WLAN Job Trends in the North West

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 182 235
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 +60
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 2 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.024% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 1.27% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile £37,075 - £45,000
25th Percentile £39,438 - £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £49,438 - £63,438
90th Percentile £52,025 - £63,750
England median annual salary £61,000 £64,600 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.57% +33.20% +7.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,970 472 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.91% 12.06% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 385 352 802
10th Percentile £25,875 £25,761 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £42,039 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.68% +9.28% -4.98%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in the North West

WLAN
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WLAN

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the North West over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the North West

WLAN
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
Manchester +4 2 £44,250 - 6
WLAN
England

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) NGN
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto