Wireless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 197 49
Rank change year-on-year +76 -148 +125
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 992 1,096 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.47% 1.36% 5.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.43% 10.92% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 184 858 515
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,350 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £29,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £41,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +9.21% -12.14%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £51,063
90th Percentile £70,500 £70,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

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 7,978 10,037 10,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.84% 12.46% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,919 7,083 4,509
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.21% -1.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,240 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -6.86% -2.86%

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 24 June 2025.

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 24 June 2025. 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
East of England +72 338 £45,000 -25.00% 78
South East +56 302 £40,000 +6.67% 195
Midlands +117 210 £45,000 +3.45% 80
East Midlands +127 192 £50,000 +35.14% 24
North of England -54 98 £30,000 -25.00% 174
Yorkshire +10 50 £29,000 -17.14% 59
North West -86 40 £33,000 -22.35% 97
South West +23 28 £29,500 -21.33% 84
West Midlands +6 18 £34,000 -35.24% 56
Scotland +4 10 £40,000 -23.81% 70
North East +44 8 £29,000 -26.58% 19
Wales +18 4 £48,117 +20.29% 18
Northern Ireland +38 2 £47,500 +26.67% 11
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 34 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.81%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (6.25%) Azure
3 24 (2.42%) Entra ID
4 15 (1.51%) OneDrive
5 9 (0.91%) AWS
6 6 (0.60%) Azure Storage
7 5 (0.50%) Power Automate
7 5 (0.50%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.50%) PowerApps
7 5 (0.50%) Serverless
8 4 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.20%) Amazon Ads
9 2 (0.20%) Facebook Ads
9 2 (0.20%) Google Ads
9 2 (0.20%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.20%) IaaS
10 1 (0.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.10%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.10%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 747 (75.30%) Wi-Fi
2 730 (73.59%) LTE
3 728 (73.39%) Bluetooth
4 722 (72.78%) 5G
4 722 (72.78%) GSM
5 721 (72.68%) UMTS
6 91 (9.17%) LAN
7 79 (7.96%) WAN
8 63 (6.35%) Firewall
9 38 (3.83%) VPN
10 36 (3.63%) TCP/IP
11 35 (3.53%) DHCP
12 33 (3.33%) DNS
13 32 (3.23%) Internet
14 27 (2.72%) VLAN
15 24 (2.42%) Software-Defined Radio
15 24 (2.42%) WLAN
16 21 (2.12%) Unified Communications
17 19 (1.92%) OSPF
18 18 (1.81%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.20%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Git
2 6 (0.60%) JIRA
3 4 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.30%) Subversion
5 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.20%) GDB
6 1 (0.10%) CMake
6 1 (0.10%) KGDB
6 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 742 (74.80%) Electronics
2 62 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 37 (3.73%) Finance
4 36 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (2.62%) Telecoms
6 19 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.31%) Manufacturing
7 13 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.01%) Automotive
8 10 (1.01%) Law
9 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.60%) Marketing
10 6 (0.60%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.50%) Wearables
12 4 (0.40%) Billing
12 4 (0.40%) Legal
12 4 (0.40%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.20%) Advertising
13 2 (0.20%) Local Government
13 2 (0.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 724 (72.98%) Electronics Engineer
2 721 (72.68%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 721 (72.68%) Test Engineer
3 37 (3.73%) IT Support
4 36 (3.63%) Network Engineer
5 34 (3.43%) Software Engineer
6 31 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
7 26 (2.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 25 (2.52%) Senior
9 23 (2.32%) Technical Support
10 22 (2.22%) Analyst
10 22 (2.22%) Support Engineer
11 18 (1.81%) Collaboration Specialist
12 17 (1.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 15 (1.51%) Support Analyst
13 15 (1.51%) Support Technician
14 13 (1.31%) 2nd Line Support
14 13 (1.31%) Administrator
14 13 (1.31%) IT Support Technician
14 13 (1.31%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.71%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.30%) Middleware
3 2 (0.20%) HTML
3 2 (0.20%) HTML5
3 2 (0.20%) JSON
3 2 (0.20%) React
3 2 (0.20%) Redux
4 1 (0.10%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 731 (73.69%) Driving Licence
2 31 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
3 26 (2.62%) Digital Signage
4 21 (2.12%) Video Conferencing
5 20 (2.02%) e-Learning
5 20 (2.02%) MicroBlaze
5 20 (2.02%) RISC-V
5 20 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.31%) IoT
8 9 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.81%) EPoS
9 8 (0.81%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.50%) Blackberry
10 5 (0.50%) CCTV
10 5 (0.50%) Smart Energy
11 4 (0.40%) Device Driver
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (9.38%) Windows
2 46 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 41 (4.13%) Linux
4 32 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
6 18 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.41%) Mac OS X
8 11 (1.11%) Android
9 9 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.60%) VMS
11 3 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.10%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (74.09%) Mentoring
2 726 (73.19%) Validation
3 723 (72.88%) Coaching
4 722 (72.78%) Customer Requirements
4 722 (72.78%) Verification and Validation
5 721 (72.68%) Test Strategy
6 53 (5.34%) Customer Service
7 40 (4.03%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (3.73%) Service Delivery
9 35 (3.53%) ITIL
9 35 (3.53%) Software Engineering
10 26 (2.62%) Agile
11 25 (2.52%) Signal Processing
12 24 (2.42%) Digital Signal Processing
13 23 (2.32%) Project Management
14 21 (2.12%) Innovative Thinking
15 19 (1.92%) User Experience
16 16 (1.61%) Collaborative Working
17 14 (1.41%) Cybersecurity
17 14 (1.41%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (4.13%) C
2 31 (3.13%) C++
3 23 (2.32%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.32%) Python
4 19 (1.92%) SQL
5 5 (0.50%) Assembly Language
5 5 (0.50%) Embedded C
6 2 (0.20%) Java
6 2 (0.20%) Progress 4GL
7 1 (0.10%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.10%) R
7 1 (0.10%) Rust
7 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 766 (77.22%) Degree
2 721 (72.68%) HND
3 45 (4.54%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 32 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.92%) CCNA
7 28 (2.82%) CCNP
8 26 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.31%) MBA
11 10 (1.01%) MCSA
12 8 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.71%) JNCIA
14 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.40%) GCSC
16 3 (0.30%) A+ Certification
17 2 (0.20%) CCIE
17 2 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.01%) SLA
2 7 (0.71%) GDPR
3 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.10%) NIST
5 1 (0.10%) PMO
5 1 (0.10%) QA
System Software
1 72 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.33%) Firmware
3 28 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 24 (2.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 15 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.10%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 41 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.11%) FortiGate
3 7 (0.71%) Autotask
4 5 (0.50%) AirWatch
4 5 (0.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.50%) WSUS
5 4 (0.40%) Ansible
5 4 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (0.40%) SCCM
6 3 (0.30%) Terraform
7 1 (0.10%) CASB
7 1 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.10%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.10%) Nagios
Vendors
1 89 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.86%) Cisco
3 26 (2.62%) Meraki
4 25 (2.52%) Apple
5 24 (2.42%) VMware
6 18 (1.81%) Mitel
6 18 (1.81%) Polycom
6 18 (1.81%) ShoreTel
7 15 (1.51%) Aruba
8 14 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.31%) Ubiquiti
9 13 (1.31%) Unisys
10 10 (1.01%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.91%) Juniper
12 8 (0.81%) HP
12 8 (0.81%) Veeam
13 7 (0.71%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.71%) Draytek
13 7 (0.71%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.60%) SonicWALL