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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 151 158
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +42
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 17 35 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.94% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.98% 7.78% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 93
10th Percentile £27,500 - £27,420
25th Percentile £27,688 £34,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,526 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.22% +27.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £70,000 £53,250
90th Percentile £55,983 £78,000 £63,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +22.22% -

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 570 450 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.22% 12.13% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 316 251 803
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,336
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £51,058 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +4.73% +8.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,582 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.22% +10.00% -3.85%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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
Cornwall -7 5 £27,500 -54.17% 1
Dorset +4 3 - - 1
Wiltshire 0 3 £35,000 -1.41% 8
Bristol -3 3 £42,500 +18.06% 11
Devon - 2 £45,000 - 6
Somerset -21 1 £36,051 - 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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) VPN
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
2 6 (35.29%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
4 4 (23.53%) Broadband
4 4 (23.53%) Internet
4 4 (23.53%) VLAN
5 3 (17.65%) LAN
6 2 (11.76%) SAN
7 1 (5.88%) Bluetooth
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
7 1 (5.88%) IPsec
7 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.88%) TETRA
7 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Electronics
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Police
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Coordinator
2 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) Sales Executive
3 2 (11.76%) Sales Support
3 2 (11.76%) Sales Support Executive
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Customer Experience
2 4 (23.53%) Line Management
2 4 (23.53%) Logistics
2 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
2 4 (23.53%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (17.65%) CRM
3 3 (17.65%) ITSM
3 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 1 (5.88%) Server Management
5 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) C
2 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) ACMT
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) City & Guilds
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (23.53%) Autotask
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Meraki
2 3 (17.65%) Veeam
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) SonicWALL
4 1 (5.88%) Apple
4 1 (5.88%) BT
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Datto
4 1 (5.88%) Openreach
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Sophos