Wireless Jobs in England

Wireless
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 195 88
Rank change year-on-year +42 -107 +205
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,074 1,279 3,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.19% 1.43% 3.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.19% 10.54% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 255 1,001 666
10th Percentile £26,850 £25,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,599 £30,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,479 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £49,875 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.26% +3.33% -10.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,810 12,136 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 13.56% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 8,540 7,030
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,813 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in England

Wireless
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless in England.

Salary trend for Wireless in England

Wireless
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireless in England

Wireless
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
East of England +67 337 £45,000 -25.00% 151
South East +53 296 £40,000 +6.67% 308
Midlands +115 212 £46,000 +2.22% 183
East Midlands +124 191 £50,000 +31.58% 74
North of England -52 102 £32,500 -18.75% 198
London -78 91 £62,500 +19.05% 148
Yorkshire +19 52 £30,000 -14.29% 76
North West -81 44 £67,500 +62.65% 97
South West +15 26 £36,500 -2.67% 123
West Midlands -16 21 £42,000 -23.64% 95
North East +40 6 £33,198 -14.88% 25
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.68%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.093%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Carpe Diem
1 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (8.75%) Azure
2 88 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (2.89%) Entra ID
4 25 (2.33%) AWS
5 13 (1.21%) OneDrive
6 10 (0.93%) Google Workspace
7 6 (0.56%) Azure Storage
7 6 (0.56%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.37%) IaaS
8 4 (0.37%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.28%) GCP
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.19%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.19%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.19%) SaaS
10 2 (0.19%) Serverless
11 1 (0.093%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.093%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.093%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 767 (71.42%) Wi-Fi
2 745 (69.37%) Bluetooth
3 736 (68.53%) LTE
4 732 (68.16%) GSM
5 731 (68.06%) 5G
6 730 (67.97%) UMTS
7 134 (12.48%) LAN
8 120 (11.17%) WAN
9 82 (7.64%) Firewall
10 51 (4.75%) VPN
11 47 (4.38%) DHCP
12 45 (4.19%) DNS
13 41 (3.82%) TCP/IP
14 37 (3.45%) Internet
15 36 (3.35%) VLAN
16 35 (3.26%) BGP
17 34 (3.17%) Network Security
17 34 (3.17%) OSPF
17 34 (3.17%) SD-WAN
17 34 (3.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.19%) EDMS
2 2 (0.19%) Power BI
3 1 (0.093%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Git
2 7 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.47%) KGDB
4 4 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.28%) JIRA
5 3 (0.28%) Subversion
6 2 (0.19%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.19%) GDB
7 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.093%) CMake
General
1 751 (69.93%) Electronics
2 78 (7.26%) Social Skills
3 47 (4.38%) Finance
4 40 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 17 (1.58%) Law
8 14 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 8 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.56%) Legal
11 6 (0.56%) Public Sector
11 6 (0.56%) Retail
12 5 (0.47%) Automotive
13 4 (0.37%) Marketing
13 4 (0.37%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.28%) Billing
14 3 (0.28%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.28%) Wearables
15 2 (0.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 733 (68.25%) Electronics Engineer
2 730 (67.97%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 730 (67.97%) Test Engineer
3 61 (5.68%) Network Engineer
4 56 (5.21%) Senior
5 37 (3.45%) Software Engineer
6 34 (3.17%) Analyst
7 30 (2.79%) Embedded Engineer
7 30 (2.79%) IT Support
8 26 (2.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 22 (2.05%) Consultant
9 22 (2.05%) Support Engineer
10 21 (1.96%) Network Consultant
11 20 (1.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (1.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 18 (1.68%) Collaboration Specialist
12 18 (1.68%) Infrastructure Support
12 18 (1.68%) Network Support
13 17 (1.58%) Senior Consultant
13 17 (1.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.68%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.28%) Middleware
3 2 (0.19%) HTML
3 2 (0.19%) HTML5
3 2 (0.19%) JSON
3 2 (0.19%) React
3 2 (0.19%) Redux
4 1 (0.093%) Bazel
4 1 (0.093%) REST
4 1 (0.093%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 745 (69.37%) Driving Licence
2 36 (3.35%) Embedded Systems
3 23 (2.14%) Digital Signage
4 22 (2.05%) Virtual Team
5 20 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
6 17 (1.58%) e-Learning
6 17 (1.58%) MicroBlaze
6 17 (1.58%) RISC-V
7 15 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.40%) IoT
8 14 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 8 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.65%) iPhone
12 6 (0.56%) CCTV
12 6 (0.56%) Device Driver
12 6 (0.56%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.47%) Blackberry
13 5 (0.47%) Mobile Computing
14 4 (0.37%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 118 (10.99%) Windows
2 55 (5.12%) Windows Server
3 50 (4.66%) Linux
4 36 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.68%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.58%) Embedded Linux
7 15 (1.40%) Mac OS X
8 14 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.93%) Android
10 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.56%) VMS
12 4 (0.37%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.093%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (69.55%) Mentoring
2 736 (68.53%) Validation
3 734 (68.34%) Coaching
4 732 (68.16%) Customer Requirements
5 731 (68.06%) Verification and Validation
6 730 (67.97%) Test Strategy
7 62 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (4.84%) ITIL
9 43 (4.00%) Software Engineering
10 42 (3.91%) Customer Service
11 39 (3.63%) Service Delivery
12 36 (3.35%) Project Management
13 28 (2.61%) Agile
14 26 (2.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (2.14%) Change Management
15 23 (2.14%) Signal Processing
16 22 (2.05%) Digital Signal Processing
16 22 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 21 (1.96%) Project Delivery
18 20 (1.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 42 (3.91%) C
2 33 (3.07%) C++
3 29 (2.70%) Python
4 26 (2.42%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.96%) SQL
6 5 (0.47%) Embedded C
7 3 (0.28%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.19%) Java
8 2 (0.19%) Progress 4GL
8 2 (0.19%) R
9 1 (0.093%) Bash
9 1 (0.093%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.093%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.093%) Rust
9 1 (0.093%) Scala
Qualifications
1 794 (73.93%) Degree
2 730 (67.97%) HND
3 78 (7.26%) Cisco Certification
4 63 (5.87%) CCNP
5 36 (3.35%) Security Cleared
6 32 (2.98%) CCNA
7 30 (2.79%) CCIE
7 30 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.42%) SC Cleared
9 20 (1.86%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.58%) MBA
11 11 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.02%) MCSA
12 8 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.47%) JNCIA
15 4 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.96%) SLA
2 6 (0.56%) GDPR
3 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.28%) NIST
4 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.19%) QA
5 1 (0.093%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.093%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.093%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.093%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.093%) PMO
System Software
1 88 (8.19%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.35%) Firmware
3 24 (2.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.47%) vSphere
6 5 (0.47%) XenApp
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.093%) Docker
9 1 (0.093%) Forefront TMG
9 1 (0.093%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.093%) KVM
9 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.12%) FortiGate
3 9 (0.84%) WSUS
4 7 (0.65%) Ansible
4 7 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.47%) AirWatch
6 5 (0.47%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.47%) SCCM
6 5 (0.47%) Terraform
7 3 (0.28%) Autotask
8 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.093%) CASB
9 1 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.093%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.093%) Nagios
9 1 (0.093%) Puppet
Vendors
1 121 (11.27%) Cisco
2 108 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 41 (3.82%) Meraki
4 32 (2.98%) VMware
5 25 (2.33%) Apple
6 20 (1.86%) Juniper
7 18 (1.68%) Mitel
7 18 (1.68%) Palo Alto
7 18 (1.68%) Polycom
7 18 (1.68%) ShoreTel
8 17 (1.58%) Fortinet
8 17 (1.58%) Unisys
9 14 (1.30%) Aruba
9 14 (1.30%) HP
9 14 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.21%) Google
11 11 (1.02%) F5
11 11 (1.02%) Ubiquiti
12 10 (0.93%) CheckPoint
12 10 (0.93%) iManage