Wireless Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Wireless
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 41 135
Rank change year-on-year -85 +94 -63
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 65 233 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.98% 6.48% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.80% 39.42% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 58
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £40,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.91% +3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £56,250 £46,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £48,500 £73,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% +1.27% +5.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 471 591 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.12% 16.43% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 356 284 462
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,625 £79,875
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Wireless

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Oxfordshire -27 36 £47,166 +17.91% 23
Berkshire +27 24 £47,500 +3.26% 19
Buckinghamshire -81 5 £32,000 +8.47% 3
Wireless
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (33.85%) Lightworks
2 3 (4.62%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (6.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) Azure
2 5 (7.69%) AWS
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.85%) Firewall
2 21 (32.31%) VPN
3 19 (29.23%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (23.08%) VLAN
5 13 (20.00%) DHCP
5 13 (20.00%) DNS
5 13 (20.00%) LAN
6 12 (18.46%) Network Security
7 11 (16.92%) WAN
8 10 (15.38%) SD-WAN
9 9 (13.85%) TCP/IP
10 6 (9.23%) Ethernet
11 5 (7.69%) OSPF
11 5 (7.69%) WLAN
12 3 (4.62%) BGP
12 3 (4.62%) MQTT
12 3 (4.62%) Unified Communications
12 3 (4.62%) VoIP
13 2 (3.08%) Broadband
14 1 (1.54%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Git
1 3 (4.62%) PetaLinux
General
1 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Telecoms
3 8 (12.31%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Network Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Embedded Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Software Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) CAD Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Network Operations Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Optical Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Project Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Telecoms Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Consultant
5 5 (7.69%) Network Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Account Manager
6 4 (6.15%) IT Support
6 4 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.23%) CCTV
3 4 (6.15%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.62%) FPGA
4 3 (4.62%) IoT
4 3 (4.62%) Verilog
4 3 (4.62%) VHDL
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.62%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (4.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (18.46%) Software Engineering
3 9 (13.85%) Presales
4 7 (10.77%) Customer Service
4 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (9.23%) B2B
5 6 (9.23%) B2B Sales
5 6 (9.23%) CAD
5 6 (9.23%) Data Protection
5 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (9.23%) Time Management
6 5 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
6 5 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (7.69%) ITIL
6 5 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 5 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (6.15%) Business Development
7 4 (6.15%) CRM
7 4 (6.15%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.85%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) C
3 3 (4.62%) C++
3 3 (4.62%) MATLAB
3 3 (4.62%) Rust
4 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) CCNA
1 10 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (9.23%) Degree
3 4 (6.15%) CCNP
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.62%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.54%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CISM
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) GDPR
2 4 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (4.62%) ECSS
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.23%) Hyper-V
2 6 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.23%) vSphere
3 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.62%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.38%) Cisco
2 10 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 7 (10.77%) Aruba
4 6 (9.23%) VMware
5 5 (7.69%) Juniper
5 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 4 (6.15%) HubSpot
6 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.62%) Starlink
7 3 (4.62%) Xilinx
8 2 (3.08%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (3.08%) WatchGuard