Wireless Job Trends in the North East

Wireless
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East 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 64 74 57
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +26
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 14 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.36% 1.61% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.02% 15.46% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 16
10th Percentile - - £34,375
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £80,000 £39,005
Median % change year-on-year -63.75% +105.10% +4.01%
75th Percentile £29,500 £82,500 £45,156
90th Percentile - £84,750 £89,375
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -2.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 127 97 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.33% 10.43% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 107 50 135
10th Percentile £21,620 £35,250 £28,163
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £33,250 £67,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £74,730 £81,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the North East

Wireless
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Wireless

Wireless
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +3 10 £29,000 -63.75% 8
Durham - 4 - - 1
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 13 (92.86%) VLAN
3 9 (64.29%) TCP/IP
4 5 (35.71%) BGP
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (35.71%) LAN
4 5 (35.71%) OSPF
4 5 (35.71%) VPN
5 4 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (28.57%) EIGRP
5 4 (28.57%) Network Security
5 4 (28.57%) SNMP
5 4 (28.57%) WAAS
5 4 (28.57%) WAN
5 4 (28.57%) Wireless Security
6 1 (7.14%) IPsec
6 1 (7.14%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
6 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Support Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) Technical Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) Technical Support
1 9 (64.29%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (64.29%) Customer Service
2 9 (64.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (28.57%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CCNP
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) CCIE
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
1 9 (64.29%) Hyper-V
1 9 (64.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) ProxySG
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) FortiGate
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (71.43%) VMware
3 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (64.29%) SonicWALL
3 9 (64.29%) Veeam
3 9 (64.29%) WatchGuard
4 4 (28.57%) Blue Coat
4 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 4 (28.57%) F5
4 4 (28.57%) Infoblox
4 4 (28.57%) Motorola
4 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto