Wireless Job Trends in Lancashire

Wireless
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 63 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 -28 +40
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 8 13 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.69% 1.64% 2.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.20% 13.54% 22.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £52,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,750 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.27% -15.38% +48.57%
75th Percentile £38,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £46,850 £73,500 -
North West median annual salary £30,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -45.45% - +26.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 666 96 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 57.56% 12.09% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 85 66 51
10th Percentile £13,380 £32,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £41,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £65,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £30,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -31.67% -5.26% +5.56%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Wireless
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Lancashire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in Lancashire

Wireless
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Blackburn - 4 £27,500 -
Skelmersdale - 3 £36,000 -
Wireless
North West

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) VLAN
2 4 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) SAN
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) IT Support
2 4 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (50.00%) IT Technician
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Support Technician
3 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior IT Support
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Apple
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) EMC