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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 121 187
Rank change year-on-year -40 +66 -80
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 79 47 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.75% 1.32% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.74% 8.13% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 54 27 16
10th Percentile £27,825 £25,500 £25,384
25th Percentile £33,000 £27,875 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £36,051 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -31.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £70,000 £48,750 £69,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.93% +13.68%

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 673 578 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.38% 16.18% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 369 365 415
10th Percentile £26,620 £26,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £34,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -31.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,450 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

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 11 October 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 11 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
Gloucestershire - 33 £42,500 - 9
Bristol -35 17 £50,000 +17.65% 10
Wiltshire -16 11 £46,000 +21.05% 11
Somerset -18 10 £34,000 -5.69% 9
Devon -20 4 £26,000 -42.22% 2
Dorset -20 2 £57,500 +107.21% 4
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 9 (11.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (12.66%) AWS
2 10 (12.66%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.27%) GCP
3 1 (1.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) VPN
2 14 (17.72%) DNS
2 14 (17.72%) Firewall
3 12 (15.19%) WAN
4 11 (13.92%) LAN
4 11 (13.92%) VLAN
5 10 (12.66%) DHCP
6 9 (11.39%) BGP
6 9 (11.39%) OSPF
6 9 (11.39%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
8 7 (8.86%) Bluetooth
8 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
8 7 (8.86%) WLAN
9 5 (6.33%) Network Security
10 4 (5.06%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (3.80%) EIGRP
11 3 (3.80%) VoIP
12 2 (2.53%) Broadband
12 2 (2.53%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.53%) Maven
1 2 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.92%) Manufacturing
3 8 (10.13%) Electronics
4 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.06%) Advertising
5 4 (5.06%) Law
6 3 (3.80%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Retail
7 2 (2.53%) Aviation
7 2 (2.53%) Avionics
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Support Engineer
2 19 (24.05%) IT Engineer
3 14 (17.72%) IT Support
3 14 (17.72%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Network Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Embedded Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Technical Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Technical Support
5 8 (10.13%) Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Business Development Manager
6 5 (6.33%) Business Manager
6 5 (6.33%) Development Manager
6 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Radio Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) RF Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) RF Test Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) Driving Licence
2 10 (12.66%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.33%) IoT
4 5 (6.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (5.06%) CMDB
5 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.53%) PMI
6 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.27%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.27%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.27%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.27%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.32%) Windows
2 10 (12.66%) macOS
3 8 (10.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.59%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.06%) Linux
6 2 (2.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (21.52%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (18.99%) Customer Service
4 14 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (16.46%) Project Delivery
6 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
7 8 (10.13%) ITIL
7 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
7 8 (10.13%) Signal Processing
8 7 (8.86%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.86%) Validation
9 6 (7.59%) Business Development
9 6 (7.59%) Change Management
9 6 (7.59%) Cloud Security
9 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.59%) ITSM
10 5 (6.33%) Business Continuity
10 5 (6.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.66%) Python
2 4 (5.06%) C
3 3 (3.80%) C++
3 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) CCNP
2 6 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) HNC
5 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.80%) NCSC
3 3 (3.80%) SLA
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.27%) JTAG
System Software
1 14 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.59%) Firmware
3 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.27%) KVM
4 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.27%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.27%) SCCM
4 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.46%) Cisco
3 9 (11.39%) Meraki
4 8 (10.13%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.33%) Apple
5 5 (6.33%) Aruba
5 5 (6.33%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.06%) Avaya
6 4 (5.06%) F5
6 4 (5.06%) Infoblox
6 4 (5.06%) Netskope
6 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.80%) Juniper
8 2 (2.53%) Adobe
8 2 (2.53%) HP
8 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.27%) Arista
9 1 (1.27%) Dell
9 1 (1.27%) EMC
9 1 (1.27%) WatchGuard