Wireless Jobs in Scotland

Wireless
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 76 96
Rank change year-on-year -100 +20 +26
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 108 177 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.61% 3.76% 2.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.41% 23.57% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 99 44 17
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,000 -
25th Percentile £34,375 £28,125 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +16.88% -23.00%
75th Percentile £61,875 £56,000 £40,606
90th Percentile £63,000 £60,000 £54,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

Wireless 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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 658 751 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.80% 15.95% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 398 266 415
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £27,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Scotland.

Salary trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Edinburgh +18 44 £50,000 +8.11% 15
Aberdeen -9 25 £52,500 - 9
West Lothian -2 15 £60,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 4 £28,500 - 5
East Ayrshire -4 3 £29,500 -
Glasgow -143 3 £57,500 +76.92% 6
Midlothian -1 1 £35,000 -1.52% 3
Dundee -21 1 £38,000 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (10.19%) Azure
3 7 (6.48%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.56%) AWS
5 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.70%) Slack
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.78%) Asana
6 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.78%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.78%) MailChimp
6 3 (2.78%) Route 53
6 3 (2.78%) SaaS
6 3 (2.78%) Serverless
6 3 (2.78%) Zapier
7 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.07%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (16.67%) LAN
2 18 (16.67%) WAN
3 16 (14.81%) Ethernet
4 14 (12.96%) RS-232
5 12 (11.11%) Firewall
6 11 (10.19%) VPN
7 8 (7.41%) Bluetooth
8 7 (6.48%) DHCP
8 7 (6.48%) TCP/IP
9 5 (4.63%) DNS
10 4 (3.70%) Internet
10 4 (3.70%) VLAN
11 3 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.78%) WLAN
12 2 (1.85%) IPsec
12 2 (1.85%) NGFW
12 2 (1.85%) OSPF
12 2 (1.85%) Spanning Tree
13 1 (0.93%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) GitLab
2 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 62 (57.41%) Social Skills
2 50 (46.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.81%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.41%) Finance
5 6 (5.56%) Legal
6 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Marketing
7 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.85%) Automotive
8 2 (1.85%) Electronics
8 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
2 32 (29.63%) Firmware Engineer
3 27 (25.00%) Senior
4 26 (24.07%) Graduate
4 26 (24.07%) Junior
4 26 (24.07%) Junior Embedded Engineer
5 25 (23.15%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 25 (23.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 25 (23.15%) Software Engineer
6 20 (18.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 20 (18.52%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 20 (18.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Firmware Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Technical Support
10 4 (3.70%) IT Manager
11 3 (2.78%) IT Support
11 3 (2.78%) IT Support Specialist
11 3 (2.78%) Support Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) Yocto
2 1 (0.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Device Driver
2 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.78%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.85%) CCTV
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.93%) Linux
2 15 (13.89%) Embedded Linux
2 15 (13.89%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.70%) CentOS
4 4 (3.70%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.85%) Android
7 1 (0.93%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (56.48%) Software Engineering
2 47 (43.52%) Computer Science
3 41 (37.96%) Mathematics
3 41 (37.96%) Physics
4 14 (12.96%) OOD
5 11 (10.19%) Mentoring
6 8 (7.41%) Customer Service
7 7 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (5.56%) B2B
9 5 (4.63%) Agile
9 5 (4.63%) ITIL
9 5 (4.63%) ITSM
10 4 (3.70%) Customer Experience
10 4 (3.70%) DevOps
10 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (3.70%) Network Design
10 4 (3.70%) Ticket Management
11 3 (2.78%) Collaborative Culture
11 3 (2.78%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (2.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (65.74%) C
2 64 (59.26%) Embedded C
3 5 (4.63%) Bash
3 5 (4.63%) C++
4 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.93%) Perl
5 1 (0.93%) Python
5 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (48.15%) Degree
2 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.78%) HND
3 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.93%) CCNA
4 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.93%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.93%) MCP
4 1 (0.93%) MCSA
4 1 (0.93%) MCSE
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.78%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.93%) SOC 3
System Software
1 59 (54.63%) Firmware
2 32 (29.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 12 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.41%) Active Directory
5 7 (6.48%) Hyper-V
5 7 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Ansible
1 4 (3.70%) Terraform
2 3 (2.78%) Autotask
3 2 (1.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 12 (11.11%) VMware
2 6 (5.56%) Cisco
3 5 (4.63%) Juniper
3 5 (4.63%) Meraki
3 5 (4.63%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.70%) Apple
4 4 (3.70%) Google
5 3 (2.78%) Facebook
5 3 (2.78%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.85%) ConnectWise
6 2 (1.85%) EMC
7 1 (0.93%) Aruba
7 1 (0.93%) Veeam