WLAN Jobs with Work from Home Options

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 473 606 737
Rank change year-on-year +133 +131 -207
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 120 57 115
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.29% 1.22% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 106 54 91
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,941 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £39,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £43,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -20.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £64,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £48,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.49% -3.33% +18.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,233 4,673 7,508
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.45% 11.24% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,379 3,467 4,922
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WLAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WLAN.

WLAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WLAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

WLAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.33%) IIS
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.50%) AutoCAD
2 3 (2.50%) Revit
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.83%) Azure
2 32 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (8.33%) AWS
4 9 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.67%) GCP
6 5 (4.17%) Nutanix
6 5 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.50%) SaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.67%) IaaS
8 2 (1.67%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.67%) PaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 115 (95.83%) LAN
2 98 (81.67%) WAN
3 47 (39.17%) SD-WAN
4 42 (35.00%) MPLS
5 39 (32.50%) Firewall
6 35 (29.17%) OSPF
7 34 (28.33%) BGP
8 28 (23.33%) Network Security
9 25 (20.83%) VPN
10 24 (20.00%) TCP/IP
11 22 (18.33%) DNS
12 20 (16.67%) Wireless
13 17 (14.17%) SAN
14 12 (10.00%) DHCP
15 11 (9.17%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (5.83%) NGFW
18 6 (5.00%) NAS
19 5 (4.17%) VLAN
20 4 (3.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 22 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Marketing
6 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.83%) Finance
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (35.00%) Analyst
2 35 (29.17%) Operations Analyst
3 33 (27.50%) Network Analyst
3 33 (27.50%) Network Engineer
4 31 (25.83%) Network Operations Analyst
5 24 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (12.50%) Senior
7 14 (11.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (11.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 9 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) IT Analyst
9 9 (7.50%) Support Engineer
10 8 (6.67%) IT Engineer
10 8 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) Architect
12 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) Web Services
2 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 8 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.17%) EMC VNX
5 4 (3.33%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.33%) Replication
6 3 (2.50%) Acoustics
6 3 (2.50%) CCTV
6 3 (2.50%) EPoS
6 3 (2.50%) IPTV
7 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.67%) PKI
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Windows
2 15 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (4.17%) Linux
4 5 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.33%) Android
5 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.33%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (24.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (15.00%) ITIL
3 15 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 14 (11.67%) Customer Service
4 14 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (10.83%) Analytics
6 11 (9.17%) Network Architecture
7 10 (8.33%) Agile
7 10 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
8 9 (7.50%) DevOps
8 9 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 9 (7.50%) Service Management
9 8 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (6.67%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.67%) DDoS Mitigation
9 8 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.67%) Machine Learning
9 8 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (0.83%) Bash
2 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (39.17%) Cisco Certification
2 42 (35.00%) CCNP
3 40 (33.33%) CCNA
4 33 (27.50%) CCIE
5 31 (25.83%) CCDP
6 12 (10.00%) Degree
7 8 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.17%) Security Cleared
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.33%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.67%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.67%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.67%) MCSE
10 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.83%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (23.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (7.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.17%) Docker
6 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.33%) vSphere
7 2 (1.67%) Terminal Server
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.17%) SCCM
3 9 (7.50%) Ansible
4 8 (6.67%) Nagios
4 8 (6.67%) Terraform
5 5 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (4.17%) FortiGate
5 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.50%) OfficeScan
6 3 (2.50%) WSUS
7 2 (1.67%) Puppet
7 2 (1.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 45 (37.50%) Cisco
2 40 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 40 (33.33%) VMware
3 18 (15.00%) Veeam
4 17 (14.17%) Meraki
5 14 (11.67%) Citrix
5 14 (11.67%) Palo Alto
6 11 (9.17%) Juniper
7 10 (8.33%) Aruba
7 10 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 10 (8.33%) HP
7 10 (8.33%) Sophos
8 9 (7.50%) SolarWinds
9 8 (6.67%) Zscaler
10 6 (5.00%) CheckPoint
11 5 (4.17%) EMC
11 5 (4.17%) Red Hat
12 4 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
13 3 (2.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 3 (2.50%) Centreon