Wireless Job Trends in the East of England

Wireless
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 14 88
Rank change year-on-year -101 +74 -69
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 90 355 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.15% 10.44% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.05% 51.90% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 75 43 66
10th Percentile £31,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% -13.33% +52.15%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,400 £75,500 £76,875
England median annual salary £49,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.47% -15.00% +8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 598 684 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.67% 20.12% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 418 265 388
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,000 £28,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,396
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the East of England

Wireless
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the East of England

Wireless
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Cambridgeshire -19 33 £55,000 -4.35% 24
Hertfordshire -40 29 £40,000 +23.08% 12
Essex -18 13 £35,000 -22.22% 11
Norfolk - 7 £65,000 - 1
Bedfordshire -41 6 £34,000 -15.00% 1
Suffolk +15 5 - - 8
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (18.89%) Azure
3 9 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.33%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (27.78%) Firewall
2 15 (16.67%) VPN
3 12 (13.33%) DHCP
3 12 (13.33%) DNS
3 12 (13.33%) LAN
4 11 (12.22%) Bluetooth
4 11 (12.22%) TCP/IP
5 10 (11.11%) WAN
5 10 (11.11%) ZigBee
6 9 (10.00%) Modbus
6 9 (10.00%) Profibus
6 9 (10.00%) RS-232
6 9 (10.00%) RS-485
6 9 (10.00%) VLAN
7 7 (7.78%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (3.33%) Broadband
8 3 (3.33%) IPv6
8 3 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (2.22%) LTE
9 2 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.11%) Git
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
1 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Manufacturing
2 13 (14.44%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Electronics
4 9 (10.00%) Finance
4 9 (10.00%) Retail
5 5 (5.56%) Marketing
6 4 (4.44%) Legal
6 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Support Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) Radio Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) IT Support
5 9 (10.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Sales Executive
8 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
8 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Sales Support
9 4 (4.44%) Service Owner
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.33%) Driving Licence
2 11 (12.22%) CCTV
3 10 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.33%) FMCG
7 3 (3.33%) IoT
8 2 (2.22%) Clustering
8 2 (2.22%) Home Automation
8 2 (2.22%) Smart Home
9 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.11%) Device Driver
9 1 (1.11%) FPGA
9 1 (1.11%) NB-IoT
9 1 (1.11%) Verilog
9 1 (1.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.22%) Windows
2 13 (14.44%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.11%) FreeRTOS
3 10 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.33%) Android
7 2 (2.22%) Linux
8 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.11%) ThreadX
8 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.11%) Customer Service
2 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
5 11 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (11.11%) CRM
7 9 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (10.00%) TDD
7 9 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 8 (8.89%) Migration
8 8 (8.89%) Presales
9 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (6.67%) Client Onboarding
10 6 (6.67%) Data Migration
10 6 (6.67%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.67%) Telesales
11 5 (5.56%) Computer Science
11 5 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (4.44%) Service Delivery
12 4 (4.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.22%) C
2 10 (11.11%) C++
2 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.33%) VB
4 1 (1.11%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) CCNA
1 10 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
2 9 (10.00%) CCNP
3 6 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.33%) HP APS
5 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CCIE
6 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.56%) Firmware
3 10 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.22%) vSphere
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (34.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) Cisco
3 8 (8.89%) Ubiquiti
4 7 (7.78%) VMware
5 6 (6.67%) Apple
6 5 (5.56%) Meraki
7 4 (4.44%) HubSpot
7 4 (4.44%) Juniper
7 4 (4.44%) Ruckus Wireless
7 4 (4.44%) Sage
7 4 (4.44%) Veeam
8 3 (3.33%) Aruba
8 3 (3.33%) Draytek
8 3 (3.33%) Google
8 3 (3.33%) HP
8 3 (3.33%) Samsung
9 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.22%) Huawei
9 2 (2.22%) MikroTik
9 2 (2.22%) Sophos