Wi-Fi Job Trends in England

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 205 215
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +169
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 619 676 912
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.05% 1.51% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.84% 10.96% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 416 276 791
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,313 £24,807
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,340 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.32% +17.65% +0.59%
75th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -24.73% +9.41% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,055 6,167 9,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.40% 13.75% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,514 3,298 7,523
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £55,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% +10.02% -3.87%
75th Percentile £64,938 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in England

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Wi-Fi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Wi-Fi in England

Wi-Fi
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
London +99 209 £45,000 -30.77% 43
South East -22 102 £33,500 -25.56% 60
North of England +14 94 £30,500 -26.06% 38
South West +49 89 £32,000 -45.53% 26
Midlands -45 70 £47,000 -6.00% 33
North West +6 47 £30,000 -26.83% 24
West Midlands -1 47 £37,500 -25.00% 23
East of England -54 41 £35,340 -11.65% 27
Yorkshire -17 37 £33,500 -25.31% 12
East Midlands -60 22 £54,000 +13.68% 10
North East +1 10 £48,445 - 4
Wi-Fi
UK

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 85 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (10.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.32%) IIS
3 2 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 59 (9.53%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 230 (37.16%) Microsoft 365
2 208 (33.60%) Azure
3 80 (12.92%) AWS
4 79 (12.76%) Entra ID
5 31 (5.01%) OneDrive
6 27 (4.36%) Google Workspace
7 26 (4.20%) SaaS
8 15 (2.42%) IaaS
8 15 (2.42%) OCI
9 14 (2.26%) PaaS
10 12 (1.94%) AWS Direct Connect
11 10 (1.62%) Datadog
12 8 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.13%) GCP
14 4 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.65%) Mimecast
14 4 (0.65%) Slack
15 3 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 202 (32.63%) WAN
2 192 (31.02%) LAN
3 189 (30.53%) Firewall
4 178 (28.76%) VPN
5 169 (27.30%) DNS
6 154 (24.88%) DHCP
7 124 (20.03%) VLAN
8 84 (13.57%) TCP/IP
9 74 (11.95%) VoIP
10 67 (10.82%) Structured Cabling
11 56 (9.05%) Wireless
12 54 (8.72%) SD-WAN
13 41 (6.62%) Wireshark
14 38 (6.14%) Network Security
15 35 (5.65%) Broadband
15 35 (5.65%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (5.49%) BGP
16 34 (5.49%) OSPF
17 32 (5.17%) IPsec
18 29 (4.68%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.13%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.81%) FileMaker
4 5 (0.81%) MySQL
5 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.32%) Metadata
5 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.32%) Power BI
6 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Chocolatey
1 10 (1.62%) JIRA
2 7 (1.13%) Git
3 4 (0.65%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.65%) Subversion
4 2 (0.32%) GitLab
4 2 (0.32%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.32%) MLflow
4 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 185 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 79 (12.76%) Telecoms
3 61 (9.85%) Finance
4 59 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 32 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 29 (4.68%) Marketing
9 28 (4.52%) Legal
9 28 (4.52%) Retail
10 18 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.58%) Banking
11 16 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.29%) Billing
13 8 (1.29%) Electronics
14 6 (0.97%) Advertising
14 6 (0.97%) Law
15 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 119 (19.22%) IT Support
2 98 (15.83%) Senior
3 87 (14.05%) IT Engineer
4 83 (13.41%) Support Engineer
5 69 (11.15%) Network Engineer
6 63 (10.18%) 2nd Line Support
7 53 (8.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 48 (7.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 45 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 44 (7.11%) Cabling Engineer
10 44 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (6.95%) Data Engineer
12 41 (6.62%) Support Technician
13 35 (5.65%) Field Engineer
14 31 (5.01%) IT Technician
14 31 (5.01%) Support Specialist
15 30 (4.85%) Field Service Engineer
16 29 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
16 29 (4.68%) IT Support Technician
17 28 (4.52%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.32%) 802.1X
1 2 (0.32%) FastAPI
1 2 (0.32%) Kafka
1 2 (0.32%) Keycloak
1 2 (0.32%) REST
1 2 (0.32%) WebRTC
2 1 (0.16%) .NET
2 1 (0.16%) LDAP
2 1 (0.16%) NumPy
2 1 (0.16%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.16%) SciPy
2 1 (0.16%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 107 (17.29%) Driving Licence
2 83 (13.41%) Data Centre
3 69 (11.15%) Onboarding
4 45 (7.27%) EPoS
5 23 (3.72%) Mobile App
6 21 (3.39%) CCTV
6 21 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.07%) iPhone
8 18 (2.91%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.75%) Social Media
10 15 (2.42%) PKI
11 14 (2.26%) Fibre Optics
11 14 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (2.10%) iPad
12 13 (2.10%) Web Conferencing
13 11 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (1.45%) Security Posture
16 7 (1.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 239 (38.61%) Windows
2 98 (15.83%) Windows Server
3 71 (11.47%) Mac OS
4 68 (10.99%) Windows 10
5 34 (5.49%) Apple iOS
6 31 (5.01%) Android
7 29 (4.68%) Linux
8 20 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (3.07%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.81%) Unix
12 3 (0.48%) Debian
12 3 (0.48%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.16%) VMS
13 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (32.15%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (20.68%) Customer Service
3 81 (13.09%) ITIL
4 71 (11.47%) ITSM
4 71 (11.47%) Mentoring
5 57 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (8.08%) Service Delivery
9 49 (7.92%) Computer Science
10 46 (7.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (7.27%) Coaching
12 37 (5.98%) Process Improvement
13 36 (5.82%) Network Monitoring
13 36 (5.82%) Project Management
14 34 (5.49%) Migration
15 32 (5.17%) Decision-Making
16 31 (5.01%) Mobile Device Management
17 29 (4.68%) Zero Trust
18 28 (4.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (8.08%) Python
2 44 (7.11%) PowerShell
3 13 (2.10%) SQL
4 11 (1.78%) C
5 8 (1.29%) C++
6 5 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.65%) Embedded C
7 4 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (0.48%) PHP
9 2 (0.32%) Delphi
9 2 (0.32%) Pascal
10 1 (0.16%) Bash
10 1 (0.16%) Bicep
10 1 (0.16%) C#
Qualifications
1 87 (14.05%) Degree
2 84 (13.57%) Security Cleared
3 67 (10.82%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (8.89%) CCNP
5 54 (8.72%) SC Cleared
6 43 (6.95%) CCNA
7 33 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 25 (4.04%) CCIE
9 23 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.58%) CCSA
10 16 (2.58%) CCSE
11 13 (2.10%) HND
11 13 (2.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 12 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.78%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.45%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.45%) Master's Degree
15 8 (1.29%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.36%) SLA
2 21 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (2.26%) GDPR
4 9 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (1.45%) NIST
5 5 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.81%) QA
6 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.32%) PMO
8 1 (0.16%) GxP
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 207 (33.44%) Active Directory
2 59 (9.53%) Hyper-V
3 52 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.55%) Firmware
5 11 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.62%) vSphere
7 7 (1.13%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.65%) Docker
9 3 (0.48%) KVM
9 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.32%) NFS
10 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (12.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (5.82%) Terraform
3 35 (5.65%) SCCM
4 30 (4.85%) Ansible
5 29 (4.68%) Jamf Pro
6 23 (3.72%) FortiGate
7 15 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (2.26%) Kubernetes
9 12 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.29%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.81%) Autotask
12 4 (0.65%) CASB
13 3 (0.48%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.32%) Argo
14 2 (0.32%) Grafana
14 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
15 1 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
15 1 (0.16%) SCOM
15 1 (0.16%) VxRail
15 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 260 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 124 (20.03%) Cisco
3 83 (13.41%) VMware
4 68 (10.99%) Meraki
5 42 (6.79%) Fortinet
6 37 (5.98%) Apple
7 32 (5.17%) CheckPoint
8 31 (5.01%) Google
9 30 (4.85%) Palo Alto
10 26 (4.20%) SolarWinds
11 25 (4.04%) ServiceNow
12 24 (3.88%) Aruba
13 21 (3.39%) Salesforce
14 20 (3.23%) Dynatrace
14 20 (3.23%) Juniper
15 17 (2.75%) Arista
16 15 (2.42%) NetScout
16 15 (2.42%) Ruckus Wireless
17 10 (1.62%) AppDynamics
17 10 (1.62%) Veeam