Wireless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 54 138
Rank change year-on-year -133 +84 +52
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,060 3,317 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.51% 5.37% 2.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.85% 30.03% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 867 529 694
10th Percentile £23,000 £22,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,686 £29,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% -7.03%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wireless is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,766 11,047 10,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.94% 17.88% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 4,889 6,514
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -59 338 £36,500 +4.29% 86
North of England -140 216 £40,000 -11.11% 55
Midlands -125 145 £45,000 +28.57% 32
East of England -74 140 £60,000 +33.33% 46
North West -114 129 £40,000 -11.11% 30
South West -106 119 £37,500 +15.38% 48
Scotland -104 108 £52,500 +16.67% 35
West Midlands -86 101 £51,250 +57.69% 17
Yorkshire -70 88 £33,625 -25.28% 22
East Midlands -114 38 £39,000 -13.33% 15
Wales -35 30 £35,000 -12.50% 3
North East -84 14 £39,500 +5.33% 5
Northern Ireland +1 4 £37,500 +3.45% 3
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 123 (11.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.32%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.66%) IIS
5 6 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2000
6 5 (0.47%) Apache
6 5 (0.47%) SAS
7 4 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.38%) WordPress
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.094%) nginx
Applications
1 118 (11.13%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.47%) Simulink
6 4 (0.38%) OrCAD
7 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.094%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 279 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 210 (19.81%) Azure
3 62 (5.85%) AWS
4 57 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 47 (4.43%) Google Workspace
6 21 (1.98%) OneDrive
7 16 (1.51%) IaaS
8 15 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (1.23%) GCP
10 7 (0.66%) AWS IoT
11 6 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.57%) Dropbox
11 6 (0.57%) PaaS
11 6 (0.57%) Twilio
12 5 (0.47%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.47%) GitHub
12 5 (0.47%) Serverless
13 4 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 309 (29.15%) Firewall
2 266 (25.09%) LAN
3 239 (22.55%) WAN
4 214 (20.19%) Wi-Fi
5 135 (12.74%) TCP/IP
6 130 (12.26%) DNS
7 115 (10.85%) VPN
8 108 (10.19%) DHCP
9 78 (7.36%) Internet
10 72 (6.79%) OSPF
11 71 (6.70%) SD-WAN
12 70 (6.60%) Bluetooth
12 70 (6.60%) MPLS
13 67 (6.32%) BGP
13 67 (6.32%) VLAN
14 61 (5.75%) Ethernet
14 61 (5.75%) Network Security
15 56 (5.28%) LTE
15 56 (5.28%) VoIP
16 45 (4.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.66%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.38%) MySQL
5 3 (0.28%) Power BI
6 2 (0.19%) Big Data
6 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.19%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.094%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.094%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.094%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.094%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (2.64%) Git
2 24 (2.26%) JIRA
3 22 (2.08%) LabVIEW
4 10 (0.94%) Subversion
5 8 (0.75%) Burp Suite
5 8 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.75%) Metasploit
6 6 (0.57%) GDB
7 5 (0.47%) Xcode
8 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.19%) PetaLinux
10 1 (0.094%) GitLab
10 1 (0.094%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.094%) TeamCity
General
1 327 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 117 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 105 (9.91%) Electronics
3 105 (9.91%) Telecoms
4 92 (8.68%) Finance
5 82 (7.74%) Manufacturing
6 64 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.40%) Retail
9 26 (2.45%) Legal
9 26 (2.45%) Marketing
9 26 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.36%) Games
11 19 (1.79%) Automotive
11 19 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
12 16 (1.51%) Law
13 14 (1.32%) Local Government
14 13 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.13%) Military
16 11 (1.04%) Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (17.08%) Senior
2 165 (15.57%) Network Engineer
3 150 (14.15%) IT Support
4 142 (13.40%) Embedded Engineer
5 137 (12.92%) Support Engineer
6 99 (9.34%) Software Engineer
7 93 (8.77%) IT Engineer
8 78 (7.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 75 (7.08%) IT Support Engineer
10 70 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 65 (6.13%) IT Technician
11 65 (6.13%) Support Technician
12 63 (5.94%) Analyst
13 55 (5.19%) Senior Network Engineer
14 46 (4.34%) IT Support Technician
15 43 (4.06%) Hardware Engineer
15 43 (4.06%) Junior
15 43 (4.06%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 40 (3.77%) Technical Support
17 39 (3.68%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.70%) Yocto
2 15 (1.42%) 802.1X
3 12 (1.13%) REST
4 8 (0.75%) React
5 6 (0.57%) HTML
5 6 (0.57%) HTML5
5 6 (0.57%) Redux
6 5 (0.47%) Apache Cordova
6 5 (0.47%) Core Animation
6 5 (0.47%) Core Data
6 5 (0.47%) RESTful
7 4 (0.38%) Flash
7 4 (0.38%) LAMP
8 3 (0.28%) .NET
8 3 (0.28%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.28%) OAuth
8 3 (0.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.25%) Driving Licence
2 78 (7.36%) Data Centre
3 66 (6.23%) IoT
4 55 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.87%) Embedded Systems
6 39 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 38 (3.58%) CCTV
8 23 (2.17%) Device Driver
8 23 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.08%) Acoustics
9 22 (2.08%) Satnav
10 21 (1.98%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 20 (1.89%) Replication
12 13 (1.23%) FPGA
13 12 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
13 12 (1.13%) Clustering
14 10 (0.94%) Analogue Electronics
14 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 333 (31.42%) Windows
2 151 (14.25%) Windows Server
3 131 (12.36%) Linux
4 84 (7.92%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.43%) Apple iOS
5 47 (4.43%) Embedded Linux
6 44 (4.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 43 (4.06%) Mac OS
8 36 (3.40%) Android
8 36 (3.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (1.79%) VyOS
11 17 (1.60%) Mac OS X
12 10 (0.94%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.75%) Windows 8
14 7 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
14 7 (0.66%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.57%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (15.47%) Software Engineering
3 148 (13.96%) Customer Service
4 112 (10.57%) Agile
5 98 (9.25%) ITIL
6 89 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 84 (7.92%) Computer Science
8 74 (6.98%) Mathematics
9 53 (5.00%) Project Delivery
10 52 (4.91%) Coaching
11 49 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (4.43%) Mentoring
12 47 (4.43%) Project Management
13 46 (4.34%) Physics
14 40 (3.77%) Service Delivery
14 40 (3.77%) Service Management
15 39 (3.68%) Kalman Filter
15 39 (3.68%) Network Management
15 39 (3.68%) Test Automation
16 36 (3.40%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (15.19%) C
2 95 (8.96%) Python
3 91 (8.58%) Embedded C
4 68 (6.42%) PowerShell
5 43 (4.06%) C++
6 31 (2.92%) SQL
7 22 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.89%) C#
9 16 (1.51%) Bash
10 12 (1.13%) Java
11 10 (0.94%) Assembly Language
12 9 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.57%) Swift
14 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.47%) VB
15 3 (0.28%) Perl
16 2 (0.19%) PHP
16 2 (0.19%) R
16 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.094%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 210 (19.81%) Degree
2 154 (14.53%) Cisco Certification
3 123 (11.60%) CCNA
4 86 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 70 (6.60%) SC Cleared
6 59 (5.57%) CCNP
7 48 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (4.06%) DBS Check
9 31 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
10 28 (2.64%) JNCIA
11 26 (2.45%) CCIE
12 23 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.79%) MCITP
14 16 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.23%) MCP
16 12 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (1.04%) MCSA
18 9 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.34%) SLA
2 33 (3.11%) GDPR
3 15 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (0.94%) QA
6 8 (0.75%) IEC 62304
6 8 (0.75%) ISO 13485
6 8 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 8 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.66%) JTAG
8 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.57%) MISRA
9 4 (0.38%) Automotive SPICE
9 4 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
9 4 (0.38%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.38%) NIST
10 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.094%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.094%) SOC 3
System Software
1 228 (21.51%) Active Directory
2 128 (12.08%) Firmware
3 95 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (8.58%) Hyper-V
5 51 (4.81%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.89%) vSphere
7 13 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.66%) XenApp
9 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.47%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.47%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.19%) Docker
12 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.094%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.094%) NFS
13 1 (0.094%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 75 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (4.15%) SCCM
3 21 (1.98%) Ansible
4 16 (1.51%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.32%) SmoothWall
6 13 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 13 (1.23%) ServiceCenter
7 9 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.85%) SCOM
7 9 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (0.75%) Nmap
8 8 (0.75%) Terraform
8 8 (0.75%) WSUS
9 7 (0.66%) PaperCut
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.47%) Opsview
11 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.38%) Autotask
11 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 325 (30.66%) Microsoft
2 258 (24.34%) Cisco
3 136 (12.83%) VMware
4 86 (8.11%) Aruba
5 81 (7.64%) Fortinet
6 73 (6.89%) Meraki
7 64 (6.04%) Google
8 63 (5.94%) Apple
9 57 (5.38%) Juniper
10 55 (5.19%) Palo Alto
11 47 (4.43%) Ruckus Wireless
12 43 (4.06%) Veeam
13 39 (3.68%) HP
14 34 (3.21%) Citrix
15 32 (3.02%) CheckPoint
16 28 (2.64%) Nokia
17 21 (1.98%) Draytek
18 19 (1.79%) Sophos
18 19 (1.79%) Vyatta
19 17 (1.60%) EMC