Wireless Job Trends in Edinburgh

Wireless
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 94 98
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +44
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 32 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.05% 0.53% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.99% 5.61% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile - £27,875 £34,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £32,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -2.50% -24.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,813 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,650 £66,250 £67,750
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £37,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +36.00% -24.98% +17.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 97 107 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.24% 9.44% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 59 49 106
10th Percentile £26,337 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £25,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £48,507 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.12% +21.27% -29.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £74,144 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,790 £87,000 £72,433
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Wireless
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Wireless

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) Firewall
1 21 (65.63%) LAN
2 20 (62.50%) WAN
3 16 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 16 (50.00%) Wireshark
4 11 (34.38%) Bluetooth
4 11 (34.38%) RS-232
5 4 (12.50%) BGP
5 4 (12.50%) MPLS
6 3 (9.38%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (3.13%) Network Security
7 1 (3.13%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 21 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 11 (34.38%) Electronics
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Network Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Embedded Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Network Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Network Support
3 4 (12.50%) Network Support Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Lead
4 1 (3.13%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 19 (59.38%) Data Centre
2 16 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Load Balancing
2 16 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 16 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 16 (50.00%) Change Management
2 16 (50.00%) Coaching
2 16 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 16 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 16 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 16 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Observability
4 4 (12.50%) People Management
4 4 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) C
1 11 (34.38%) C++
2 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) CCIE
1 1 (3.13%) CCNP
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) JNCIP
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Firmware
2 2 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
1 4 (12.50%) Grafana
1 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) SolarWinds
2 17 (53.13%) CheckPoint
2 17 (53.13%) Palo Alto
3 16 (50.00%) Cisco
3 16 (50.00%) Meraki
4 5 (15.63%) F5
5 4 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.50%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks