Wireless Job Trends in the East Midlands

Wireless
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 30 161
Rank change year-on-year -93 +131 -137
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 34 191 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.72% 9.71% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 47.87% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 29 11 33
10th Percentile - £30,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £33,125 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +28.21% -13.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £58,000 £44,750
90th Percentile £57,000 £62,500 £58,340
England median annual salary £49,000 £44,850 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.25% -0.33% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

Wireless 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 272 399 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.74% 20.27% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 197 166 470
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,438 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,150 £62,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Wireless
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the East Midlands

Wireless
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 Wireless within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Lincolnshire - 17 £27,500 - 3
Nottinghamshire -17 7 £54,000 +8.00% 2
Leicestershire - 5 £36,000 - 6
Northamptonshire -42 4 £42,500 +26.87% 2
Derbyshire -5 1 £34,000 -37.04%
Wireless
England

Wireless
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:

Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Bluetooth
1 10 (29.41%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (26.47%) WAN
3 8 (23.53%) DNS
3 8 (23.53%) VPN
4 7 (20.59%) DHCP
5 6 (17.65%) LTE
5 6 (17.65%) Modbus
5 6 (17.65%) SD-WAN
5 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
6 4 (11.76%) MQTT
6 4 (11.76%) ZigBee
7 3 (8.82%) Firewall
7 3 (8.82%) LAN
8 2 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (2.94%) IPsec
9 1 (2.94%) SAN
9 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Eclipse
2 4 (11.76%) GDB
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Robot Framework
2 4 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Automotive
3 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Military
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) IT Support
1 14 (41.18%) Support Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Embedded Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) IT Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) IT Support Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (11.76%) IT Technician
3 4 (11.76%) Support Technician
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Support
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.94%) Administrator
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) pytest
1 4 (11.76%) Unity DI Container
1 4 (11.76%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Driving Licence
2 9 (26.47%) CCTV
3 6 (17.65%) Raspberry Pi
4 4 (11.76%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (11.76%) Device Driver
4 4 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (11.76%) IoT
4 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 9 (26.47%) Time Management
4 8 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (20.59%) ITSM
5 7 (20.59%) Logistics
6 6 (17.65%) ERP
6 6 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (14.71%) Problem Management
8 4 (11.76%) BDD
8 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.76%) DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
8 4 (11.76%) Software Delivery
8 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) C
2 9 (26.47%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded C
4 4 (11.76%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) DBS Check
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) JTAG
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.59%) Firmware
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Nagios
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Atmel
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Epicor
4 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.88%) TP-LINK
5 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.94%) F5
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki
5 1 (2.94%) VMware