WLAN Jobs in the Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 311 299
Rank change year-on-year +70 -12 -47
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 74 21 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.63% 1.22% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 62 7 50
10th Percentile £41,250 £22,350 £24,000
25th Percentile £41,563 £29,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £37,108 £36,483
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% +1.71% +12.26%
75th Percentile £50,250 £44,150 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,750 £51,500 £53,750
England median annual salary £48,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.12% - +11.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

WLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,597 1,721 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.64% 18.10% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 731 1,091
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the Midlands

WLAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the Midlands.

Salary trend for WLAN in the Midlands

WLAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the Midlands

WLAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +74 66 £48,500 +65.81% 8
East Midlands -17 8 £47,500 +28.00% 1
WLAN
England

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.68%) Azure
2 12 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.41%) AWS
4 3 (4.05%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.70%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 73 (98.65%) LAN
2 63 (85.14%) WAN
3 51 (68.92%) SD-WAN
4 40 (54.05%) MPLS
5 35 (47.30%) BGP
5 35 (47.30%) OSPF
6 18 (24.32%) Firewall
7 13 (17.57%) VPN
8 12 (16.22%) TCP/IP
9 11 (14.86%) VoIP
10 9 (12.16%) SAN
10 9 (12.16%) VLAN
10 9 (12.16%) Wireless
11 7 (9.46%) DNS
11 7 (9.46%) EIGRP
11 7 (9.46%) HSRP
11 7 (9.46%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (9.46%) VRRP
11 7 (9.46%) Wireshark
12 6 (8.11%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) Power BI
General
1 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Retail
3 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.35%) Automotive
4 1 (1.35%) Law
4 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (59.46%) Analyst
1 44 (59.46%) Network Analyst
2 42 (56.76%) Network Operations Analyst
2 42 (56.76%) Operations Analyst
3 14 (18.92%) Network Engineer
4 13 (17.57%) Senior
5 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 9 (12.16%) 3rd Line Support
6 9 (12.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Support
6 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Support Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Network Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) FMCG
2 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.05%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 4 (5.41%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.70%) Android
4 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.70%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.70%) VMS
4 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.35%) Linux
5 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (13.51%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (12.16%) Network Architecture
3 9 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (10.81%) Change Management
4 8 (10.81%) Computer Science
4 8 (10.81%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (9.46%) Business Analysis
5 7 (9.46%) Demand Management
5 7 (9.46%) High Availability
5 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.46%) Project Delivery
5 7 (9.46%) Release Management
6 6 (8.11%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (6.76%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (6.76%) Change Control
7 5 (6.76%) ITIL
8 4 (5.41%) Project Management
9 3 (4.05%) Analytics
10 2 (2.70%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (66.22%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (59.46%) CCNP
3 37 (50.00%) CCNA
4 35 (47.30%) CCIE
5 33 (44.59%) CCDP
6 8 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (10.81%) Degree
7 7 (9.46%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 5 (6.76%) JNCIA
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (4.05%) MCSE
10 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.70%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (2.70%) MCSA
12 1 (1.35%) CWNA
12 1 (1.35%) HNC
12 1 (1.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.70%) GDPR
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.46%) Firmware
3 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.05%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (35.14%) Cisco
2 16 (21.62%) VMware
3 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
4 11 (14.86%) Juniper
4 11 (14.86%) Sophos
5 9 (12.16%) Citrix
5 9 (12.16%) HP
5 9 (12.16%) Veeam
6 8 (10.81%) Ekahau
7 6 (8.11%) Meraki
8 5 (6.76%) Google
9 4 (5.41%) Palo Alto
10 3 (4.05%) Apple
11 2 (2.70%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.70%) Snow
11 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.35%) MikroTik
12 1 (1.35%) Ubiquiti
12 1 (1.35%) Zscaler