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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 91 200
Rank change year-on-year -115 +109 -144
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 708 1,060 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 3.09% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.59% 18.70% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 532 226 411
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +7.53%

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 5,623 5,669 6,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.68% 16.50% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,645 3,010 3,440
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,781 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,075 £67,500 £72,439
UK median annual salary £48,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% -0.50%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -58 249 £52,500 +31.25% 178
North of England +19 162 £55,000 +89.66% 90
Midlands -97 112 £44,000 -12.00% 57
East of England -102 93 £45,750 -16.44% 72
North West +27 89 £65,000 +96.97% 63
South West -46 71 £42,500 +6.25% 51
West Midlands -1 60 £44,000 -1.12% 32
Yorkshire -17 55 £40,000 +42.86% 16
East Midlands -102 52 £42,500 -22.02% 25
Scotland -3 19 £55,000 +7.84% 24
North East -59 18 £65,000 +124.14% 13
Wales -74 3 £35,000 -29.65% 5
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 82 (11.58%) SharePoint
2 75 (10.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.69%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (4.80%) Lightworks
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.56%) Simulink
5 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.85%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 169 (23.87%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (16.38%) Azure
3 68 (9.60%) Entra ID
4 29 (4.10%) AWS
5 14 (1.98%) OneDrive
6 9 (1.27%) Mimecast
7 6 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.71%) GCP
8 5 (0.71%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.56%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.56%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.28%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.28%) SaaS
10 2 (0.28%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.14%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 187 (26.41%) Firewall
2 129 (18.22%) LAN
3 122 (17.23%) WAN
4 118 (16.67%) VPN
5 102 (14.41%) VLAN
6 90 (12.71%) Wi-Fi
7 86 (12.15%) Network Security
8 82 (11.58%) DNS
9 76 (10.73%) DHCP
10 67 (9.46%) TCP/IP
11 47 (6.64%) SD-WAN
12 46 (6.50%) 5G
13 41 (5.79%) Bluetooth
14 39 (5.51%) Broadband
15 31 (4.38%) WLAN
16 30 (4.24%) OSPF
17 29 (4.10%) BGP
17 29 (4.10%) VoIP
18 25 (3.53%) Cisco Wireless
19 22 (3.11%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.28%) Power BI
3 1 (0.14%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.14%) MySQL
3 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.25%) Git
2 8 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.85%) GDB
3 6 (0.85%) GitLab
4 5 (0.71%) JIRA
5 4 (0.56%) PetaLinux
5 4 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.28%) Maven
6 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 214 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 72 (10.17%) Telecoms
3 54 (7.63%) Electronics
4 52 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (5.65%) Manufacturing
6 37 (5.23%) Finance
7 36 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.82%) Retail
9 18 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.69%) Advertising
10 12 (1.69%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.55%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.41%) Legal
13 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.27%) Marketing
13 9 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.13%) Automotive
14 8 (1.13%) Law
15 7 (0.99%) Military
16 5 (0.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 114 (16.10%) Support Engineer
2 107 (15.11%) IT Support
2 107 (15.11%) Network Engineer
3 99 (13.98%) Senior
4 86 (12.15%) IT Engineer
5 69 (9.75%) Software Engineer
6 67 (9.46%) IT Support Engineer
7 64 (9.04%) Embedded Engineer
8 56 (7.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 53 (7.49%) IT Technician
10 44 (6.21%) Systems Engineer
11 31 (4.38%) Technical Engineer
12 29 (4.10%) Lead
12 29 (4.10%) Support Technician
13 27 (3.81%) IT Support Technician
13 27 (3.81%) Technical Support
13 27 (3.81%) Technical Support Engineer
14 24 (3.39%) Senior IT Technician
14 24 (3.39%) Senior Technician
14 24 (3.39%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.54%) Yocto
2 9 (1.27%) .NET
2 9 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 9 (1.27%) WinForms
3 8 (1.13%) Terraform
4 4 (0.56%) pytest
4 4 (0.56%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (0.42%) Flash
5 3 (0.42%) Jinja
5 3 (0.42%) JSON
5 3 (0.42%) YAML
6 2 (0.28%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.14%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 100 (14.12%) Driving Licence
2 42 (5.93%) IoT
3 39 (5.51%) Data Centre
4 38 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.23%) Embedded Systems
6 32 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (4.24%) CCTV
8 26 (3.67%) FPGA
9 22 (3.11%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.26%) ASIC
10 16 (2.26%) Device Driver
11 15 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.98%) Raspberry Pi
13 10 (1.41%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.27%) PMI
15 8 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
15 8 (1.13%) Smart Home
16 7 (0.99%) Clustering
16 7 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.99%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 185 (26.13%) Windows
2 139 (19.63%) Windows Server
3 33 (4.66%) Linux
4 30 (4.24%) Windows 10
5 17 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 17 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (2.12%) FreeRTOS
6 15 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.71%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (14.69%) Software Engineering
3 99 (13.98%) Customer Service
4 95 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (8.90%) Project Delivery
6 60 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
7 55 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 53 (7.49%) Disaster Recovery
9 48 (6.78%) ITIL
9 48 (6.78%) Mentoring
10 46 (6.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 45 (6.36%) Service Delivery
12 40 (5.65%) Migration
13 39 (5.51%) Collaborative Culture
14 35 (4.94%) Network Design
15 33 (4.66%) Validation
16 32 (4.52%) CI/CD
17 30 (4.24%) Decision-Making
17 30 (4.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (4.10%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (8.62%) C
2 60 (8.47%) Python
3 49 (6.92%) C++
4 45 (6.36%) PowerShell
5 20 (2.82%) Embedded C
6 11 (1.55%) Ruby
7 10 (1.41%) SQL
8 9 (1.27%) C#
9 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
10 6 (0.85%) Bash
10 6 (0.85%) Rust
11 3 (0.42%) VB
12 2 (0.28%) Bicep
12 2 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.14%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (13.14%) Cisco Certification
2 86 (12.15%) Degree
3 60 (8.47%) CCNP
4 58 (8.19%) DBS Check
5 48 (6.78%) CCNA
6 20 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.12%) Security Cleared
9 11 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.55%) SC Cleared
10 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.71%) CCIE
12 5 (0.71%) HNC
13 4 (0.56%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.42%) CISSP
15 2 (0.28%) HP APS
15 2 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 20 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (1.69%) GDPR
3 11 (1.55%) JTAG
3 11 (1.55%) SLA
4 7 (0.99%) ISO 9001
4 7 (0.99%) QA
5 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.56%) ECSS
5 4 (0.56%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.42%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 158 (22.32%) Active Directory
2 94 (13.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (8.62%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.79%) Firmware
5 18 (2.54%) vSphere
6 10 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.14%) KVM
9 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.82%) FortiGate
3 12 (1.69%) Ansible
4 5 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.56%) SCCM
6 3 (0.42%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.14%) WSUS
8 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 233 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 151 (21.33%) Cisco
3 99 (13.98%) VMware
4 70 (9.89%) Aruba
4 70 (9.89%) Fortinet
5 44 (6.21%) Meraki
6 33 (4.66%) Juniper
7 27 (3.81%) Ubiquiti
8 26 (3.67%) Palo Alto
9 19 (2.68%) HP
10 16 (2.26%) Veeam
11 11 (1.55%) CheckPoint
11 11 (1.55%) F5
11 11 (1.55%) Ruckus Wireless
12 10 (1.41%) Apple
13 9 (1.27%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.27%) SonicWALL
13 9 (1.27%) Sophos
13 9 (1.27%) WatchGuard
14 7 (0.99%) Google