WLAN Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 76 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -23 +16
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 1 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.13% 0.15% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.27% 1.52% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £34,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year - -7.48% +14.84%
75th Percentile - £35,000 £40,813
90th Percentile - - £41,000
North East median annual salary - £57,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year - +48.05% +16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

WLAN 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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 79 66 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.92% 9.69% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 67 35 100
10th Percentile £21,620 £32,700 £27,825
25th Percentile £25,294 £35,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £44,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.46% +11.25% -2.44%
75th Percentile £34,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £77,500 £85,000
North East median annual salary £29,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -42.00% +25.00% +6.67%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WLAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

WLAN job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

WLAN
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing WLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing WLAN

WLAN
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 - - 1
WLAN
North East

WLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware