%) Fortinet
6 85 (7.01%) Aruba
7 73 (6.02%) Veeam
8 72 (5.94%) Dell
9 68 (5.61%) Apple
10 60 (4.95%) HP
11 58 (4.79%) Juniper
12 55 (4.54%) Ruckus Wireless
13 50 (4.13%) Palo Alto
14 48 (3.96%) Citrix
15 37 (3.05%) Google
15 37 (3.05%) SolarWinds
16 31 (2.56%) Nokia
17 29 (2.39%) CheckPoint
17 29 (2.39%) Draytek
18 26 (2.15%) Ubiquiti