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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 130 180
Rank change year-on-year -46 +50 -143
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 59 39 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.65% 1.12% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.78% 6.90% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 47 21 53
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £23,965
25th Percentile £33,500 £28,750 £29,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £48,750 £50,000
90th Percentile - - £65,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +11.11%

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 672 565 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.36% 16.25% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 385 384 641
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,565 £60,918
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,925 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,292 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -15.42% -2.25%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 - 28 £70,000 - 4
Bristol -35 10 £50,000 +17.65% 4
Somerset -26 9 £37,000 +2.63% 3
Wiltshire -14 5 £52,500 +28.05% 2
Devon - 4 £26,000 - 3
Dorset -16 1 £37,500 +35.14% 2
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 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.78%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (13.56%) AWS
3 7 (11.86%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.17%) Azure
5 1 (1.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (16.95%) Bluetooth
2 10 (16.95%) VPN
3 9 (15.25%) DNS
3 9 (15.25%) Firewall
3 9 (15.25%) VLAN
4 7 (11.86%) BGP
4 7 (11.86%) DHCP
4 7 (11.86%) OSPF
4 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
4 7 (11.86%) WAN
5 6 (10.17%) LAN
5 6 (10.17%) SD-WAN
6 5 (8.47%) Network Security
6 5 (8.47%) WLAN
7 4 (6.78%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (5.08%) EIGRP
9 2 (3.39%) HSRP
9 2 (3.39%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (3.39%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Git
1 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
3 8 (13.56%) Electronics
4 4 (6.78%) Advertising
4 4 (6.78%) Law
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) Finance
7 1 (1.69%) Local Government
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Support Engineer
2 14 (23.73%) IT Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Embedded Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) IT Support
4 11 (18.64%) IT Support Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Software Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Technical Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Technical Support
4 11 (18.64%) Technical Support Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Trainee Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Driving Licence
2 9 (15.25%) IoT
3 8 (13.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.39%) CMDB
5 2 (3.39%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Apple TV
6 1 (1.69%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.69%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.69%) Home Automation
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.69%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Mac OS
3 6 (10.17%) Apple iOS
4 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (20.34%) Customer Service
2 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
3 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (18.64%) Signal Processing
4 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
6 5 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (6.78%) Change Management
7 4 (6.78%) CRM
7 4 (6.78%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (6.78%) ITIL
7 4 (6.78%) Mathematics
7 4 (6.78%) Mentoring
7 4 (6.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (5.08%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (5.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) Python
2 2 (3.39%) C
3 1 (1.69%) C++
3 1 (1.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) CCNP
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) HNC
4 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.69%) CCNA
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.69%) JTAG
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.78%) Firmware
2 4 (6.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.69%) KVM
3 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.47%) Ansible
3 4 (6.78%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.69%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) Cisco
3 6 (10.17%) Fortinet
4 5 (8.47%) Aruba
5 4 (6.78%) Adobe
5 4 (6.78%) Meraki
6 3 (5.08%) Juniper
6 3 (5.08%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.39%) Avaya
7 2 (3.39%) F5
7 2 (3.39%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.39%) Netskope
7 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.69%) Apple
8 1 (1.69%) Arista
8 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.69%) Dell
8 1 (1.69%) HP
8 1 (1.69%) VMware