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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 90 185
Rank change year-on-year -167 +95 -136
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 407 990 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 3.44% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.11% 20.80% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 331 199 847
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £23,800
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,000 £29,423
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +11.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%

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 6,665 4,759 9,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.18% 16.56% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 2,668 7,075
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £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 £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 12 May 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 12 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 -104 114 £43,750 +9.38% 86
North of England -23 106 £49,000 +44.12% 49
North West +24 74 £55,000 -18.52% 31
Midlands -134 68 £42,500 -11.46% 27
East of England -109 61 £41,845 -19.53% 30
West Midlands -8 38 £47,500 +5.56% 17
East Midlands -111 30 £34,000 -32.00% 10
South West -40 28 £48,459 -7.70% 38
Yorkshire -81 22 £38,750 +27.05% 14
Scotland +3 17 £75,000 +36.36% 15
Wales -25 11 £42,500 -14.57% 8
North East -30 10 £39,750 -29.77% 7
Northern Ireland -33 3 £40,000 - 1
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 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.11%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (11.55%) Azure
3 24 (5.90%) Entra ID
4 16 (3.93%) AWS
5 5 (1.23%) Google Workspace
6 2 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (0.49%) GCP
6 2 (0.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.25%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (20.64%) WAN
2 83 (20.39%) Firewall
3 80 (19.66%) VPN
4 70 (17.20%) LAN
5 36 (8.85%) VLAN
6 34 (8.35%) SD-WAN
7 33 (8.11%) DHCP
8 32 (7.86%) BGP
8 32 (7.86%) DNS
8 32 (7.86%) OSPF
9 31 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (7.37%) Network Security
11 29 (7.13%) TCP/IP
12 26 (6.39%) Bluetooth
13 21 (5.16%) Cisco Wireless
14 20 (4.91%) Broadband
14 20 (4.91%) WLAN
15 19 (4.67%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (4.67%) EIGRP
16 14 (3.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Git
2 5 (1.23%) JIRA
3 4 (0.98%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.98%) Subversion
4 2 (0.49%) GDB
4 2 (0.49%) GitLab
4 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 44 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 29 (7.13%) Electronics
5 18 (4.42%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.93%) Finance
7 15 (3.69%) Law
7 15 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.44%) Retail
9 11 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.21%) Automotive
11 8 (1.97%) Military
12 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.72%) Marketing
13 6 (1.47%) Welsh Language
14 5 (1.23%) Advertising
14 5 (1.23%) Legal
15 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (16.22%) Support Engineer
2 61 (14.99%) Senior
3 57 (14.00%) Network Engineer
4 48 (11.79%) IT Support
5 43 (10.57%) Software Engineer
6 42 (10.32%) IT Technician
7 32 (7.86%) IT Engineer
8 28 (6.88%) Embedded Engineer
9 26 (6.39%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (5.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 24 (5.90%) Senior IT Technician
10 24 (5.90%) Senior Technician
11 23 (5.65%) Technical Engineer
11 23 (5.65%) Technical Support
11 23 (5.65%) Technical Support Engineer
12 22 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
13 21 (5.16%) Support Technician
13 21 (5.16%) Systems Engineer
14 20 (4.91%) Administrator
15 19 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.97%) REST
2 2 (0.49%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.49%) pytest
2 2 (0.49%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (0.49%) Yocto
3 1 (0.25%) NumPy
3 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.25%) SciPy
3 1 (0.25%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (15.23%) Driving Licence
2 41 (10.07%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.39%) IoT
4 17 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.93%) Embedded Systems
6 13 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.46%) CCTV
7 10 (2.46%) Smart Home
8 8 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.47%) Raspberry Pi
10 5 (1.23%) Replication
11 4 (0.98%) ASIC
11 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.98%) Podcast
11 4 (0.98%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.74%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.74%) FPGA
12 3 (0.74%) NB-IoT
13 2 (0.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 115 (28.26%) Windows
2 75 (18.43%) Windows Server
3 23 (5.65%) Windows 10
4 19 (4.67%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.95%) Linux
6 9 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.47%) Android
7 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.23%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Rocky
10 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 51 (12.53%) Software Engineering
3 47 (11.55%) Customer Service
4 38 (9.34%) Root Cause Analysis
5 35 (8.60%) Service Delivery
6 32 (7.86%) ITIL
7 26 (6.39%) Time Management
8 23 (5.65%) Decision-Making
8 23 (5.65%) Logistics
8 23 (5.65%) Network Monitoring
9 22 (5.41%) Collaborative Working
9 22 (5.41%) Project Delivery
10 19 (4.67%) CRM
10 19 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (3.93%) Computer Science
12 16 (3.93%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (3.69%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (3.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.85%) Python
2 26 (6.39%) C++
3 22 (5.41%) C
4 12 (2.95%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.23%) Embedded C
5 5 (1.23%) VB
6 2 (0.49%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (15.23%) DBS Check
2 54 (13.27%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (11.30%) CCNP
3 46 (11.30%) Degree
4 23 (5.65%) Network+ Certification
5 19 (4.67%) A+ Certification
6 17 (4.18%) CCNA
7 13 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.70%) CCIE
9 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.97%) Security Cleared
11 7 (1.72%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.72%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.74%) HP APS
13 3 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.74%) MCSE
14 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.49%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.25%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.70%) SLA
2 8 (1.97%) PMO
3 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.98%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.74%) JTAG
6 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) QA
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (19.41%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.67%) Firmware
3 19 (4.67%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.46%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.97%) ProxySG
6 7 (1.72%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.46%) Ansible
3 9 (2.21%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.23%) SCCM
5 4 (0.98%) Backup Exec
5 4 (0.98%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.49%) Nagios
6 2 (0.49%) Terraform
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.25%) Nmap
7 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 117 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 88 (21.62%) Cisco
3 42 (10.32%) VMware
4 39 (9.58%) Fortinet
5 28 (6.88%) Aruba
6 26 (6.39%) Meraki
7 17 (4.18%) SolarWinds
8 15 (3.69%) CheckPoint
9 14 (3.44%) Palo Alto
9 14 (3.44%) Veeam
10 13 (3.19%) F5
11 10 (2.46%) Apple
11 10 (2.46%) Juniper
12 9 (2.21%) HP
12 9 (2.21%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.97%) Blue Coat
13 8 (1.97%) HubSpot
13 8 (1.97%) Infoblox
13 8 (1.97%) Motorola
14 6 (1.47%) Salesforce