WLAN Job Trends in the East Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 128 188
Rank change year-on-year -24 +60 -33
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 5 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 1.29% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,500 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.00%
75th Percentile £34,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile £37,950 - £58,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +13.40% +14.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 388 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.05% 21.33% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 181 168 458
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £30,068
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -0.62%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing WLAN

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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 WLAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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 -13 4 £33,000 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £38,500 -
WLAN
England

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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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) IT Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (80.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow