Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 645 778 879
Rank change year-on-year +133 +101 -156
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 250 218 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% 1.38% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 207 175 283
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -3.33% +18.42%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,200 £64,000 £79,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £40,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year +19.75% +2.53% +3.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the UK

WLAN
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +111 230 £48,500 +14.12% 43
UK excluding London +49 214 £48,500 +19.75% 35
Work from Home +133 120 £48,500 +10.86% 16
Midlands +57 74 £48,500 +30.70% 9
North of England +75 70 £43,500 -10.77% 5
West Midlands +70 66 £48,500 +65.81% 8
Yorkshire +108 37 £37,000 -32.73% 1
North West +27 32 £56,250 +12.50% 3
South West -8 27 £49,750 +12.94% 4
London +94 26 £58,850 +17.70% 11
East of England +20 21 £32,000 -36.00% 5
South East -27 17 £48,750 +21.88% 10
East Midlands -18 8 £47,500 +28.00% 1
North East -12 6 £35,000 +6.06% 1
Wales +10 5 £44,886 -12.62% 1
Scotland -59 5 £50,000 -33.33% 1
Northern Ireland +27 2 - - 2

WLAN
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 20 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.80%) IIS
3 11 (4.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.80%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.20%) Revit
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (41.20%) Azure
2 83 (33.20%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.40%) Entra ID
4 23 (9.20%) AWS
5 14 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.80%) SaaS
7 10 (4.00%) GCP
8 7 (2.80%) IaaS
8 7 (2.80%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.80%) PaaS
9 5 (2.00%) Azure Stack
9 5 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.00%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.60%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.60%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.80%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.80%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.80%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 240 (96.00%) LAN
2 177 (70.80%) WAN
3 90 (36.00%) Firewall
4 78 (31.20%) SD-WAN
5 69 (27.60%) MPLS
6 68 (27.20%) VPN
7 51 (20.40%) Network Security
8 50 (20.00%) BGP
8 50 (20.00%) Wireless
9 48 (19.20%) OSPF
9 48 (19.20%) TCP/IP
10 43 (17.20%) DNS
11 32 (12.80%) DHCP
12 30 (12.00%) VLAN
13 29 (11.60%) SAN
13 29 (11.60%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (7.20%) VoIP
15 11 (4.40%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (3.60%) Unified Communications
17 8 (3.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.20%) MySQL
3 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.80%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 48 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.20%) Retail
3 16 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.60%) Finance
6 6 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Local Government
7 5 (2.00%) Police
8 4 (1.60%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Automotive
9 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Advertising
10 2 (0.80%) Marketing
10 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 72 (28.80%) Analyst
2 57 (22.80%) Operations Analyst
3 56 (22.40%) Network Analyst
4 54 (21.60%) Network Engineer
5 53 (21.20%) Network Operations Analyst
6 46 (18.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 45 (18.00%) Senior
8 20 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 19 (7.60%) Senior Network Engineer
10 17 (6.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (6.40%) IT Analyst
11 16 (6.40%) IT Engineer
12 15 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
12 15 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support
13 14 (5.60%) IT Support
13 14 (5.60%) Support Engineer
14 11 (4.40%) IT Support Analyst
14 11 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (4.40%) Support Analyst
15 10 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.60%) Web Services
2 3 (1.20%) EDI
3 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.20%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (2.80%) CCTV
6 7 (2.80%) EMC VNX
6 7 (2.80%) FMCG
6 7 (2.80%) PMI
6 7 (2.80%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.60%) Replication
8 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.20%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.20%) EPoS
9 3 (1.20%) IPTV
9 3 (1.20%) PKI
9 3 (1.20%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.20%) Windows
2 39 (15.60%) Windows Server
3 19 (7.60%) Linux
4 16 (6.40%) Android
4 16 (6.40%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.60%) Apple iOS
6 10 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.80%) Windows 7
9 5 (2.00%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.60%) VMS
10 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.20%) CentOS
12 2 (0.80%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.80%) Rocky
12 2 (0.80%) Unix
12 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (18.40%) ITIL
3 39 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (15.20%) Customer Service
5 34 (13.60%) Service Management
6 21 (8.40%) Project Delivery
7 20 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (8.00%) Network Architecture
8 19 (7.60%) ITSM
8 19 (7.60%) Presales
9 17 (6.80%) Cloud Security
9 17 (6.80%) High Availability
10 16 (6.40%) Coaching
10 16 (6.40%) Network Virtualisation
11 15 (6.00%) Service Delivery
12 14 (5.60%) Analytics
12 14 (5.60%) Change Management
12 14 (5.60%) Computer Science
12 14 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (5.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.60%) SQL
2 10 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.80%) Python
4 5 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 76 (30.40%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (23.60%) CCNP
3 50 (20.00%) CCNA
4 40 (16.00%) CCIE
5 38 (15.20%) CCDP
6 35 (14.00%) Degree
7 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.00%) MCSE
10 8 (3.20%) Security Cleared
11 7 (2.80%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 7 (2.80%) MCSA
11 7 (2.80%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.80%) SC Cleared
11 7 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (2.40%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.60%) MCP
14 2 (0.80%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.20%) SLA
2 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.00%) NCSC
3 4 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 69 (27.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (12.40%) Hyper-V
4 17 (6.80%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (6.00%) vSphere
6 8 (3.20%) Firmware
7 7 (2.80%) Docker
8 4 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.80%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 41 (16.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (10.00%) SCCM
3 13 (5.20%) WSUS
4 12 (4.80%) Nagios
5 10 (4.00%) Terraform
5 10 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.60%) Ansible
7 7 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (2.80%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (2.80%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.80%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.40%) SmoothWall
9 5 (2.00%) OfficeScan
10 2 (0.80%) Puppet
10 2 (0.80%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.40%) Nessus
11 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 107 (42.80%) Microsoft
2 95 (38.00%) VMware
3 87 (34.80%) Cisco
4 28 (11.20%) SolarWinds
5 27 (10.80%) Meraki
6 25 (10.00%) Aruba
6 25 (10.00%) Veeam
7 23 (9.20%) Palo Alto
8 20 (8.00%) Citrix
8 20 (8.00%) Fortinet
9 15 (6.00%) Juniper
10 14 (5.60%) CheckPoint
10 14 (5.60%) Sophos
11 11 (4.40%) HP
12 9 (3.60%) Zscaler
13 8 (3.20%) Ekahau
13 8 (3.20%) Google
14 7 (2.80%) EMC
14 7 (2.80%) Extreme Networks
15 6 (2.40%) LogicMonitor