WLAN Job Trends in Birmingham

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 110 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +47
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 6 14 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.74% 0.082%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.68% 5.51% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £41,875 - -
25th Percentile £52,188 £63,150 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £64,600 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% -24.00% +49.45%
75th Percentile £66,500 £66,050 £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £61,000 £35,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +74.29% -27.84% +2.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

WLAN 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 163 254 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.52% 13.51% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 99 102 207
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,375 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £43,313 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £67,138 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,625 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Birmingham

WLAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing WLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing WLAN

WLAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for WLAN in Birmingham

WLAN
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) WebEx
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) MPLS
5 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Designer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Presales Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Presales
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Fortinet
2 3 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) Aruba
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds