Wireless Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Wireless
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 239 179
Rank change year-on-year -13 -60 -125
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 401 320 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.19% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.02% 7.99% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 327 199 867
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,599 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +7.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wireless 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 7,985 4,005 9,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.42% 14.89% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,888 2,648 7,114
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £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 £58,063 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -6.86%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Wireless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Wireless job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
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 Wireless within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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 -13 123 £48,000 +20.00% 85
North of England -36 102 £40,000 +17.65% 53
North West -1 72 £52,500 -22.22% 22
Midlands -28 60 £40,000 -23.08% 22
East of England -21 58 £41,191 -25.11% 38
West Midlands -9 36 £52,500 -19.23% 14
East Midlands -59 24 £34,000 -24.44% 8
Scotland -14 21 £75,000 +65.75% 20
South West -54 21 £54,417 +22.29% 26
Yorkshire -85 20 £34,500 +15.00% 23
Wales -25 11 £42,500 -1.16% 7
North East -38 10 £39,750 +6.00% 13
Northern Ireland - 6 £63,750 - 3
Wireless
UK

Wireless
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 21 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.49%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 95 (23.69%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (13.47%) Azure
3 23 (5.74%) Entra ID
4 21 (5.24%) AWS
5 5 (1.25%) GCP
5 5 (1.25%) Google Workspace
6 3 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 97 (24.19%) Firewall
2 94 (23.44%) WAN
3 84 (20.95%) VPN
4 77 (19.20%) LAN
5 41 (10.22%) DHCP
6 40 (9.98%) DNS
6 40 (9.98%) VLAN
7 39 (9.73%) SD-WAN
8 36 (8.98%) BGP
9 34 (8.48%) OSPF
9 34 (8.48%) TCP/IP
10 29 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (6.48%) Network Security
12 23 (5.74%) Bluetooth
12 23 (5.74%) EIGRP
12 23 (5.74%) WLAN
13 21 (5.24%) Cisco Wireless
14 20 (4.99%) Broadband
15 19 (4.74%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (4.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.75%) JIRA
2 5 (1.25%) Git
3 4 (1.00%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.00%) Subversion
4 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (7.23%) Electronics
4 26 (6.48%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.99%) Retail
6 19 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.74%) Finance
7 15 (3.74%) Law
8 14 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.00%) Military
11 7 (1.75%) Automotive
11 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 6 (1.50%) Welsh Language
13 5 (1.25%) Advertising
13 5 (1.25%) Legal
14 4 (1.00%) Wearables
15 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (15.46%) Senior
2 57 (14.21%) Network Engineer
3 56 (13.97%) Support Engineer
4 54 (13.47%) IT Support
5 42 (10.47%) IT Technician
6 38 (9.48%) Software Engineer
7 33 (8.23%) IT Engineer
8 27 (6.73%) IT Support Engineer
9 24 (5.99%) Embedded Engineer
9 24 (5.99%) Senior IT Technician
9 24 (5.99%) Senior Technician
10 23 (5.74%) 2nd Line Support
11 22 (5.49%) Senior Network Engineer
12 21 (5.24%) Support Technician
13 20 (4.99%) Administrator
13 20 (4.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 20 (4.99%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (4.74%) Trainee
15 18 (4.49%) Network Administrator
15 18 (4.49%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.00%) REST
2 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.50%) Web Services
3 1 (0.25%) NumPy
3 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.25%) SciPy
3 1 (0.25%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.72%) Driving Licence
2 44 (10.97%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.73%) IoT
4 21 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.24%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.49%) Smart Home
8 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.00%) CCTV
10 6 (1.50%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.25%) Replication
12 4 (1.00%) ASIC
12 4 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (1.00%) Podcast
12 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) NB-IoT
13 3 (0.75%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 120 (29.93%) Windows
2 77 (19.20%) Windows Server
3 22 (5.49%) Windows 10
4 21 (5.24%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.99%) Linux
5 12 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.00%) Android
7 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.25%) CentOS
11 1 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Unix
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (13.97%) Customer Service
3 45 (11.22%) Software Engineering
4 43 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (8.48%) Service Delivery
6 29 (7.23%) ITIL
7 26 (6.48%) Root Cause Analysis
8 25 (6.23%) Time Management
9 24 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (5.74%) Collaborative Working
10 23 (5.74%) Logistics
11 22 (5.49%) Project Delivery
12 20 (4.99%) Network Monitoring
13 19 (4.74%) CRM
13 19 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (4.24%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (3.99%) Decision-Making
15 16 (3.99%) ITSM
15 16 (3.99%) Kalman Filter
15 16 (3.99%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.48%) Python
2 24 (5.99%) C++
3 20 (4.99%) C
3 20 (4.99%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.25%) Embedded C
4 5 (1.25%) VB
5 2 (0.50%) SQL
5 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 58 (14.46%) DBS Check
2 53 (13.22%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (11.47%) CCNP
4 45 (11.22%) Degree
5 21 (5.24%) Network+ Certification
6 19 (4.74%) A+ Certification
7 15 (3.74%) CCNA
8 11 (2.74%) CCIE
9 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.75%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.75%) Security Cleared
11 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.50%) HP APS
14 1 (0.25%) CHECK Team Member
14 1 (0.25%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.49%) SLA
2 8 (2.00%) PMO
3 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.00%) ISO 26262
4 4 (1.00%) QA
5 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) JTAG
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (21.20%) Active Directory
2 45 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.73%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.99%) Firmware
5 10 (2.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (2.00%) ProxySG
7 6 (1.50%) vSphere
8 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.74%) Ansible
3 9 (2.24%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.75%) Terraform
5 4 (1.00%) Backup Exec
5 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
6 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.75%) SCCM
7 2 (0.50%) Nagios
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.25%) Nmap
8 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 129 (32.17%) Microsoft
2 90 (22.44%) Cisco
3 47 (11.72%) VMware
4 44 (10.97%) Fortinet
5 31 (7.73%) Meraki
6 30 (7.48%) Aruba
7 21 (5.24%) SolarWinds
8 16 (3.99%) F5
8 16 (3.99%) Palo Alto
9 15 (3.74%) CheckPoint
10 13 (3.24%) Juniper
11 12 (2.99%) Veeam
12 11 (2.74%) ServiceNow
13 10 (2.49%) Apple
13 10 (2.49%) HP
14 8 (2.00%) Blue Coat
14 8 (2.00%) HubSpot
14 8 (2.00%) Infoblox
14 8 (2.00%) Motorola
15 6 (1.50%) Salesforce