CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CWNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 902 964 1220
Rank change year-on-year +62 +256 -317
Permanent jobs citing CWNA 8 15 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.029% 0.044% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £42,875 £30,750 £23,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,750 £27,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -15.84%
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £73,125 £66,500 £43,925
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +23.38% -9.41% -22.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CWNA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,469 33,746 42,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.81% 32.63% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,343 15,179 19,015
10th Percentile £28,258 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.50%

CWNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CWNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CWNA in the UK

CWNA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CWNA.

Salary trend for CWNA in the UK

CWNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CWNA over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CWNA in the UK

CWNA
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CWNA within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +106 8 £47,500 - 1
UK excluding London -16 7 £47,500 +23.38%
South East +21 5 £47,500 +23.38%
Work from Home +77 2 £73,750 +47.50%
West Midlands +25 1 £57,500 +15.00%
Midlands +14 1 £57,500 +15.00%
London - 1 £90,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £35,000 -

CWNA
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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Wireless
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Broadband
3 1 (12.50%) GPON
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
3 1 (12.50%) WLAN
3 1 (12.50%) ZigBee
General
1 5 (62.50%) Marketing
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
4 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Educational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) CAD
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Twin
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Line Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Presales
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (87.50%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CCNP
4 1 (12.50%) CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) CRISC
4 1 (12.50%) CWSP
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 31000
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Aruba
2 6 (75.00%) Ruckus Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Ekahau
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) MikroTik
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam