WLAN Jobs in England

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 612 743 815
Rank change year-on-year +131 +72 -113
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 231 210 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 1.46% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 193 172 256
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,550 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,916 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% - +11.84%
75th Percentile £54,225 £51,563 £58,750
90th Percentile £64,010 £62,500 £80,313
UK median annual salary £48,500 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.23% -2.22% +18.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

WLAN 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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,134 14,414 17,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.31% 15.46% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,588 7,484 10,465
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in England

WLAN
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WLAN in England.

Salary trend for WLAN in England

WLAN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in England

WLAN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Midlands +59 73 £48,500 +30.70% 7
North of England +81 71 £44,250 -6.84% 5
West Midlands +83 65 £48,500 +65.81% 7
Yorkshire +116 38 £37,250 -32.27% 1
North West +35 32 £56,250 +12.50% 3
London +100 27 £58,850 +17.70% 16
South West +16 27 £49,750 +12.94% 4
East of England +20 20 £32,000 -36.00% 4
South East -17 17 £47,500 +18.75% 8
East Midlands -20 8 £47,500 +6.02%
North East -13 6 £35,000 +6.06% 1
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.19%) IIS
3 11 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.30%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (40.69%) Azure
2 81 (35.06%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (13.42%) Entra ID
4 23 (9.96%) AWS
5 12 (5.19%) SaaS
6 10 (4.33%) GCP
7 9 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.03%) IaaS
8 7 (3.03%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.03%) PaaS
9 5 (2.16%) Azure Stack
9 5 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.16%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.73%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.30%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.30%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.87%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.87%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 221 (95.67%) LAN
2 162 (70.13%) WAN
3 74 (32.03%) Firewall
4 73 (31.60%) SD-WAN
5 63 (27.27%) MPLS
6 53 (22.94%) VPN
7 49 (21.21%) Wireless
8 47 (20.35%) BGP
9 44 (19.05%) OSPF
10 40 (17.32%) TCP/IP
11 38 (16.45%) Network Security
12 37 (16.02%) DNS
13 31 (13.42%) DHCP
14 29 (12.55%) SAN
15 25 (10.82%) VLAN
15 25 (10.82%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (7.79%) VoIP
17 11 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
18 8 (3.46%) EIGRP
18 8 (3.46%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.46%) MySQL
3 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
General
1 48 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.79%) Retail
3 14 (6.06%) Finance
4 11 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.73%) Agriculture
8 3 (1.30%) Automotive
9 2 (0.87%) Advertising
9 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (29.87%) Analyst
2 55 (23.81%) Operations Analyst
3 53 (22.94%) Network Analyst
4 51 (22.08%) Network Operations Analyst
5 46 (19.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 45 (19.48%) Network Engineer
7 37 (16.02%) Senior
8 20 (8.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) IT Engineer
10 16 (6.93%) IT Analyst
11 15 (6.49%) 2nd Line Support
11 15 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
12 14 (6.06%) IT Support
12 14 (6.06%) Support Engineer
13 11 (4.76%) IT Manager
13 11 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
13 11 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.73%) Web Services
2 3 (1.30%) EDI
3 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.55%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.63%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.03%) CCTV
4 7 (3.03%) EMC VNX
4 7 (3.03%) FMCG
4 7 (3.03%) PMI
4 7 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.16%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.73%) Replication
8 3 (1.30%) Acoustics
8 3 (1.30%) EPoS
8 3 (1.30%) IPTV
8 3 (1.30%) PKI
8 3 (1.30%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (25.11%) Windows
2 39 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 18 (7.79%) Linux
4 16 (6.93%) Windows 10
5 15 (6.49%) Android
6 13 (5.63%) Apple iOS
7 10 (4.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (3.03%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.73%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.73%) VMS
10 4 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.30%) CentOS
12 2 (0.87%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.87%) Rocky
12 2 (0.87%) Unix
12 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (25.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (15.58%) ITIL
3 33 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (13.42%) Service Management
5 28 (12.12%) Customer Service
6 21 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 19 (8.23%) Presales
8 18 (7.79%) Network Architecture
9 17 (7.36%) Cloud Security
10 16 (6.93%) Coaching
11 15 (6.49%) ITSM
12 13 (5.63%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (5.19%) Computer Science
13 12 (5.19%) High Availability
13 12 (5.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
14 11 (4.76%) Mentoring
14 11 (4.76%) Network Virtualisation
14 11 (4.76%) Service Delivery
14 11 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.12%) SQL
2 10 (4.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.03%) Python
4 5 (2.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 65 (28.14%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (22.94%) CCNP
3 50 (21.65%) CCNA
4 39 (16.88%) CCIE
5 37 (16.02%) CCDP
6 25 (10.82%) Degree
7 12 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.46%) Security Cleared
9 7 (3.03%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 7 (3.03%) MCSA
9 7 (3.03%) MCSE
9 7 (3.03%) PMI Certification
9 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (2.60%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.73%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.73%) MCP
12 2 (0.87%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.96%) SLA
2 5 (2.16%) NCSC
3 4 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.73%) GDPR
3 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 81 (35.06%) Active Directory
2 68 (29.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (13.42%) Hyper-V
4 17 (7.36%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (6.49%) vSphere
6 8 (3.46%) Firmware
7 7 (3.03%) Docker
8 4 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.87%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 41 (17.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (10.82%) SCCM
3 13 (5.63%) WSUS
4 12 (5.19%) Nagios
5 10 (4.33%) vCenter Server
6 7 (3.03%) Ansible
6 7 (3.03%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (3.03%) FortiGate
6 7 (3.03%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.60%) SmoothWall
8 5 (2.16%) OfficeScan
8 5 (2.16%) Terraform
9 2 (0.87%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.43%) Nessus
10 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 103 (44.59%) Microsoft
2 95 (41.13%) VMware
3 72 (31.17%) Cisco
4 27 (11.69%) SolarWinds
5 25 (10.82%) Aruba
5 25 (10.82%) Veeam
6 23 (9.96%) Palo Alto
7 20 (8.66%) Citrix
8 18 (7.79%) Fortinet
9 16 (6.93%) Meraki
10 15 (6.49%) Juniper
11 14 (6.06%) Sophos
12 13 (5.63%) CheckPoint
13 11 (4.76%) HP
14 8 (3.46%) Ekahau
15 7 (3.03%) EMC
15 7 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
15 7 (3.03%) Google
16 6 (2.60%) LogicMonitor
17 5 (2.16%) Centreon