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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 100 221
Rank change year-on-year -155 +121 +86
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 500 1,018 894
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 3.10% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.05% 18.62% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 413 226 708
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +6.67% -2.60%
75th Percentile £48,142 £53,750 £49,063
90th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £61,250
UK median annual salary £38,750 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.63% -2.35% +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 4,975 5,468 9,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.06% 16.68% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,395 2,952 6,858
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,087 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,063 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,450 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -90 159 £35,000 -15.66% 61
North of England +28 114 £33,000 +1.54% 40
Midlands -99 99 £37,500 -11.76% 24
North West +44 70 £29,500 +1.72% 20
South West -67 69 £34,000 -18.56% 20
West Midlands -16 54 £32,500 -22.62% 16
East of England -130 46 £34,000 -12.26% 20
East Midlands -98 44 £40,000 -15.79% 8
Yorkshire -3 40 £42,500 +30.77% 14
Scotland +8 12 £25,250 -23.48% 2
Wales -50 7 £35,000 -6.96% 9
North East -45 4 £48,445 +21.11% 8
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
1 107 (21.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (19.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.40%) Apache
4 2 (0.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.00%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 227 (45.40%) Microsoft 365
2 146 (29.20%) Azure
3 126 (25.20%) Entra ID
4 36 (7.20%) AWS
5 18 (3.60%) SaaS
6 16 (3.20%) OneDrive
7 13 (2.60%) Mimecast
8 12 (2.40%) OCI
9 8 (1.60%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.60%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.60%) Asana
13 3 (0.60%) ClickUp
13 3 (0.60%) Stripe
14 2 (0.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (0.40%) Rubrik
14 2 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 223 (44.60%) Firewall
2 127 (25.40%) DNS
2 127 (25.40%) LAN
3 126 (25.20%) VPN
4 121 (24.20%) WAN
5 114 (22.80%) DHCP
6 106 (21.20%) VLAN
7 69 (13.80%) VoIP
8 67 (13.40%) Wireless
9 62 (12.40%) Internet
10 59 (11.80%) TCP/IP
11 51 (10.20%) Network Security
12 38 (7.60%) Broadband
13 36 (7.20%) Structured Cabling
14 28 (5.60%) Bluetooth
15 27 (5.40%) Cisco Nexus
16 26 (5.20%) Wireshark
17 21 (4.20%) NGFW
18 20 (4.00%) SD-WAN
19 16 (3.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.80%) MySQL
3 3 (0.60%) Power BI
4 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (2.80%) Git
2 9 (1.80%) JIRA
3 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.80%) GDB
3 4 (0.80%) GitLab
3 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.80%) Robot Framework
3 4 (0.80%) Subversion
4 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 155 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 43 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.20%) Manufacturing
7 25 (5.00%) Retail
8 17 (3.40%) Finance
9 16 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (3.20%) Law
10 11 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.20%) Marketing
11 9 (1.80%) Electronics
12 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.20%) Advertising
14 4 (0.80%) Military
15 3 (0.60%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.40%) Aerospace
17 1 (0.20%) Billing
17 1 (0.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 160 (32.00%) IT Support
2 122 (24.40%) IT Engineer
2 122 (24.40%) Support Engineer
3 101 (20.20%) IT Support Engineer
4 66 (13.20%) Senior
5 57 (11.40%) Analyst
6 52 (10.40%) 2nd Line Support
7 50 (10.00%) Support Technician
8 47 (9.40%) IT Technician
9 46 (9.20%) Network Engineer
10 43 (8.60%) IT Support Technician
11 29 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (5.60%) Sales Executive
13 26 (5.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 26 (5.20%) Network Analyst
13 26 (5.20%) Security Analyst
13 26 (5.20%) Senior Security Analyst
14 25 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 25 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 25 (5.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.40%) Yocto
2 5 (1.00%) 802.1X
3 4 (0.80%) pytest
3 4 (0.80%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (0.60%) Web Services
5 1 (0.20%) .NET
5 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.20%) NumPy
5 1 (0.20%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.20%) SciPy
5 1 (0.20%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 96 (19.20%) Driving Licence
2 52 (10.40%) Onboarding
3 39 (7.80%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (6.80%) CCTV
5 25 (5.00%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.60%) IoT
7 15 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
9 13 (2.60%) PKI
10 12 (2.40%) Raspberry Pi
11 11 (2.20%) EPoS
12 10 (2.00%) Device Driver
13 9 (1.80%) Fibre Optics
13 9 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.60%) Clustering
14 8 (1.60%) FMCG
15 6 (1.20%) ARM Cortex
15 6 (1.20%) Digital Signage
15 6 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
16 5 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 202 (40.40%) Windows
2 114 (22.80%) Windows Server
3 81 (16.20%) Windows 10
4 36 (7.20%) Mac OS
5 31 (6.20%) Linux
6 30 (6.00%) Android
7 29 (5.80%) Apple iOS
8 20 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.60%) Embedded Linux
12 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
15 1 (0.20%) Unix
15 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (31.80%) Problem-Solving
2 123 (24.60%) Customer Service
3 119 (23.80%) Cybersecurity
4 65 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
6 52 (10.40%) Service Delivery
7 51 (10.20%) ITIL
8 40 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 38 (7.60%) Time Management
10 37 (7.40%) Business Continuity
11 36 (7.20%) Coaching
12 35 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (7.00%) Vulnerability Management
13 33 (6.60%) ITSM
14 28 (5.60%) Incident Management
14 28 (5.60%) Project Delivery
15 26 (5.20%) Penetration Testing
15 26 (5.20%) SIEM
16 25 (5.00%) Data Security
17 24 (4.80%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.20%) PowerShell
2 35 (7.00%) Python
3 21 (4.20%) C
4 17 (3.40%) SQL
5 12 (2.40%) Embedded C
6 10 (2.00%) C++
7 4 (0.80%) Bash
8 2 (0.40%) Bicep
8 2 (0.40%) Rust
9 1 (0.20%) C#
9 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (10.40%) Degree
2 48 (9.60%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 37 (7.40%) CCNA
5 30 (6.00%) Security Cleared
6 29 (5.80%) SC Cleared
7 16 (3.20%) CCNP
7 16 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (3.00%) DBS Check
9 13 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 12 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (1.60%) CIPD
11 8 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.80%) CISSP
14 4 (0.80%) MCSA
14 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.60%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 30 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (5.20%) SLA
4 23 (4.60%) GDPR
5 14 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.40%) JTAG
7 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.60%) QA
8 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 204 (40.80%) Active Directory
2 66 (13.20%) Hyper-V
3 52 (10.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.80%) Firmware
5 13 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.20%) BitLocker
6 11 (2.20%) vSphere
7 3 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.60%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 72 (14.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.80%) FortiGate
3 13 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
3 13 (2.60%) Terraform
4 12 (2.40%) Ansible
4 12 (2.40%) SCCM
5 6 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.80%) Iperf
6 4 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.60%) Autotask
7 3 (0.60%) cPanel
7 3 (0.60%) Plesk
7 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.40%) WSUS
9 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 251 (50.20%) Microsoft
2 85 (17.00%) Cisco
3 63 (12.60%) VMware
4 61 (12.20%) Aruba
5 46 (9.20%) Palo Alto
6 31 (6.20%) SonicWALL
6 31 (6.20%) Veeam
7 29 (5.80%) Qualys
8 26 (5.20%) Apple
9 25 (5.00%) Meraki
10 23 (4.60%) Fortinet
11 20 (4.00%) Ubiquiti
12 18 (3.60%) Sophos
13 12 (2.40%) Arista
13 12 (2.40%) NetScout
14 11 (2.20%) HP
14 11 (2.20%) ServiceNow
15 10 (2.00%) Dell
16 9 (1.80%) Google
16 9 (1.80%) Juniper