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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 256 215
Rank change year-on-year +30 -41 +94
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 435 260 860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.00% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.49% 7.50% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 343 198 707
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,850 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £35,340 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -21.47% +5.88% +0.59%

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 7,925 3,467 8,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.88% 13.39% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,915 2,549 6,943
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £47,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +9.20% -3.33%
75th Percentile £57,239 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.81% -6.31%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +22 109 £31,500 -16.00% 54
South West +11 92 £32,000 -30.43% 15
North of England +4 91 £31,500 -29.53% 28
Midlands -41 68 £42,500 -19.05% 36
North West +9 49 £30,000 -26.83% 19
West Midlands -22 49 £47,000 -8.29% 22
East of England -16 43 £40,000 +6.67% 32
Yorkshire -28 36 £33,500 -25.56% 8
Scotland -1 23 £33,500 -39.09% 9
East Midlands -46 18 £41,250 -28.26% 14
North East -21 6 £48,445 +21.11% 2
Northern Ireland -31 6 £65,000 - 1
Wales -36 3 £28,000 -30.00% 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 78 (17.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (16.32%) 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%) IIS
Applications
1 47 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.69%) Trello
5 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 182 (41.84%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (26.67%) Azure
3 86 (19.77%) Entra ID
4 29 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 20 (4.60%) AWS
6 12 (2.76%) OCI
7 11 (2.53%) SaaS
8 9 (2.07%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.38%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.69%) Asana
10 3 (0.69%) ClickUp
10 3 (0.69%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.69%) Stripe
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.46%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.46%) Slack
12 1 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.23%) IaaS
12 1 (0.23%) PaaS
12 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 117 (26.90%) LAN
2 104 (23.91%) WAN
3 102 (23.45%) Firewall
4 98 (22.53%) DNS
5 91 (20.92%) VPN
6 87 (20.00%) DHCP
7 83 (19.08%) VLAN
8 60 (13.79%) VoIP
9 42 (9.66%) TCP/IP
10 36 (8.28%) Structured Cabling
11 32 (7.36%) Wireshark
12 26 (5.98%) Network Security
13 25 (5.75%) Wireless
14 18 (4.14%) SD-WAN
15 17 (3.91%) Unified Communications
16 16 (3.68%) Broadband
17 14 (3.22%) DSL
18 13 (2.99%) DECT
18 13 (2.99%) PBX
18 13 (2.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.69%) MySQL
3 3 (0.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.38%) JIRA
2 5 (1.15%) Git
3 4 (0.92%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.92%) Subversion
4 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 130 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.10%) Telecoms
3 44 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.44%) Manufacturing
7 23 (5.29%) Retail
8 22 (5.06%) Marketing
9 18 (4.14%) Finance
10 17 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.99%) Law
12 9 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.61%) Advertising
13 7 (1.61%) Electronics
14 6 (1.38%) Billing
14 6 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Legal
16 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.69%) Social Housing
17 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 127 (29.20%) IT Support
2 81 (18.62%) Support Engineer
3 77 (17.70%) IT Engineer
4 60 (13.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 55 (12.64%) Support Technician
6 50 (11.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 45 (10.34%) Senior
8 42 (9.66%) IT Technician
9 40 (9.20%) IT Support Technician
10 36 (8.28%) Field Engineer
11 33 (7.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 30 (6.90%) Field Service Engineer
13 28 (6.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 24 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (5.52%) Network Engineer
15 21 (4.83%) Operations Manager
16 20 (4.60%) 1st Line Support
17 19 (4.37%) Cabling Engineer
18 18 (4.14%) Data Engineer
19 17 (3.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.46%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.23%) .NET
2 1 (0.23%) NumPy
2 1 (0.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.23%) SciPy
2 1 (0.23%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.86%) Driving Licence
2 38 (8.74%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (8.28%) Data Centre
4 35 (8.05%) EPoS
5 25 (5.75%) Onboarding
6 24 (5.52%) CCTV
7 20 (4.60%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.99%) Fibre Optics
8 13 (2.99%) Web Conferencing
9 12 (2.76%) PKI
10 8 (1.84%) iPad
10 8 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.61%) iPhone
11 7 (1.61%) Replication
12 6 (1.38%) Digital Signage
12 6 (1.38%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (1.38%) Social Media
13 5 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.92%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 171 (39.31%) Windows
2 87 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 67 (15.40%) Windows 10
4 32 (7.36%) Android
4 32 (7.36%) Mac OS
5 30 (6.90%) Apple iOS
6 21 (4.83%) Linux
7 10 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.69%) Debian
9 3 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.23%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (18.16%) Customer Service
3 53 (12.18%) ITIL
4 52 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (11.03%) Service Delivery
6 43 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (9.20%) Coaching
8 38 (8.74%) Time Management
9 32 (7.36%) Mentoring
10 30 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
12 26 (5.98%) ITSM
13 21 (4.83%) Project Management
14 18 (4.14%) Cloud Security
15 17 (3.91%) Network Monitoring
16 16 (3.68%) Decision-Making
16 16 (3.68%) Mobile Device Management
17 15 (3.45%) Creative Thinking
17 15 (3.45%) Migration
18 14 (3.22%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.21%) Python
2 26 (5.98%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.07%) C
3 9 (2.07%) SQL
4 5 (1.15%) C++
4 5 (1.15%) Embedded C
5 2 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.23%) Bash
6 1 (0.23%) C#
6 1 (0.23%) PHP
6 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (13.10%) Degree
2 41 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.99%) CCNA
7 12 (2.76%) CCNP
8 9 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (1.84%) CIPD
10 7 (1.61%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.69%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.69%) HND
13 3 (0.69%) MCSE
14 2 (0.46%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (4.37%) SLA
4 13 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (2.30%) GDPR
6 4 (0.92%) QA
7 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 155 (35.63%) Active Directory
2 45 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 36 (8.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.76%) BitLocker
5 11 (2.53%) Firmware
6 9 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (13.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.91%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (3.22%) SCCM
4 13 (2.99%) Ansible
5 12 (2.76%) Terraform
6 9 (2.07%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.69%) Autotask
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 193 (44.37%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.80%) VMware
3 36 (8.28%) Cisco
4 31 (7.13%) Apple
5 26 (5.98%) Meraki
6 22 (5.06%) Aruba
7 15 (3.45%) Veeam
8 12 (2.76%) Arista
8 12 (2.76%) HP
8 12 (2.76%) NetScout
8 12 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.76%) Ubiquiti
9 9 (2.07%) Dell
9 9 (2.07%) Google
10 8 (1.84%) Sophos
11 7 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.61%) SonicWALL
12 6 (1.38%) Okta
13 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow