Wireless Job Trends in Scotland

Wireless
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 114 116
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 25 35 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.59% 1.34% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.48% 12.32% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 31
10th Percentile £32,750 - £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +46.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 386 284 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.16% 10.87% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 154 158 159
10th Percentile £26,150 - £30,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,750 £30,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -42.86% +87.50%
75th Percentile £59,688 £38,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £39,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +28.21% -25.71% +1.94%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Glasgow +20 12 £52,750 - 6
Aberdeen - 9 £60,000 - 9
Edinburgh -13 4 £47,500 -6.86% 15
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) VPN
1 6 (24.00%) WAN
2 5 (20.00%) BGP
2 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) LAN
2 5 (20.00%) OSPF
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (16.00%) EIGRP
3 4 (16.00%) MPLS
3 4 (16.00%) Network Security
4 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.00%) BIG-IP
5 1 (4.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.00%) Multicast
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Electronics
2 8 (32.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) CAD Technician
3 3 (12.00%) Junior
4 2 (8.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Test Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) IoT
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 3 (12.00%) CAD
3 3 (12.00%) Design for Test
3 3 (12.00%) High Availability
3 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (12.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (12.00%) Schematic Capture
3 3 (12.00%) Validation
3 3 (12.00%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (8.00%) Design for Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Migration
4 2 (8.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (4.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.00%) Signal Processing
5 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) CCNP
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CCIE
4 1 (4.00%) HNC
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) JTAG
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco
2 4 (16.00%) Aruba
2 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (16.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (12.00%) EMC
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) Arista
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) F5
5 1 (4.00%) Meraki
5 1 (4.00%) VMware