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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 93 223
Rank change year-on-year -150 +130 +65
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 467 996 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 3.38% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.99% 19.32% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 380 202 742
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,275 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £41,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.48% +6.41% +1.30%
75th Percentile £45,000 £56,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +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 4,677 5,154 9,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.03% 17.47% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,161 2,668 7,137
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,087 £25,756
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -10.11% -1.11%
75th Percentile £60,125 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £69,850
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.39%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -85 141 £31,500 -24.10% 68
North of England +35 101 £33,000 +1.54% 33
Midlands -101 92 £37,500 -21.05% 24
South West -48 75 £32,500 -30.48% 9
North West +49 56 £30,000 +3.45% 19
West Midlands -19 52 £32,500 -29.73% 16
East of England -123 46 £35,000 -9.68% 23
Yorkshire -6 42 £42,500 +30.77% 12
East Midlands -98 39 £37,500 -23.08% 8
Scotland +15 12 £25,250 -23.48% 3
North East -38 3 £48,445 +21.11% 5
Northern Ireland -39 3 £65,000 -
Wales -47 3 £48,500 +28.93% 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 95 (20.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 89 (19.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 198 (42.40%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (28.05%) Azure
3 114 (24.41%) Entra ID
4 29 (6.21%) AWS
5 17 (3.64%) OneDrive
5 17 (3.64%) SaaS
6 13 (2.78%) Mimecast
7 12 (2.57%) OCI
8 9 (1.93%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.71%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (0.86%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.64%) Asana
11 3 (0.64%) ClickUp
11 3 (0.64%) Stripe
12 2 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.43%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 179 (38.33%) Firewall
2 106 (22.70%) LAN
2 106 (22.70%) VPN
3 101 (21.63%) WAN
4 100 (21.41%) DNS
5 86 (18.42%) DHCP
6 82 (17.56%) VLAN
7 66 (14.13%) VoIP
8 53 (11.35%) Internet
9 46 (9.85%) Wireless
10 43 (9.21%) TCP/IP
11 41 (8.78%) Broadband
12 39 (8.35%) Network Security
13 38 (8.14%) Structured Cabling
14 25 (5.35%) Wireshark
15 22 (4.71%) Bluetooth
16 19 (4.07%) SD-WAN
17 18 (3.85%) NGFW
18 16 (3.43%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (3.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.64%) MySQL
2 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.64%) Power BI
3 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.14%) JIRA
2 9 (1.93%) Git
3 4 (0.86%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.86%) GDB
3 4 (0.86%) GitLab
3 4 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.86%) Robot Framework
3 4 (0.86%) Subversion
4 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.06%) Telecoms
3 39 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.07%) Manufacturing
5 31 (6.64%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (6.21%) Public Sector
7 28 (6.00%) Retail
8 17 (3.64%) Finance
9 16 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.21%) Law
11 14 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.57%) Marketing
13 10 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.50%) Advertising
14 7 (1.50%) Electronics
15 4 (0.86%) Military
16 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.64%) Billing
16 3 (0.64%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.21%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 141 (30.19%) IT Support
2 111 (23.77%) Support Engineer
3 102 (21.84%) IT Engineer
4 87 (18.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 54 (11.56%) Senior
6 51 (10.92%) Support Technician
7 50 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support
8 43 (9.21%) IT Technician
9 41 (8.78%) IT Support Technician
10 35 (7.49%) Analyst
10 35 (7.49%) Network Engineer
11 28 (6.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 28 (6.00%) Sales Executive
12 26 (5.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 24 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.93%) Field Sales Executive
15 21 (4.50%) Operations Manager
16 20 (4.28%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 19 (4.07%) Field Engineer
17 19 (4.07%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.86%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.86%) pytest
1 4 (0.86%) Unity DI Container
1 4 (0.86%) Yocto
2 1 (0.21%) .NET
2 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.21%) NumPy
2 1 (0.21%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.21%) SciPy
2 1 (0.21%) Web Services
2 1 (0.21%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 86 (18.42%) Driving Licence
2 44 (9.42%) Onboarding
3 30 (6.42%) Data Centre
4 28 (6.00%) CCTV
4 28 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.43%) EPoS
6 15 (3.21%) Fibre Optics
6 15 (3.21%) IoT
7 14 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.57%) PKI
9 8 (1.71%) Clustering
9 8 (1.71%) FMCG
9 8 (1.71%) Raspberry Pi
10 7 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.28%) Digital Signage
12 5 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 174 (37.26%) Windows
2 95 (20.34%) Windows Server
3 75 (16.06%) Windows 10
4 35 (7.49%) Mac OS
5 29 (6.21%) Android
5 29 (6.21%) Apple iOS
6 21 (4.50%) Linux
7 15 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.21%) Unix
11 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (20.99%) Customer Service
3 90 (19.27%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (11.13%) ITIL
5 50 (10.71%) Service Delivery
6 49 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (10.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 33 (7.07%) Mentoring
9 32 (6.85%) Time Management
10 31 (6.64%) Coaching
11 30 (6.42%) ITSM
12 23 (4.93%) Mobile Device Management
13 22 (4.71%) Business Continuity
13 22 (4.71%) Project Delivery
13 22 (4.71%) Project Management
14 21 (4.50%) CRM
15 20 (4.28%) Network Monitoring
15 20 (4.28%) Vulnerability Management
16 18 (3.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.85%) PowerShell
2 28 (6.00%) Python
3 17 (3.64%) SQL
4 12 (2.57%) C
5 7 (1.50%) Embedded C
6 5 (1.07%) C++
7 4 (0.86%) Bash
8 2 (0.43%) Bicep
8 2 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.21%) C#
9 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (10.28%) Degree
2 40 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (8.35%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (7.49%) Security Cleared
5 34 (7.28%) SC Cleared
6 29 (6.21%) CCNA
7 17 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
8 14 (3.00%) DBS Check
9 12 (2.57%) CCNP
10 10 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (1.93%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.71%) CIPD
13 7 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 3 (0.64%) A+ Certification
17 3 (0.64%) CISSP
17 3 (0.64%) MCSE
18 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 31 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (5.57%) SLA
4 17 (3.64%) GDPR
5 15 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.07%) JTAG
7 4 (0.86%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.64%) QA
9 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 175 (37.47%) Active Directory
2 58 (12.42%) Hyper-V
3 41 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.00%) BitLocker
5 12 (2.57%) Firmware
6 11 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.64%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 71 (15.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.21%) Jamf Pro
2 15 (3.21%) SCCM
3 13 (2.78%) Terraform
4 12 (2.57%) Ansible
5 11 (2.36%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.28%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.64%) Autotask
9 2 (0.43%) cPanel
9 2 (0.43%) Plesk
10 1 (0.21%) Iperf
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 220 (47.11%) Microsoft
2 64 (13.70%) Cisco
3 52 (11.13%) VMware
4 44 (9.42%) Aruba
5 29 (6.21%) Veeam
6 27 (5.78%) Apple
7 25 (5.35%) Meraki
8 24 (5.14%) Palo Alto
9 22 (4.71%) SonicWALL
10 18 (3.85%) Ubiquiti
11 16 (3.43%) Qualys
12 14 (3.00%) Fortinet
13 12 (2.57%) Arista
13 12 (2.57%) NetScout
13 12 (2.57%) Sophos
14 10 (2.14%) Google
15 9 (1.93%) HP
15 9 (1.93%) ServiceNow
16 8 (1.71%) Dell
17 7 (1.50%) Adobe