WPA Job Trends in Manchester

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring WPA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 148 211
Rank change year-on-year -14 +63 -
Permanent jobs citing WPA 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.038% 0.047% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.47% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 - £36,000
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £47,400
North West median annual salary £43,000 - £36,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

WPA 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 661 211 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.56% 9.98% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 192 132 447
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,625 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £76,250
North West median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -5.26%

WPA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

WPA job vacancy trend in Manchester

WPA
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WPA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WPA

WPA
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Mimecast
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Netskope
1 2 (100.00%) VMware