Wi-Fi Job Trends in the East Midlands

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 24 132
Rank change year-on-year -99 +108 +1
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 35 203 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.75% 10.41% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.26% 52.19% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 26 20 54
10th Percentile - £29,000 £24,410
25th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £43,750 £67,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £57,000 - £47,125
England median annual salary £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.89% +5.88% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 341 389 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.36% 19.95% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 185 163 460
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £30,274
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Wi-Fi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Wi-Fi in the East Midlands

Wi-Fi
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Derbyshire -2 12 £28,000 -10.40% 4
Northamptonshire -40 10 £41,250 -36.54% 1
Nottinghamshire -18 6 £54,000 +8.00% 1
Leicestershire - 6 £37,500 - 3
Lincolnshire -22 1 - -
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (31.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (31.43%) Entra ID
3 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) Mimecast
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (54.29%) Internet
2 11 (31.43%) Broadband
2 11 (31.43%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) Network Security
3 8 (22.86%) SAN
4 7 (20.00%) Bluetooth
4 7 (20.00%) Wireless
5 5 (14.29%) LAN
5 5 (14.29%) WAN
6 4 (11.43%) LTE
6 4 (11.43%) Modbus
7 3 (8.57%) MQTT
7 3 (8.57%) ZigBee
8 2 (5.71%) Ethernet
8 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
8 2 (5.71%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) Eclipse
2 4 (11.43%) Subversion
3 3 (8.57%) GDB
3 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Retail
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Field Sales Executive
1 9 (25.71%) Sales Executive
2 7 (20.00%) Administrator
2 7 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) IT Administrator
3 5 (14.29%) IT Systems Administrator
4 4 (11.43%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Development Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Development Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) pytest
1 3 (8.57%) Unity DI Container
1 3 (8.57%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Clustering
2 4 (11.43%) Raspberry Pi
3 3 (8.57%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (8.57%) Device Driver
3 3 (8.57%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (8.57%) IoT
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Social Media
5 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Customer Service
2 8 (22.86%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (22.86%) Patch Management
2 8 (22.86%) Server Management
2 8 (22.86%) Storage Management
3 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.57%) BDD
7 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.57%) DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 3 (8.57%) Software Delivery
7 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.57%) Validation
8 2 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
8 2 (5.71%) Service Management
8 2 (5.71%) Transition Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) C
2 7 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Embedded C
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
4 3 (8.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
1 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) City & Guilds
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) JTAG
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) Autotask
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) SonicWALL
2 8 (22.86%) Veeam
3 4 (11.43%) Atmel