Wi-Fi Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 91 223
Rank change year-on-year -160 +132 +73
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 433 979 899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 3.43% 1.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.41% 20.05% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 350 194 725
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £43,750 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,000 £73,950 £62,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £42,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.13% +0.59% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wi-Fi 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,755 4,882 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.11% 17.12% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,971 2,530 7,044
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £42,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -2.30% -3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.94%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Wi-Fi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK excluding London

Wi-Fi
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
South East -116 113 £31,500 -19.23% 70
North of England +24 95 £32,500 +8.33% 31
South West -25 87 £32,500 -29.35% 17
Midlands -123 85 £32,500 -35.00% 26
North West +27 53 £30,000 +11.11% 16
West Midlands -25 49 £32,500 -35.00% 17
East of England -130 42 £40,000 - 24
Yorkshire -15 39 £34,000 +13.33% 12
East Midlands -107 35 £37,500 -31.82% 9
Scotland -1 11 £25,250 -23.48% 11
Northern Ireland -38 5 £65,000 - 1
North East -33 3 £48,445 +21.11% 4
Wales -49 1 £72,500 +81.25% 1
Wi-Fi
UK

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 92 (21.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (21.02%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 41 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 186 (42.96%) Microsoft 365
2 123 (28.41%) Azure
3 109 (25.17%) Entra ID
4 22 (5.08%) OneDrive
5 21 (4.85%) AWS
6 15 (3.46%) SaaS
7 12 (2.77%) Mimecast
7 12 (2.77%) OCI
8 7 (1.62%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.62%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.69%) Asana
9 3 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.69%) ClickUp
9 3 (0.69%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.69%) Stripe
10 2 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.46%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.46%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 129 (29.79%) Firewall
2 92 (21.25%) DNS
3 88 (20.32%) LAN
3 88 (20.32%) VPN
4 81 (18.71%) WAN
5 80 (18.48%) DHCP
6 72 (16.63%) VLAN
7 62 (14.32%) VoIP
8 40 (9.24%) Internet
9 39 (9.01%) Broadband
10 35 (8.08%) TCP/IP
11 34 (7.85%) Structured Cabling
12 32 (7.39%) Wireless
13 25 (5.77%) Network Security
13 25 (5.77%) Wireshark
14 19 (4.39%) Bluetooth
15 12 (2.77%) NGFW
15 12 (2.77%) SD-WAN
15 12 (2.77%) Unified Communications
15 12 (2.77%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.92%) Power BI
3 3 (0.69%) MySQL
3 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.85%) Git
1 8 (1.85%) JIRA
2 4 (0.92%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.92%) Subversion
3 3 (0.69%) GDB
3 3 (0.69%) GitLab
3 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.69%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 121 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.01%) Telecoms
3 36 (8.31%) Manufacturing
4 33 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
5 29 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.54%) Retail
7 18 (4.16%) Finance
8 15 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.23%) Law
10 13 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (3.00%) Marketing
11 9 (2.08%) Advertising
12 7 (1.62%) Electronics
13 5 (1.15%) Billing
13 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.69%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.46%) Military
16 1 (0.23%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 128 (29.56%) IT Support
2 103 (23.79%) Support Engineer
3 94 (21.71%) IT Engineer
4 80 (18.48%) IT Support Engineer
5 50 (11.55%) 2nd Line Support
6 49 (11.32%) Support Technician
7 40 (9.24%) IT Technician
7 40 (9.24%) Senior
8 38 (8.78%) IT Support Technician
9 31 (7.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 27 (6.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 27 (6.24%) Sales Executive
11 26 (6.00%) Field Engineer
12 24 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (5.31%) Network Engineer
14 22 (5.08%) Field Sales Executive
15 21 (4.85%) Operations Manager
16 20 (4.62%) Field Service Engineer
17 19 (4.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 18 (4.16%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.92%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.69%) pytest
2 3 (0.69%) Unity DI Container
2 3 (0.69%) Yocto
3 1 (0.23%) .NET
3 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.23%) NumPy
3 1 (0.23%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.23%) SciPy
3 1 (0.23%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 74 (17.09%) Driving Licence
2 34 (7.85%) Onboarding
3 31 (7.16%) Data Centre
4 28 (6.47%) CCTV
5 24 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (4.85%) EPoS
7 15 (3.46%) Fibre Optics
8 14 (3.23%) IoT
9 12 (2.77%) PKI
10 10 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.85%) Clustering
11 8 (1.85%) FMCG
11 8 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
13 6 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.39%) iPad
13 6 (1.39%) Raspberry Pi
13 6 (1.39%) Replication
14 5 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 159 (36.72%) Windows
2 84 (19.40%) Windows Server
3 71 (16.40%) Windows 10
4 35 (8.08%) Mac OS
5 31 (7.16%) Android
5 31 (7.16%) Apple iOS
6 18 (4.16%) Linux
7 11 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.23%) Unix
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (20.32%) Customer Service
3 60 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (11.09%) ITIL
5 45 (10.39%) Service Delivery
6 44 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (8.08%) Disaster Recovery
8 34 (7.85%) Coaching
9 32 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (7.16%) Time Management
11 27 (6.24%) ITSM
11 27 (6.24%) Mentoring
12 24 (5.54%) Project Management
13 22 (5.08%) CRM
13 22 (5.08%) Mobile Device Management
14 18 (4.16%) Network Monitoring
15 17 (3.93%) Business Development
15 17 (3.93%) Cloud Security
16 16 (3.70%) Project Delivery
17 15 (3.46%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.93%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.24%) Python
3 17 (3.93%) SQL
4 8 (1.85%) C
5 5 (1.15%) Embedded C
6 4 (0.92%) C++
7 3 (0.69%) Bash
8 2 (0.46%) Bicep
8 2 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.23%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (10.39%) Degree
2 37 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (3.70%) CCNA
7 13 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.08%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.85%) CCNP
9 8 (1.85%) CIPD
10 6 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.69%) MCSE
14 2 (0.46%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 28 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.31%) SLA
4 14 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (2.54%) GDPR
6 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.92%) JTAG
6 4 (0.92%) QA
7 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 159 (36.72%) Active Directory
2 54 (12.47%) Hyper-V
3 38 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.23%) BitLocker
5 11 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.08%) Firmware
7 6 (1.39%) vSphere
8 3 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (16.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
3 15 (3.46%) SCCM
4 13 (3.00%) Terraform
5 12 (2.77%) Ansible
6 9 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 8 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.46%) Autotask
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 203 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.62%) VMware
3 33 (7.62%) Cisco
4 27 (6.24%) Apple
5 24 (5.54%) Meraki
5 24 (5.54%) Veeam
6 19 (4.39%) Aruba
7 16 (3.70%) Ubiquiti
8 15 (3.46%) SonicWALL
9 12 (2.77%) Arista
9 12 (2.77%) NetScout
10 10 (2.31%) Sophos
11 9 (2.08%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.85%) Dell
12 8 (1.85%) HP
13 7 (1.62%) Adobe
13 7 (1.62%) Google
13 7 (1.62%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.39%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.39%) TP-LINK