Wireless Job Trends in Portsmouth

Wireless
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 35
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +32
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 14 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 4.07% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 45.16% 5.56% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -31.82% -
75th Percentile - £38,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £36,750
% change year-on-year -16.67% +46.94% -33.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 31 36 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 9.01% 11.80% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 29 17
10th Percentile £28,700 £26,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,236 £37,500 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% -30.74% +8.29%
75th Percentile £48,000 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,656
Hampshire median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +5.26%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Wireless
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Wireless

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GNU Octave
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Embedded Engineer
1 13 (92.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 13 (92.86%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Graduate
2 1 (7.14%) Graduate Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Graduate Systems Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) e-Learning
1 13 (92.86%) Embedded Systems
1 13 (92.86%) MicroBlaze
1 13 (92.86%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Embedded Linux
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 14 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 14 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.14%) Mathematics
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Physics
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) TestOps
3 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C
1 13 (92.86%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) MATLAB
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Embedded Firmware
1 13 (92.86%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) ANSYS
1 1 (7.14%) Keysight
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft