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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 199 56
Rank change year-on-year +109 -143 +191
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,060 683 1,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.09% 1.24% 4.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.70% 10.67% 26.06%
Number of salaries quoted 226 411 562
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +11.11% -10.99%
75th Percentile £53,938 £61,250 £54,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -7.00%

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 5,669 6,399 6,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.51% 11.57% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,010 3,440 4,339
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £26,781 £33,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,439 £75,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +67 356 £54,750 -8.75% 31
South East +81 332 £40,000 +1.27% 110
Midlands +104 216 £50,000 -2.44% 46
East Midlands +96 191 £54,500 +67.69% 21
North of England -21 81 £29,000 -27.50% 51
South West +60 43 £40,000 +6.67% 21
North West -25 37 £33,000 -34.00% 29
Yorkshire -16 31 £28,000 -5.08% 18
West Midlands +8 25 £44,500 -17.59% 25
Scotland +38 24 £51,000 -2.86% 14
North East +19 13 £29,000 -63.72% 5
Northern Ireland +19 4 £59,000 +57.33% 4
Wales -1 4 £49,750 +17.06% 2
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 48 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.70%) Skype for Business
4 14 (1.32%) Confluence
5 6 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.38%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.094%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 97 (9.15%) Azure
2 87 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (3.02%) Entra ID
4 24 (2.26%) OneDrive
5 14 (1.32%) Power Automate
5 14 (1.32%) Power Platform
5 14 (1.32%) PowerApps
5 14 (1.32%) Serverless
6 11 (1.04%) AWS
7 6 (0.57%) Azure Storage
8 5 (0.47%) GCP
8 5 (0.47%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.38%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.38%) SaaS
10 3 (0.28%) Amazon Ads
10 3 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.19%) Facebook Ads
11 2 (0.19%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.094%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 739 (69.72%) Wi-Fi
2 736 (69.43%) Bluetooth
2 736 (69.43%) LTE
3 724 (68.30%) 5G
4 723 (68.21%) GSM
5 721 (68.02%) UMTS
6 92 (8.68%) Firewall
6 92 (8.68%) LAN
7 67 (6.32%) WAN
8 60 (5.66%) DHCP
9 59 (5.57%) DNS
9 59 (5.57%) VPN
10 41 (3.87%) VLAN
11 37 (3.49%) TCP/IP
12 36 (3.40%) Software-Defined Radio
13 34 (3.21%) Internet
14 30 (2.83%) VoIP
15 23 (2.17%) WLAN
16 20 (1.89%) Unified Communications
17 18 (1.70%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.19%) EDMS
3 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.094%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 16 (1.51%) JIRA
2 4 (0.38%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.38%) Git
2 4 (0.38%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.19%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.19%) Subversion
4 1 (0.094%) CMake
4 1 (0.094%) KGDB
4 1 (0.094%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 768 (72.45%) Electronics
2 97 (9.15%) Social Skills
3 61 (5.75%) Finance
4 42 (3.96%) Telecoms
5 34 (3.21%) Manufacturing
6 27 (2.55%) Automotive
7 23 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.42%) Marketing
9 11 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 10 (0.94%) Billing
11 9 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (0.75%) Legal
13 4 (0.38%) Games
13 4 (0.38%) Law
14 3 (0.28%) Advertising
14 3 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 729 (68.77%) Electronics Engineer
2 721 (68.02%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 721 (68.02%) Test Engineer
3 51 (4.81%) Support Engineer
4 47 (4.43%) Technical Support
5 46 (4.34%) Software Engineer
6 45 (4.25%) Embedded Engineer
6 45 (4.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 42 (3.96%) IT Support
8 36 (3.40%) Technical Engineer
9 34 (3.21%) Network Engineer
10 32 (3.02%) Technical Support Engineer
11 31 (2.92%) Analyst
12 26 (2.45%) Senior
13 22 (2.08%) 2nd Line Support
14 21 (1.98%) Support Analyst
15 20 (1.89%) Administrator
15 20 (1.89%) IT Engineer
16 19 (1.79%) 3rd Line Support
17 18 (1.70%) Collaboration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.60%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.28%) Middleware
3 1 (0.094%) Bazel
3 1 (0.094%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 730 (68.87%) Driving Licence
2 39 (3.68%) Embedded Systems
3 35 (3.30%) e-Learning
4 34 (3.21%) MicroBlaze
4 34 (3.21%) RISC-V
5 28 (2.64%) Digital Signage
5 28 (2.64%) IoT
6 23 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
8 18 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
9 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 10 (0.94%) EPoS
11 9 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.75%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.57%) CCTV
13 6 (0.57%) Clustering
14 5 (0.47%) Blackberry
15 4 (0.38%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.28%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 74 (6.98%) Windows
2 54 (5.09%) Linux
3 52 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.21%) Embedded Linux
5 22 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 19 (1.79%) Android
7 18 (1.70%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.51%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.57%) VMS
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.28%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (70.38%) Mentoring
2 735 (69.34%) Coaching
3 729 (68.77%) Customer Requirements
4 723 (68.21%) Validation
5 721 (68.02%) Test Strategy
5 721 (68.02%) Verification and Validation
6 70 (6.60%) Customer Service
7 48 (4.53%) Software Engineering
8 45 (4.25%) Agile
9 42 (3.96%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (3.58%) Signal Processing
11 37 (3.49%) Digital Signal Processing
11 37 (3.49%) Innovative Thinking
12 33 (3.11%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (3.11%) ITIL
13 27 (2.55%) Project Management
14 23 (2.17%) CRM
15 21 (1.98%) Asset Management
16 20 (1.89%) Disaster Recovery
17 19 (1.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (4.62%) C
2 45 (4.25%) C++
3 36 (3.40%) PowerShell
4 17 (1.60%) Python
5 6 (0.57%) SQL
6 5 (0.47%) Embedded C
7 4 (0.38%) Bash
8 3 (0.28%) R
9 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.19%) Progress 4GL
10 1 (0.094%) Rust
10 1 (0.094%) Scala
10 1 (0.094%) VB
Qualifications
1 754 (71.13%) Degree
2 724 (68.30%) HND
3 55 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 49 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (2.83%) CCNA
7 20 (1.89%) CCNP
8 17 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.13%) JNCIA
10 10 (0.94%) GCSC
11 8 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.57%) ACMT
12 6 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.38%) OSCP
15 3 (0.28%) A+ Certification
15 3 (0.28%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.28%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
16 2 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.23%) GDPR
2 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (0.57%) SLA
3 4 (0.38%) NIST
4 3 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 45 (4.25%) Firmware
3 36 (3.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 35 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 31 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.57%) Docker
7 6 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.57%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) XenApp
9 1 (0.094%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.89%) Autotask
3 14 (1.32%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.47%) SCCM
6 4 (0.38%) Ansible
6 4 (0.38%) Nmap
7 3 (0.28%) Terraform
8 1 (0.094%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.094%) CASB
8 1 (0.094%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.094%) Nagios
Vendors
1 118 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.68%) Cisco
3 38 (3.58%) Meraki
3 38 (3.58%) VMware
4 25 (2.36%) Apple
5 24 (2.26%) Veeam
6 20 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 19 (1.79%) Aruba
7 19 (1.79%) Sophos
8 18 (1.70%) Mitel
8 18 (1.70%) Polycom
8 18 (1.70%) ShoreTel
9 17 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 17 (1.60%) SonicWALL
10 14 (1.32%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.32%) Samsung
11 12 (1.13%) Datto
11 12 (1.13%) Ubiquiti
12 10 (0.94%) Freshdesk
12 10 (0.94%) WatchGuard