WLAN Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 51 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +56
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 5 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.15% 0.20% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.87% 1.92% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £50,250 - £32,250
25th Percentile £56,250 - £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £36,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £59,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - £60,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £63,264 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.01% +33.19% -4.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 46 52 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.62% 10.53% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27 13 58
10th Percentile £31,425 - £31,425
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,500 £34,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,154 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.38% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £71,703 £74,144 £69,800
UK median annual salary £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -4.76%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

WLAN job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

WLAN
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing WLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing WLAN

WLAN
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. 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
County Antrim - 5 £57,500 - 3
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (100.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (40.00%) SNA
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Control
1 5 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (60.00%) Network Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Aruba