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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 86 216
Rank change year-on-year -161 +130 +82
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 432 953 907
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 3.42% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.43% 20.47% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 342 211 736
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,250 £24,240
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +6.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,000 £75,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.78% +5.88% +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 7,963 4,656 9,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.07% 16.73% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,861 2,647 7,103
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,942 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -121 108 £31,500 -16.00% 37
South West -7 93 £32,500 -29.35% 15
North of England -12 91 £32,500 -20.73% 57
Midlands -127 77 £37,500 -25.00% 35
North West +6 51 £30,000 -18.37% 22
West Midlands -26 51 £32,500 -35.00% 20
East of England -124 46 £40,000 +3.23% 25
Yorkshire -40 37 £34,000 -36.57% 28
East Midlands -122 25 £38,750 -32.61% 15
Scotland -11 12 £28,000 -48.62% 13
Northern Ireland -34 6 £65,000 -
North East -29 3 £48,445 +21.11% 14
Wales -42 3 £28,000 -30.00%
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 85 (19.68%) SharePoint
2 82 (18.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 47 (10.88%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 182 (42.13%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (26.16%) Azure
3 101 (23.38%) Entra ID
4 24 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 21 (4.86%) AWS
6 15 (3.47%) SaaS
7 12 (2.78%) OCI
8 10 (2.31%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.39%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.16%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.93%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.69%) Asana
12 3 (0.69%) ClickUp
12 3 (0.69%) Stripe
13 2 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.46%) Rubrik
13 2 (0.46%) Serverless
13 2 (0.46%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 122 (28.24%) Firewall
2 96 (22.22%) LAN
3 93 (21.53%) DNS
4 89 (20.60%) WAN
5 85 (19.68%) VPN
6 81 (18.75%) DHCP
7 74 (17.13%) VLAN
8 60 (13.89%) VoIP
9 35 (8.10%) TCP/IP
10 34 (7.87%) Structured Cabling
11 32 (7.41%) Broadband
12 30 (6.94%) Internet
13 28 (6.48%) Wireless
14 27 (6.25%) Wireshark
15 24 (5.56%) Network Security
16 15 (3.47%) Bluetooth
17 14 (3.24%) SD-WAN
17 14 (3.24%) Unified Communications
18 12 (2.78%) NGFW
18 12 (2.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.16%) Power BI
3 3 (0.69%) MySQL
3 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.85%) JIRA
2 5 (1.16%) Git
3 4 (0.93%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.93%) Subversion
4 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.51%) Telecoms
3 36 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 32 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (5.56%) Retail
8 18 (4.17%) Finance
9 16 (3.70%) Marketing
10 15 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.24%) Law
12 13 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.62%) Advertising
13 7 (1.62%) Electronics
14 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.16%) Billing
16 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.69%) Legal
16 3 (0.69%) Social Housing
17 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (28.01%) IT Support
2 98 (22.69%) Support Engineer
3 88 (20.37%) IT Engineer
4 74 (17.13%) IT Support Engineer
5 52 (12.04%) 2nd Line Support
6 50 (11.57%) Support Technician
7 39 (9.03%) Senior
8 38 (8.80%) IT Technician
9 36 (8.33%) IT Support Technician
10 34 (7.87%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 29 (6.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 29 (6.71%) Field Engineer
12 26 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (6.02%) Network Engineer
13 25 (5.79%) Field Service Engineer
14 22 (5.09%) Sales Executive
15 21 (4.86%) Operations Manager
16 19 (4.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (3.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 17 (3.94%) Cabling Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.93%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.23%) .NET
2 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.23%) NumPy
2 1 (0.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.23%) SciPy
2 1 (0.23%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.74%) Driving Licence
2 35 (8.10%) Onboarding
3 31 (7.18%) Data Centre
4 28 (6.48%) EPoS
5 26 (6.02%) CCTV
6 25 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.47%) Mobile App
8 13 (3.01%) Fibre Optics
9 12 (2.78%) PKI
10 10 (2.31%) IoT
10 10 (2.31%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.62%) FMCG
11 7 (1.62%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.39%) Clustering
12 6 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.39%) iPad
12 6 (1.39%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (1.39%) Replication
12 6 (1.39%) Social Media
13 5 (1.16%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 150 (34.72%) Windows
2 81 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 71 (16.44%) Windows 10
4 30 (6.94%) Android
5 29 (6.71%) Apple iOS
5 29 (6.71%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.47%) Linux
7 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.23%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (19.68%) Customer Service
3 54 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (11.11%) ITIL
5 45 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (10.19%) Service Delivery
7 36 (8.33%) Coaching
7 36 (8.33%) Time Management
8 35 (8.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 34 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (6.71%) Mentoring
11 25 (5.79%) ITSM
12 24 (5.56%) Project Management
13 23 (5.32%) CRM
14 18 (4.17%) Cloud Security
14 18 (4.17%) Mobile Device Management
14 18 (4.17%) Network Monitoring
15 17 (3.94%) Business Development
16 15 (3.47%) Asset Management
16 15 (3.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 24 (5.56%) Python
3 15 (3.47%) SQL
4 5 (1.16%) C
4 5 (1.16%) Embedded C
5 2 (0.46%) Bicep
5 2 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.23%) C#
6 1 (0.23%) C++
6 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (9.49%) Degree
2 39 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (3.01%) CCNA
7 12 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.85%) CCNP
9 8 (1.85%) CIPD
10 7 (1.62%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.69%) MCSE
14 2 (0.46%) A+ Certification
14 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (4.86%) SLA
4 13 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (2.78%) GDPR
6 4 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.93%) QA
7 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 151 (34.95%) Active Directory
2 51 (11.81%) Hyper-V
3 37 (8.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.24%) BitLocker
5 11 (2.55%) Firmware
5 11 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.39%) vSphere
7 3 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 64 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.47%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (3.24%) SCCM
4 13 (3.01%) Terraform
5 12 (2.78%) Ansible
6 9 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 8 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.46%) Autotask
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 198 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.65%) VMware
3 36 (8.33%) Cisco
4 26 (6.02%) Apple
5 24 (5.56%) Meraki
6 19 (4.40%) Aruba
7 17 (3.94%) Veeam
8 14 (3.24%) Ubiquiti
9 12 (2.78%) Arista
9 12 (2.78%) NetScout
10 11 (2.55%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.31%) SonicWALL
11 10 (2.31%) Sophos
12 8 (1.85%) Dell
12 8 (1.85%) HP
13 7 (1.62%) Adobe
14 6 (1.39%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.39%) Google
14 6 (1.39%) TP-LINK
15 5 (1.16%) ConnectWise