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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 98 256
Rank change year-on-year -153 +158 +37
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 525 1,031 575
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 2.99% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 17.83% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 429 230 449
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,725 £24,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,656 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -2.60%
75th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £62,000 £59,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.61% -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 5,251 5,783 6,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.99% 16.80% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 3,141 4,757
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -3.85%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -81 173 £35,000 -15.66% 58
Midlands -97 108 £40,000 +2.56% 39
North of England +24 107 £32,500 +8.33% 54
South West -78 68 £38,189 +17.50% 18
North West +42 62 £30,000 +11.11% 31
West Midlands -22 58 £52,500 +34.62% 25
East Midlands -89 50 £40,000 -3.03% 14
East of England -130 50 £34,000 -12.26% 20
Yorkshire -19 38 £42,500 +6.25% 20
Wales -50 16 £29,000 -17.14% 6
Scotland +9 9 £28,000 -15.15% 4
North East -49 7 £65,576 +63.94% 4
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
1 112 (21.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (19.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.57%) Apache
3 3 (0.57%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) Confluence
4 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.19%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.19%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 34 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.57%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.14%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 230 (43.81%) Microsoft 365
2 140 (26.67%) Azure
3 135 (25.71%) Entra ID
4 25 (4.76%) AWS
5 17 (3.24%) OneDrive
6 15 (2.86%) Mimecast
7 11 (2.10%) SaaS
8 9 (1.71%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.52%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.14%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.57%) Asana
11 3 (0.57%) ClickUp
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.57%) Stripe
12 2 (0.38%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.38%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 225 (42.86%) Firewall
2 145 (27.62%) LAN
3 136 (25.90%) WAN
4 133 (25.33%) VPN
5 120 (22.86%) DNS
6 106 (20.19%) DHCP
6 106 (20.19%) VLAN
7 84 (16.00%) Wireless
8 69 (13.14%) VoIP
9 66 (12.57%) Internet
10 58 (11.05%) TCP/IP
11 53 (10.10%) Network Security
12 39 (7.43%) Broadband
13 37 (7.05%) Cisco Nexus
14 33 (6.29%) Structured Cabling
15 30 (5.71%) Bluetooth
16 27 (5.14%) OSPF
17 26 (4.95%) BGP
18 21 (4.00%) SD-WAN
19 18 (3.43%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.57%) MySQL
2 3 (0.57%) Power BI
3 2 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (2.86%) Git
2 8 (1.52%) JIRA
3 6 (1.14%) GDB
3 6 (1.14%) GitLab
3 6 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 166 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.19%) Telecoms
3 39 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (4.19%) Manufacturing
6 21 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.00%) Retail
7 17 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.05%) Finance
9 15 (2.86%) Law
10 14 (2.67%) Electronics
11 12 (2.29%) Advertising
12 11 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Marketing
15 4 (0.76%) Wearables
16 3 (0.57%) Social Housing
17 2 (0.38%) Military
18 1 (0.19%) Billing
18 1 (0.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 167 (31.81%) IT Support
2 123 (23.43%) IT Engineer
3 122 (23.24%) Support Engineer
4 105 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 98 (18.67%) Senior
6 78 (14.86%) Network Engineer
7 68 (12.95%) Analyst
8 51 (9.71%) Support Technician
9 43 (8.19%) IT Technician
10 41 (7.81%) IT Support Technician
11 39 (7.43%) Senior Network Engineer
12 37 (7.05%) 2nd Line Support
13 32 (6.10%) Sales Executive
13 32 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (5.71%) Support Analyst
15 29 (5.52%) Network Analyst
16 28 (5.33%) IT Analyst
17 27 (5.14%) Senior Network Analyst
18 26 (4.95%) Security Analyst
18 26 (4.95%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.29%) Yocto
2 5 (0.95%) 802.1X
3 4 (0.76%) pytest
3 4 (0.76%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (0.57%) Flash
4 3 (0.57%) Web Services
5 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 95 (18.10%) Driving Licence
2 54 (10.29%) Onboarding
3 41 (7.81%) CCTV
4 40 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (4.95%) IoT
6 19 (3.62%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (2.86%) Device Driver
8 14 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.10%) Raspberry Pi
10 10 (1.90%) Clustering
11 9 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.52%) ARM Cortex
12 8 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (1.52%) FMCG
13 7 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.33%) EPoS
14 6 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
15 5 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.95%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 207 (39.43%) Windows
2 105 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 76 (14.48%) Windows 10
4 42 (8.00%) Mac OS
5 32 (6.10%) Linux
6 27 (5.14%) Android
7 22 (4.19%) Apple iOS
8 18 (3.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (2.67%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
14 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 139 (26.48%) Cybersecurity
3 136 (25.90%) Customer Service
4 73 (13.90%) Disaster Recovery
5 67 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (10.10%) ITIL
7 47 (8.95%) Service Delivery
8 46 (8.76%) Business Continuity
9 44 (8.38%) Vulnerability Management
10 41 (7.81%) Incident Management
11 35 (6.67%) SIEM
11 35 (6.67%) Time Management
12 34 (6.48%) Data Security
12 34 (6.48%) Mentoring
12 34 (6.48%) Penetration Testing
12 34 (6.48%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 33 (6.29%) Network Load Balancing
14 31 (5.90%) Coaching
14 31 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 31 (5.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.29%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.76%) C
3 20 (3.81%) Python
4 17 (3.24%) SQL
5 14 (2.67%) C++
5 14 (2.67%) Embedded C
6 4 (0.76%) Bash
7 2 (0.38%) Bicep
7 2 (0.38%) Rust
8 1 (0.19%) Go
8 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (11.24%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (9.90%) Degree
3 49 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 37 (7.05%) CCNA
5 26 (4.95%) CCNP
6 23 (4.38%) DBS Check
7 20 (3.81%) Security Cleared
8 19 (3.62%) Network+ Certification
8 19 (3.62%) SC Cleared
9 15 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (2.29%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.52%) CIPD
13 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.14%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.76%) CISSP
15 4 (0.76%) MCSA
15 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 28 (5.33%) SLA
3 22 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.62%) GDPR
5 15 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.71%) JTAG
7 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 208 (39.62%) Active Directory
2 71 (13.52%) Hyper-V
3 53 (10.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.67%) Firmware
5 12 (2.29%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.52%) vSphere
7 7 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.57%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.19%) iptables
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 83 (15.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (3.05%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (2.67%) FortiGate
4 13 (2.48%) SCCM
5 7 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (0.76%) Iperf
7 3 (0.57%) Autotask
7 3 (0.57%) cPanel
7 3 (0.57%) Plesk
7 3 (0.57%) WSUS
8 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 254 (48.38%) Microsoft
2 118 (22.48%) Cisco
3 70 (13.33%) Aruba
4 62 (11.81%) VMware
5 57 (10.86%) Palo Alto
6 39 (7.43%) Veeam
7 38 (7.24%) Qualys
7 38 (7.24%) SonicWALL
8 28 (5.33%) Apple
9 27 (5.14%) Ubiquiti
10 24 (4.57%) Fortinet
11 23 (4.38%) Meraki
12 18 (3.43%) Sophos
13 11 (2.10%) Datto
13 11 (2.10%) Google
14 9 (1.71%) HP
14 9 (1.71%) WatchGuard
15 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
16 7 (1.33%) CheckPoint
16 7 (1.33%) Juniper