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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 91 220
Rank change year-on-year -115 +129 -172
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 703 1,063 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 3.07% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.49% 18.66% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 543 230 433
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,450 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +11.77%
75th Percentile £69,390 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £63,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +6.95%

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 5,629 5,697 6,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.77% 16.47% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 3,041 3,578
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,968 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -2.91%

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 11 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 11 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 -69 241 £52,500 +31.25% 134
North of England +32 162 £44,000 +51.72% 57
Midlands -95 113 £42,500 -15.00% 39
East of England -102 91 £45,750 -16.44% 46
North West +30 89 £57,500 +74.24% 38
South West -47 71 £42,500 +6.25% 35
West Midlands +7 62 £42,500 -4.49% 21
Yorkshire -23 56 £35,000 +25.00% 14
East Midlands -93 51 £42,500 -22.02% 18
Scotland +4 20 £53,750 +5.39% 12
North East -52 17 £65,000 +124.14% 8
Wales -67 5 £34,000 -31.66% 4
Northern Ireland -79 1 £34,000 -42.37% 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 79 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 69 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.56%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (4.55%) Lightworks
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.57%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.43%) Simulink
6 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.85%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.14%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 164 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
2 114 (16.22%) Azure
3 63 (8.96%) Entra ID
4 30 (4.27%) AWS
5 14 (1.99%) OneDrive
6 9 (1.28%) Mimecast
7 6 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.71%) GCP
9 4 (0.57%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.57%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.57%) 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
1 182 (25.89%) Firewall
2 125 (17.78%) LAN
3 120 (17.07%) VPN
3 120 (17.07%) WAN
4 98 (13.94%) VLAN
5 87 (12.38%) Wi-Fi
6 80 (11.38%) Network Security
7 77 (10.95%) DNS
8 71 (10.10%) DHCP
9 65 (9.25%) TCP/IP
10 46 (6.54%) SD-WAN
11 42 (5.97%) 5G
12 40 (5.69%) Bluetooth
12 40 (5.69%) Broadband
13 31 (4.41%) OSPF
13 31 (4.41%) WLAN
14 30 (4.27%) BGP
15 28 (3.98%) VoIP
16 25 (3.56%) Cisco Wireless
17 21 (2.99%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.99%) 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 22 (3.13%) Git
2 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.85%) GDB
3 6 (0.85%) GitLab
3 6 (0.85%) JIRA
4 4 (0.57%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.43%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.28%) Maven
6 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 209 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 70 (9.96%) Telecoms
3 53 (7.54%) Electronics
4 52 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (5.55%) Manufacturing
6 36 (5.12%) Finance
7 34 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (2.56%) Retail
9 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.56%) Legal
12 10 (1.42%) Advertising
12 10 (1.42%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.28%) Marketing
14 8 (1.14%) Automotive
14 8 (1.14%) Law
15 7 (1.00%) Military
15 7 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 114 (16.22%) Support Engineer
2 104 (14.79%) IT Support
2 104 (14.79%) Network Engineer
3 99 (14.08%) Senior
4 86 (12.23%) IT Engineer
5 67 (9.53%) IT Support Engineer
6 64 (9.10%) Software Engineer
7 61 (8.68%) Embedded Engineer
8 53 (7.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 51 (7.25%) IT Technician
10 44 (6.26%) Systems Engineer
11 31 (4.41%) Technical Engineer
12 28 (3.98%) Support Technician
13 27 (3.84%) Technical Support
13 27 (3.84%) Technical Support Engineer
14 25 (3.56%) IT Support Technician
15 24 (3.41%) Lead
15 24 (3.41%) Senior IT Technician
15 24 (3.41%) Senior Technician
16 23 (3.27%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.28%) Yocto
2 8 (1.14%) .NET
2 8 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 8 (1.14%) Terraform
2 8 (1.14%) WinForms
3 4 (0.57%) pytest
3 4 (0.57%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (0.43%) Flash
4 3 (0.43%) Jinja
4 3 (0.43%) JSON
4 3 (0.43%) YAML
5 2 (0.28%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.14%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 94 (13.37%) Driving Licence
2 40 (5.69%) Data Centre
2 40 (5.69%) IoT
3 36 (5.12%) Embedded Systems
3 36 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.13%) CCTV
6 24 (3.41%) FPGA
7 20 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.28%) Device Driver
9 15 (2.13%) ASIC
9 15 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.71%) Raspberry Pi
11 9 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.28%) PMI
11 9 (1.28%) Smart Home
12 8 (1.14%) ARM Cortex
13 7 (1.00%) Clustering
13 7 (1.00%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.71%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 180 (25.60%) Windows
2 135 (19.20%) Windows Server
3 32 (4.55%) Linux
4 30 (4.27%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.56%) Apple iOS
6 16 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (2.13%) FreeRTOS
7 15 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (1.71%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (1.71%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.57%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (14.08%) Customer Service
3 98 (13.94%) Software Engineering
4 93 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
5 60 (8.53%) Project Delivery
6 53 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 49 (6.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 46 (6.54%) ITIL
9 44 (6.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 44 (6.26%) Service Delivery
10 43 (6.12%) Mentoring
11 40 (5.69%) Collaborative Culture
12 35 (4.98%) Migration
13 34 (4.84%) Validation
14 32 (4.55%) Network Design
15 30 (4.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (4.13%) Decision-Making
17 28 (3.98%) CI/CD
17 28 (3.98%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 58 (8.25%) Python
2 56 (7.97%) C
3 45 (6.40%) PowerShell
4 44 (6.26%) C++
5 18 (2.56%) Embedded C
6 10 (1.42%) Ruby
6 10 (1.42%) SQL
7 8 (1.14%) C#
8 6 (0.85%) Bash
8 6 (0.85%) MATLAB
9 5 (0.71%) Rust
10 3 (0.43%) VB
11 2 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.14%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 88 (12.52%) Cisco Certification
2 87 (12.38%) Degree
3 57 (8.11%) CCNP
3 57 (8.11%) DBS Check
4 46 (6.54%) CCNA
5 29 (4.13%) Network+ Certification
6 20 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.70%) A+ Certification
8 18 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.99%) Security Cleared
10 12 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.56%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.42%) SC Cleared
13 9 (1.28%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.71%) CCIE
14 5 (0.71%) HNC
15 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (0.43%) CISSP
17 2 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
1 20 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (1.99%) SLA
3 12 (1.71%) GDPR
3 12 (1.71%) JTAG
4 7 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.85%) QA
6 4 (0.57%) ISO 26262
7 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.43%) ECSS
7 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 153 (21.76%) Active Directory
2 86 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (8.39%) Hyper-V
4 40 (5.69%) Firmware
5 16 (2.28%) vSphere
6 11 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.14%) KVM
10 1 (0.14%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (2.42%) FortiGate
3 12 (1.71%) Ansible
4 5 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.43%) SCCM
5 3 (0.43%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.14%) WSUS
7 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 225 (32.01%) Microsoft
2 141 (20.06%) Cisco
3 91 (12.94%) VMware
4 67 (9.53%) Fortinet
5 65 (9.25%) Aruba
6 36 (5.12%) Meraki
7 32 (4.55%) Juniper
8 26 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 26 (3.70%) Ubiquiti
9 18 (2.56%) HP
10 16 (2.28%) Veeam
11 12 (1.71%) CheckPoint
11 12 (1.71%) F5
12 10 (1.42%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.28%) SonicWALL
13 9 (1.28%) Sophos
13 9 (1.28%) WatchGuard
14 8 (1.14%) Apple
14 8 (1.14%) SolarWinds
15 7 (1.00%) Ruckus Wireless