WLAN Job Trends in Manchester

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 143 168
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +76
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 1 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.028% 0.17% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 1.61% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £47,750
25th Percentile £51,250 - £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £52,500 £82,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% +37.50% +26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

WLAN 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 637 248 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.60% 10.27% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 174 151 344
10th Percentile £27,375 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,750 £35,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,385 £82,500 £77,715
North West median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.78% - -2.17%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Manchester

WLAN
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WLAN

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto