Wireless Jobs in Scotland

Wireless
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 185 75
Rank change year-on-year +36 -110 +26
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 14 105 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.48% 1.57% 3.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.09% 16.03% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 96 42
10th Percentile - £27,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £27,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +12.08%
75th Percentile £72,188 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%

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 342 655 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.62% 9.77% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 195 399 269
10th Percentile - £28,000 £25,984
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £70,000 £82,811
UK median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -4.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Scotland.

Salary trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 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
Glasgow +180 5 £80,000 +39.13% 7
Edinburgh -13 4 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Dundee +13 1 £82,500 +117.11% 2
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) OneDrive
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 4 (28.57%) IPsec
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) SSL
2 4 (28.57%) VLAN
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (21.43%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) BGP
4 2 (14.29%) Bluetooth
4 2 (14.29%) OSPF
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (14.29%) ZigBee
5 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
5 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (7.14%) MPLS
5 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.14%) VoIP
General
1 4 (28.57%) Wearables
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (28.57%) IT Technician
2 4 (28.57%) Senior IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) Senior IT Technician
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Support Technician
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Technician
2 4 (28.57%) Support Technician
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Replication
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (14.29%) GNSS
3 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (14.29%) IoT
3 2 (14.29%) Legacy Code
3 2 (14.29%) Smart Energy
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (14.29%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Budget Management
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) ITSM
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (7.14%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Assembly Language
2 2 (14.29%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) Embedded C
2 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CCNP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (14.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (14.29%) IEC 62304
2 2 (14.29%) MISRA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) Firmware
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Aruba
3 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Riverbed
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) VMware