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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 253 212
Rank change year-on-year +13 -41 +93
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 438 263 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 1.01% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.49% 7.49% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 346 201 718
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,528 £32,500 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +12.50% +1.17%
75th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +5.88% +2.12%

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 7,977 3,510 8,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.42% 13.54% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,949 2,581 7,008
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £43,350
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +9.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,485 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.02% +10.49% -6.94%

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 7 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 7 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 +21 111 £31,500 -16.00% 54
South West +4 95 £32,500 -29.35% 15
North of England -2 91 £32,500 -24.15% 28
Midlands -51 67 £41,250 -21.43% 36
North West -2 48 £30,000 -18.37% 19
West Midlands -21 48 £37,500 -25.93% 22
East of England -14 46 £40,000 +3.23% 32
Yorkshire -32 38 £33,500 -25.56% 8
Scotland -11 19 £33,500 -39.09% 9
East Midlands -52 18 £41,250 -28.26% 14
Northern Ireland -30 6 £65,000 - 1
North East -22 5 £48,445 +21.11% 2
Wales -37 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 79 (18.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (16.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.23%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 49 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.68%) Trello
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 187 (42.69%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (26.48%) Azure
3 92 (21.00%) Entra ID
4 27 (6.16%) OneDrive
5 20 (4.57%) AWS
6 12 (2.74%) OCI
7 11 (2.51%) SaaS
8 9 (2.05%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.37%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.91%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.68%) Asana
11 3 (0.68%) ClickUp
11 3 (0.68%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.68%) Stripe
12 2 (0.46%) IaaS
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.46%) PaaS
12 2 (0.46%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.46%) Serverless
12 2 (0.46%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 114 (26.03%) LAN
2 106 (24.20%) Firewall
3 105 (23.97%) WAN
4 99 (22.60%) DNS
5 88 (20.09%) DHCP
6 87 (19.86%) VPN
7 82 (18.72%) VLAN
8 62 (14.16%) VoIP
9 40 (9.13%) TCP/IP
10 35 (7.99%) Structured Cabling
11 31 (7.08%) Wireshark
12 27 (6.16%) Wireless
13 26 (5.94%) Network Security
14 19 (4.34%) SD-WAN
15 17 (3.88%) Unified Communications
16 16 (3.65%) Broadband
17 14 (3.20%) DSL
18 13 (2.97%) DECT
18 13 (2.97%) PBX
18 13 (2.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.83%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.91%) Power BI
4 3 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.60%) JIRA
2 5 (1.14%) Git
3 4 (0.91%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.91%) Subversion
4 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 59 (13.47%) Telecoms
3 41 (9.36%) Organisational Skills
4 39 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.31%) Manufacturing
5 32 (7.31%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.48%) Retail
7 21 (4.79%) Marketing
8 18 (4.11%) Finance
9 17 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.97%) Law
11 11 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.60%) Advertising
12 7 (1.60%) Electronics
13 6 (1.37%) Billing
13 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.68%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 127 (29.00%) IT Support
2 87 (19.86%) Support Engineer
3 81 (18.49%) IT Engineer
4 64 (14.61%) IT Support Engineer
5 54 (12.33%) Support Technician
6 53 (12.10%) 2nd Line Support
7 42 (9.59%) Senior
8 41 (9.36%) IT Technician
9 39 (8.90%) IT Support Technician
10 36 (8.22%) Field Engineer
11 34 (7.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 30 (6.85%) Field Service Engineer
13 29 (6.62%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 25 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (5.25%) Network Engineer
16 21 (4.79%) Operations Manager
17 20 (4.57%) 1st Line Support
18 18 (4.11%) Cabling Engineer
18 18 (4.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
19 17 (3.88%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.68%) 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 (15.75%) Driving Licence
2 35 (7.99%) Data Centre
2 35 (7.99%) EPoS
2 35 (7.99%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.25%) CCTV
5 20 (4.57%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.97%) Fibre Optics
6 13 (2.97%) Web Conferencing
7 12 (2.74%) PKI
8 8 (1.83%) iPad
8 8 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.60%) Replication
10 6 (1.37%) Digital Signage
10 6 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.37%) IoT
10 6 (1.37%) iPhone
10 6 (1.37%) Raspberry Pi
10 6 (1.37%) Social Media
11 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 171 (39.04%) Windows
2 87 (19.86%) Windows Server
3 71 (16.21%) Windows 10
4 32 (7.31%) Android
5 30 (6.85%) Apple iOS
5 30 (6.85%) Mac OS
6 21 (4.79%) Linux
7 9 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.68%) Debian
10 3 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.23%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.23%) Unix
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (17.81%) Customer Service
3 54 (12.33%) ITIL
4 53 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (10.50%) Service Delivery
6 45 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (9.13%) Coaching
8 39 (8.90%) Time Management
9 35 (7.99%) Mentoring
10 32 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
12 26 (5.94%) ITSM
13 24 (5.48%) Project Management
14 18 (4.11%) Cloud Security
15 17 (3.88%) Network Monitoring
16 16 (3.65%) CRM
16 16 (3.65%) Decision-Making
16 16 (3.65%) Mobile Device Management
17 15 (3.42%) Creative Thinking
17 15 (3.42%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.16%) PowerShell
2 26 (5.94%) Python
3 12 (2.74%) SQL
4 8 (1.83%) C
5 5 (1.14%) Embedded C
6 4 (0.91%) C++
7 2 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.23%) Bash
8 1 (0.23%) C#
8 1 (0.23%) PHP
8 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (11.87%) Degree
2 39 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 34 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.20%) CCNA
7 11 (2.51%) CCNP
8 10 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.83%) CIPD
11 7 (1.60%) DBS Check
12 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.68%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.68%) MCSE
16 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
17 1 (0.23%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (5.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (4.79%) SLA
4 13 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (2.51%) GDPR
6 4 (0.91%) QA
7 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 157 (35.84%) Active Directory
2 47 (10.73%) Hyper-V
3 37 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.97%) BitLocker
5 11 (2.51%) Firmware
6 10 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.46%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (13.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.88%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (3.20%) SCCM
4 13 (2.97%) Ansible
5 12 (2.74%) Terraform
6 10 (2.28%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.68%) Autotask
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 198 (45.21%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.73%) VMware
3 36 (8.22%) Cisco
4 29 (6.62%) Apple
5 25 (5.71%) Meraki
6 23 (5.25%) Aruba
7 16 (3.65%) Veeam
8 14 (3.20%) Ubiquiti
9 12 (2.74%) Arista
9 12 (2.74%) HP
9 12 (2.74%) NetScout
9 12 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.05%) Google
10 9 (2.05%) Sophos
11 8 (1.83%) Dell
11 8 (1.83%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.60%) SonicWALL
13 6 (1.37%) Okta
13 6 (1.37%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.37%) TP-LINK