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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 156 176
Rank change year-on-year -73 +20 +79
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 337 642 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.79% 1.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.47% 13.08% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 256 226 543
10th Percentile £27,700 £29,000 £25,100
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,875 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +24.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -2.17%

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 7,546 4,908 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.88% 13.68% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,806 2,444 4,367
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,625
25th Percentile £27,694 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -4.76%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -14 142 £40,000 -15.79% 95
North of England -30 42 £29,000 -27.50% 67
Scotland +21 39 £51,000 +36.00% 20
East of England -55 38 £57,500 +4.55% 50
Midlands -60 38 £51,250 -5.09% 44
West Midlands -9 34 £55,000 +1.85% 23
South West -2 21 £38,526 -29.95% 44
North West -2 18 £30,000 -45.45% 34
North East +3 14 £29,000 -63.75% 11
Yorkshire -34 10 £28,000 -6.67% 24
Wales -12 9 £42,500 -3.41% 18
Northern Ireland - 8 £64,500 - 6
East Midlands -70 4 £36,750 +20.73% 21
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 27 (8.01%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.78%) Confluence
4 4 (1.19%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) CMS
5 2 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.59%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.30%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 105 (31.16%) Azure
2 89 (26.41%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (8.61%) Entra ID
4 19 (5.64%) AWS
5 10 (2.97%) OneDrive
6 7 (2.08%) GCP
7 6 (1.78%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.78%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.78%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.78%) Serverless
8 5 (1.48%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.19%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Ads
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (33.23%) Firewall
2 84 (24.93%) WAN
3 83 (24.63%) LAN
4 70 (20.77%) VPN
5 61 (18.10%) DHCP
6 59 (17.51%) VLAN
7 58 (17.21%) DNS
8 43 (12.76%) TCP/IP
9 38 (11.28%) SD-WAN
10 31 (9.20%) VoIP
11 28 (8.31%) Wireshark
12 27 (8.01%) BGP
12 27 (8.01%) Internet
13 25 (7.42%) OSPF
14 20 (5.93%) WLAN
15 19 (5.64%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (5.34%) MPLS
16 18 (5.34%) Network Security
17 17 (5.04%) EIGRP
18 15 (4.45%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.30%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 10 (2.97%) JIRA
2 2 (0.59%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.59%) Git
2 2 (0.59%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 122 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.24%) Telecoms
3 37 (10.98%) Electronics
4 34 (10.09%) Finance
5 33 (9.79%) Manufacturing
6 32 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.34%) Retail
8 14 (4.15%) Law
9 12 (3.56%) Automotive
10 9 (2.67%) Marketing
10 9 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.78%) Military
11 6 (1.78%) Welsh Language
12 5 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.48%) Legal
13 4 (1.19%) Billing
13 4 (1.19%) Wearables
14 3 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.89%) Games
15 2 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 57 (16.91%) Support Engineer
2 48 (14.24%) Network Engineer
3 47 (13.95%) IT Support
4 36 (10.68%) Software Engineer
5 34 (10.09%) Technical Engineer
6 32 (9.50%) Technical Support
7 31 (9.20%) IT Engineer
8 28 (8.31%) 2nd Line Support
8 28 (8.31%) Technical Support Engineer
9 25 (7.42%) Senior
10 24 (7.12%) Embedded Engineer
10 24 (7.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (6.23%) Analyst
11 21 (6.23%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (5.34%) 3rd Line Support
13 15 (4.45%) Support Analyst
14 13 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.56%) Lead
16 11 (3.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.08%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.78%) REST
3 2 (0.59%) Web Services
4 1 (0.30%) NumPy
4 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.30%) SciPy
4 1 (0.30%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.61%) Management Information System
3 25 (7.42%) IoT
4 23 (6.82%) Driving Licence
5 19 (5.64%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.15%) Embedded Systems
7 12 (3.56%) e-Learning
8 11 (3.26%) MicroBlaze
8 11 (3.26%) RISC-V
9 10 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.48%) CCTV
11 5 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.19%) Clustering
12 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.89%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (23.15%) Windows
2 43 (12.76%) Windows Server
3 30 (8.90%) Linux
4 22 (6.53%) Apple iOS
5 17 (5.04%) Android
6 15 (4.45%) Mac OS
7 12 (3.56%) Windows 10
8 11 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (23.74%) Customer Service
2 63 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (11.28%) Software Engineering
4 35 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (9.79%) Change Management
6 31 (9.20%) Mentoring
7 27 (8.01%) ITIL
7 27 (8.01%) Network Monitoring
8 26 (7.72%) Agile
8 26 (7.72%) Collaborative Working
9 24 (7.12%) Asset Management
9 24 (7.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (7.12%) Load Balancing
10 22 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (6.23%) Coaching
11 21 (6.23%) Project Delivery
12 20 (5.93%) Network Virtualisation
12 20 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 19 (5.64%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.50%) C++
2 29 (8.61%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.61%) Python
3 23 (6.82%) C
4 2 (0.59%) SQL
4 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.30%) Bash
5 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (11.87%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (9.79%) CCNP
3 29 (8.61%) Degree
4 22 (6.53%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.93%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.15%) CCNA
7 9 (2.67%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.48%) CCIE
8 5 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.19%) ACMT
9 4 (1.19%) GCSC
9 4 (1.19%) JNCIA
9 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.59%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.59%) GPEN
11 2 (0.59%) HND
11 2 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.08%) SLA
2 6 (1.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.78%) GDPR
3 5 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.48%) QA
4 4 (1.19%) PMO
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.30%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (24.93%) Active Directory
2 45 (13.35%) Hyper-V
3 38 (11.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (8.31%) Firmware
5 13 (3.86%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.78%) vSphere
8 5 (1.48%) Docker
9 4 (1.19%) ProxySG
9 4 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (12.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.23%) FortiGate
3 16 (4.75%) Ansible
4 9 (2.67%) Autotask
5 8 (2.37%) Terraform
6 5 (1.48%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.19%) Grafana
7 4 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.19%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.59%) Nmap
9 1 (0.30%) Nessus
9 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.30%) SCCM
9 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 123 (36.50%) Microsoft
2 91 (27.00%) Cisco
3 49 (14.54%) Meraki
4 41 (12.17%) VMware
5 36 (10.68%) Palo Alto
6 33 (9.79%) Fortinet
7 31 (9.20%) SolarWinds
8 23 (6.82%) CheckPoint
9 22 (6.53%) Aruba
10 19 (5.64%) Apple
10 19 (5.64%) SonicWALL
10 19 (5.64%) Veeam
11 13 (3.86%) Sophos
12 11 (3.26%) F5
12 11 (3.26%) HP
12 11 (3.26%) WatchGuard
13 10 (2.97%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.67%) Samsung
15 8 (2.37%) Juniper
16 6 (1.78%) Sage