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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 90 190
Rank change year-on-year -160 +100 -143
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 426 980 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 3.44% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.18% 19.82% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 344 181 853
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £30,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £68,500
UK median annual salary £45,250 £50,000 £45,802
% change year-on-year -9.50% +9.17% +1.78%

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 6,896 4,945 9,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.23% 17.37% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 2,537 7,090
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,313 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year - -2.84% -2.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,250 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.74% - -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 28 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 28 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 -110 123 £42,500 +6.25% 95
North of England -25 113 £52,500 +59.09% 49
North West +26 75 £57,500 -14.81% 31
Midlands -122 73 £42,500 -7.61% 28
East of England -113 61 £41,191 -8.47% 29
West Midlands -14 39 £42,500 +1.19% 14
East Midlands -98 34 £35,000 -30.00% 14
South West -54 28 £50,959 +25.05% 40
Yorkshire -75 27 £37,500 +25.00% 13
Scotland +6 16 £75,000 +57.89% 14
Wales -33 11 £42,500 -14.57% 6
North East -39 11 £39,750 +19.74% 8
Northern Ireland -32 2 £45,750 - 2
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 26 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 39 (9.15%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 88 (20.66%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (12.91%) Azure
3 29 (6.81%) Entra ID
4 17 (3.99%) AWS
5 5 (1.17%) Google Workspace
6 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.47%) GCP
7 2 (0.47%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.47%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.47%) SaaS
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 83 (19.48%) Firewall
2 81 (19.01%) WAN
3 77 (18.08%) VPN
4 72 (16.90%) LAN
5 39 (9.15%) Wi-Fi
6 36 (8.45%) VLAN
7 35 (8.22%) SD-WAN
8 34 (7.98%) Network Security
9 32 (7.51%) BGP
10 30 (7.04%) Bluetooth
10 30 (7.04%) OSPF
11 27 (6.34%) DHCP
11 27 (6.34%) DNS
12 26 (6.10%) TCP/IP
13 23 (5.40%) Broadband
14 22 (5.16%) WLAN
15 19 (4.46%) Cisco Wireless
16 18 (4.23%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (3.99%) EIGRP
18 13 (3.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Git
2 5 (1.17%) JIRA
3 4 (0.94%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.94%) GDB
3 4 (0.94%) GitLab
3 4 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.94%) Robot Framework
3 4 (0.94%) Subversion
4 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 130 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (9.39%) Telecoms
4 34 (7.98%) Electronics
5 20 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 19 (4.46%) Finance
7 18 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.52%) Law
9 12 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.58%) Automotive
10 11 (2.58%) Retail
11 9 (2.11%) Military
12 8 (1.88%) Marketing
13 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.41%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.41%) Welsh Language
15 5 (1.17%) Advertising
15 5 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.17%) Legal
16 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 67 (15.73%) Senior
3 62 (14.55%) Network Engineer
4 53 (12.44%) IT Support
5 45 (10.56%) Software Engineer
6 44 (10.33%) IT Technician
7 34 (7.98%) IT Engineer
8 32 (7.51%) Embedded Engineer
9 28 (6.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 28 (6.57%) IT Support Engineer
10 27 (6.34%) Technical Engineer
10 27 (6.34%) Technical Support
10 27 (6.34%) Technical Support Engineer
11 24 (5.63%) Senior IT Technician
11 24 (5.63%) Senior Technician
12 23 (5.40%) Support Technician
13 22 (5.16%) Senior Network Engineer
14 21 (4.93%) Administrator
14 21 (4.93%) Wireless Engineer
15 20 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.64%) REST
2 4 (0.94%) pytest
2 4 (0.94%) Unity DI Container
2 4 (0.94%) Yocto
3 1 (0.23%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.23%) NumPy
3 1 (0.23%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.23%) SciPy
3 1 (0.23%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.49%) Driving Licence
2 41 (9.62%) Data Centre
3 29 (6.81%) IoT
4 20 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
5 16 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.35%) CCTV
7 10 (2.35%) Smart Home
8 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.64%) Raspberry Pi
10 5 (1.17%) Device Driver
10 5 (1.17%) Replication
11 4 (0.94%) ARM Cortex
11 4 (0.94%) ASIC
11 4 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) Podcast
11 4 (0.94%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.70%) FPGA
12 3 (0.70%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 112 (26.29%) Windows
2 72 (16.90%) Windows Server
3 24 (5.63%) Windows 10
4 19 (4.46%) Apple iOS
5 13 (3.05%) Linux
6 11 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.17%) Android
9 3 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.23%) CentOS
10 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.23%) Rocky
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (12.68%) Software Engineering
3 48 (11.27%) Customer Service
4 45 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 36 (8.45%) Service Delivery
6 31 (7.28%) ITIL
7 30 (7.04%) Decision-Making
8 29 (6.81%) Project Delivery
9 23 (5.40%) Time Management
10 22 (5.16%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (5.16%) Network Monitoring
11 21 (4.93%) Logistics
12 19 (4.46%) CRM
12 19 (4.46%) Validation
13 18 (4.23%) Computer Science
14 17 (3.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (3.76%) ITSM
15 16 (3.76%) Mentoring
16 15 (3.52%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.69%) Python
2 27 (6.34%) C++
3 26 (6.10%) C
4 12 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.41%) Embedded C
6 5 (1.17%) VB
7 4 (0.94%) Bash
8 1 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (14.55%) DBS Check
2 54 (12.68%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (11.27%) Degree
4 44 (10.33%) CCNP
5 24 (5.63%) Network+ Certification
6 19 (4.46%) A+ Certification
7 16 (3.76%) CCNA
8 15 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.82%) CCIE
10 9 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.88%) Security Cleared
12 7 (1.64%) SC Cleared
13 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.70%) HP APS
14 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.70%) MCSE
15 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.47%) CREST Certified
16 1 (0.23%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.58%) SLA
2 8 (1.88%) PMO
3 6 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.17%) JTAG
5 4 (0.94%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 80 (18.78%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.93%) Firmware
4 17 (3.99%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.82%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (1.88%) ProxySG
7 7 (1.64%) vSphere
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.11%) FortiGate
3 8 (1.88%) Ansible
4 5 (1.17%) SCCM
5 4 (0.94%) Backup Exec
5 4 (0.94%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.47%) Nagios
7 1 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.23%) Nessus
7 1 (0.23%) Nmap
7 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.23%) Terraform
7 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 113 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 89 (20.89%) Cisco
3 43 (10.09%) Fortinet
4 42 (9.86%) VMware
5 34 (7.98%) Aruba
6 29 (6.81%) Meraki
7 17 (3.99%) Palo Alto
8 16 (3.76%) CheckPoint
9 14 (3.29%) Veeam
10 13 (3.05%) F5
10 13 (3.05%) Juniper
10 13 (3.05%) SolarWinds
11 11 (2.58%) Apple
12 10 (2.35%) HP
13 9 (2.11%) ServiceNow
14 8 (1.88%) Blue Coat
14 8 (1.88%) HubSpot
14 8 (1.88%) Infoblox
14 8 (1.88%) Motorola
15 6 (1.41%) Salesforce