Wi-Fi Job Trends in Birmingham

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 104 91
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +47
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 9 29 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.52% 1.61% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.63% 12.29% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 13
10th Percentile £29,925 £39,347 £33,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £43,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £45,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -4.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,750 £73,913 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £101,250 £58,750
West Midlands median annual salary £33,000 £46,000 £43,621
% change year-on-year -28.26% +5.45% -3.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

Wi-Fi falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 160 236 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.24% 13.12% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 93 101 215
10th Percentile - £37,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wi-Fi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Wi-Fi in Birmingham

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
1 5 (55.56%) WAN
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) SD-WAN
3 3 (33.33%) BGP
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) IPsec
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (33.33%) OSPF
3 3 (33.33%) VLAN
3 3 (33.33%) Wireshark
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Control
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITSM
2 2 (22.22%) Line Management
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Value Proposition
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CCNP
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Firmware
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) BitLocker
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Meraki
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
1 4 (44.44%) Zscaler
2 3 (33.33%) Dell
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (22.22%) Apple
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) McAfee
3 2 (22.22%) MobileIron
3 2 (22.22%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet