Wireless Job Trends in the South West

Wireless
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 123 181
Rank change year-on-year -47 +58 -105
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 75 46 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.72% 1.30% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.06% 8.00% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 54 26 29
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £19,400
25th Percentile £33,500 £27,688 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £38,026 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -15.50% +5.88%
75th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £48,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.48% +10.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 678 575 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.52% 16.22% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 372 360 460
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,568 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £34,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -31.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,075 £81,375
England median annual salary £49,250 £40,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.60% -19.00% -4.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the South West

Wireless
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the South West over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the South West

Wireless
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Gloucestershire - 31 £65,000 - 11
Bristol -37 14 £50,000 +17.65% 12
Somerset -23 12 £34,000 -5.69% 9
Wiltshire -16 10 £46,000 +12.20% 14
Devon -26 4 £26,000 -42.22% 1
Dorset -18 2 £57,500 +107.21% 3
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (13.33%) AWS
3 8 (10.67%) Azure
3 8 (10.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.33%) GCP
4 1 (1.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.00%) VPN
2 11 (14.67%) DNS
2 11 (14.67%) Firewall
2 11 (14.67%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (13.33%) VLAN
3 10 (13.33%) WAN
4 9 (12.00%) BGP
4 9 (12.00%) Bluetooth
4 9 (12.00%) LAN
4 9 (12.00%) OSPF
5 8 (10.67%) SD-WAN
6 7 (9.33%) DHCP
6 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
6 7 (9.33%) WLAN
7 5 (6.67%) Network Security
8 4 (5.33%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (4.00%) EIGRP
10 2 (2.67%) Broadband
10 2 (2.67%) VoIP
10 2 (2.67%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.67%) Maven
1 2 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 8 (10.67%) Electronics
4 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Finance
4 6 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.33%) Advertising
5 4 (5.33%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Aviation
8 1 (1.33%) Avionics
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) Support Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) IT Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) IT Support
3 12 (16.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Technical Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Technical Support
4 11 (14.67%) Technical Support Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Radio Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) RF Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) RF Test Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Business Development Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Business Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Development Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Field Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Driving Licence
1 10 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 8 (10.67%) IoT
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.33%) CMDB
4 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.67%) PMI
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Apple TV
7 1 (1.33%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.33%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.33%) PKI
7 1 (1.33%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Mac OS
2 8 (10.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (16.00%) Customer Service
5 11 (14.67%) Project Delivery
5 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
6 10 (13.33%) Signal Processing
7 9 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
9 7 (9.33%) Decision-Making
9 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (8.00%) Change Management
10 6 (8.00%) Cloud Security
10 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (6.67%) Business Continuity
11 5 (6.67%) Business Development
11 5 (6.67%) CRM
11 5 (6.67%) ITIL
11 5 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (2.67%) C
3 1 (1.33%) C++
3 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) CCNP
2 6 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) HNC
5 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CCNA
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.33%) JTAG
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.67%) Firmware
3 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) KVM
4 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Ansible
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Cisco
3 8 (10.67%) Fortinet
4 7 (9.33%) Meraki
5 5 (6.67%) Aruba
5 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.33%) Adobe
6 4 (5.33%) Avaya
6 4 (5.33%) F5
6 4 (5.33%) Infoblox
6 4 (5.33%) Netskope
6 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.00%) Juniper
8 2 (2.67%) Apple
8 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.33%) Arista
9 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.33%) VMware
9 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard
9 1 (1.33%) Yahoo!