Wireless Job Trends in England

Wireless
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 180 158
Rank change year-on-year -101 -22 +166
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 391 789 949
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 1.64% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.42% 12.13% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 286 320 689
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,475 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,563 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £62,618
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £45,075
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.02% -2.01%

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 8,850 6,507 6,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.75% 13.52% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,443 3,411 5,563
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,400 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in England

Wireless
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
South East -6 142 £40,000 -15.79% 86
London -9 101 £67,500 -15.63% 60
North of England -49 42 £29,000 -27.50% 67
Midlands -65 39 £52,500 -2.78% 43
East of England -57 38 £57,500 +4.55% 49
West Midlands -10 35 £57,500 +6.48% 23
South West 0 21 £38,526 -29.95% 48
North West -11 18 £30,000 -45.45% 34
North East +10 14 £29,000 -63.75% 10
Yorkshire -38 10 £28,000 -6.67% 25
East Midlands -69 4 £36,750 +20.73% 20
Wireless
UK

Wireless
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 35 (8.95%) SharePoint
2 29 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
4 5 (1.28%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.84%) MS Visio
3 13 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.26%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 128 (32.74%) Azure
2 98 (25.06%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (10.23%) Entra ID
4 34 (8.70%) AWS
5 14 (3.58%) OneDrive
6 7 (1.79%) Google Workspace
7 6 (1.53%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.53%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.53%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.53%) Serverless
8 5 (1.28%) Mimecast
8 5 (1.28%) SaaS
9 4 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.77%) GCP
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.51%) Dagster
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 152 (38.87%) Firewall
2 111 (28.39%) WAN
3 109 (27.88%) LAN
4 104 (26.60%) VPN
5 91 (23.27%) VLAN
6 73 (18.67%) DNS
7 70 (17.90%) DHCP
8 60 (15.35%) TCP/IP
9 51 (13.04%) SD-WAN
9 51 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (12.79%) OSPF
11 49 (12.53%) Network Security
12 48 (12.28%) BGP
13 38 (9.72%) VoIP
14 35 (8.95%) Cisco Wireless
14 35 (8.95%) EIGRP
15 30 (7.67%) Internet
16 29 (7.42%) Cisco Nexus
17 28 (7.16%) WLAN
18 25 (6.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.51%) Metadata
4 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.51%) MySQL
4 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.26%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 7 (1.79%) JIRA
2 6 (1.53%) Burp Suite
2 6 (1.53%) Metasploit
3 4 (1.02%) Git
3 4 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.51%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.51%) MLflow
5 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 135 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.02%) Finance
3 42 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.95%) Telecoms
5 31 (7.93%) Manufacturing
6 26 (6.65%) Electronics
7 16 (4.09%) Retail
8 15 (3.84%) Marketing
9 12 (3.07%) Automotive
10 11 (2.81%) Law
11 10 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.56%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.53%) Legal
13 5 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
14 4 (1.02%) Wearables
15 3 (0.77%) Advertising
15 3 (0.77%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (18.67%) Network Engineer
2 66 (16.88%) Support Engineer
3 60 (15.35%) IT Support
4 59 (15.09%) Senior
5 36 (9.21%) IT Engineer
6 35 (8.95%) Analyst
7 34 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
8 32 (8.18%) 2nd Line Support
8 32 (8.18%) Technical Support
9 29 (7.42%) Senior Network Engineer
10 28 (7.16%) IT Support Engineer
10 28 (7.16%) Technical Support Engineer
11 25 (6.39%) Software Engineer
11 25 (6.39%) Support Analyst
12 20 (5.12%) Consultant
13 18 (4.60%) 3rd Line Support
14 17 (4.35%) Cisco Consultant
14 17 (4.35%) Cisco Network Consultant
14 17 (4.35%) Lead
14 17 (4.35%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.07%) 802.1X
2 10 (2.56%) REST
3 2 (0.51%) FastAPI
3 2 (0.51%) Kafka
3 2 (0.51%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.51%) Web Services
3 2 (0.51%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.26%) MFC
4 1 (0.26%) NumPy
4 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.26%) SciPy
4 1 (0.26%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.02%) Data Centre
2 28 (7.16%) IoT
3 25 (6.39%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.37%) Driving Licence
4 21 (5.37%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.09%) e-Learning
6 14 (3.58%) Embedded Systems
6 14 (3.58%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.81%) MicroBlaze
7 11 (2.81%) RISC-V
7 11 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.79%) iPhone
10 7 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.53%) iPad
12 5 (1.28%) CCTV
12 5 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (23.02%) Windows
2 53 (13.55%) Windows Server
3 31 (7.93%) Linux
4 28 (7.16%) Apple iOS
5 21 (5.37%) Mac OS
6 17 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 16 (4.09%) Android
8 11 (2.81%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.02%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.97%) Customer Service
2 81 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (10.23%) ITIL
3 40 (10.23%) Mentoring
4 36 (9.21%) Change Management
5 35 (8.95%) Collaborative Working
6 34 (8.70%) Agile
7 33 (8.44%) Network Monitoring
8 32 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (8.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (7.42%) Load Balancing
10 28 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (7.16%) Project Delivery
11 27 (6.91%) Software Engineering
12 26 (6.65%) Migration
13 24 (6.14%) Kalman Filter
14 23 (5.88%) Coaching
15 22 (5.63%) Network Management
16 21 (5.37%) Computer Science
17 20 (5.12%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 48 (12.28%) Python
2 30 (7.67%) PowerShell
3 21 (5.37%) C++
4 12 (3.07%) C
5 5 (1.28%) Bash
6 3 (0.77%) SQL
7 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (20.97%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (17.90%) CCNP
3 47 (12.02%) Degree
4 32 (8.18%) Security Cleared
5 30 (7.67%) SC Cleared
6 22 (5.63%) CCIE
7 20 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (4.86%) CCNA
9 13 (3.32%) DBS Check
10 10 (2.56%) CHECK Team Member
10 10 (2.56%) CREST Certified
10 10 (2.56%) OSCP
11 9 (2.30%) CCSAM
11 9 (2.30%) CHECK Team Leader
12 5 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.02%) GCSC
13 4 (1.02%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.84%) SLA
2 14 (3.58%) PMO
3 8 (2.05%) GDPR
4 7 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.53%) QA
6 3 (0.77%) NIST
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (23.79%) Active Directory
2 48 (12.28%) Hyper-V
3 42 (10.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (4.35%) Firmware
6 12 (3.07%) ProxySG
7 11 (2.81%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (1.79%) Docker
8 7 (1.79%) vSphere
9 4 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.77%) KVM
11 2 (0.51%) NFS
12 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (13.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.39%) FortiGate
3 24 (6.14%) Ansible
4 9 (2.30%) Autotask
4 9 (2.30%) Terraform
5 7 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.79%) Nessus
6 4 (1.02%) SCCM
6 4 (1.02%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.77%) Grafana
8 2 (0.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.51%) VxRail
9 1 (0.26%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (0.26%) Nmap
Vendors
1 143 (36.57%) Microsoft
2 132 (33.76%) Cisco
3 64 (16.37%) Meraki
4 45 (11.51%) VMware
5 36 (9.21%) Palo Alto
6 34 (8.70%) Fortinet
6 34 (8.70%) SolarWinds
7 27 (6.91%) Aruba
7 27 (6.91%) CheckPoint
8 22 (5.63%) Apple
9 20 (5.12%) Veeam
10 19 (4.86%) F5
10 19 (4.86%) SonicWALL
11 15 (3.84%) Infoblox
12 14 (3.58%) Motorola
13 13 (3.32%) HP
13 13 (3.32%) ServiceNow
13 13 (3.32%) Sophos
14 12 (3.07%) Blue Coat
15 11 (2.81%) WatchGuard