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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 262 181
Rank change year-on-year +5 -81 -126
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 397 266 1,048
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.00% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.96% 6.69% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 325 200 864
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +7.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £67,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

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 7,998 3,979 9,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.56% 14.89% 13.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,915 2,647 7,105
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -6.86%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +2 125 £48,000 +20.00% 97
North of England -39 103 £41,250 +22.77% 54
North West +8 72 £52,500 -22.22% 25
Midlands -19 60 £40,000 -20.00% 27
East of England 0 53 £42,500 -22.73% 45
West Midlands -7 37 £52,500 -19.23% 16
East Midlands -36 23 £34,500 -13.75% 11
Scotland -10 21 £75,000 +74.42% 18
Yorkshire -87 21 £35,000 +16.67% 23
South West -53 19 £55,000 +20.22% 27
Wales -20 10 £42,500 -1.16% 7
North East -37 10 £39,750 +6.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 7 £70,000 - 1
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 21 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (22.92%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (13.60%) Azure
3 22 (5.54%) AWS
3 22 (5.54%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.26%) GCP
4 5 (1.26%) Google Workspace
5 3 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (0.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 97 (24.43%) Firewall
2 92 (23.17%) WAN
3 83 (20.91%) VPN
4 76 (19.14%) LAN
5 42 (10.58%) DHCP
6 41 (10.33%) DNS
7 40 (10.08%) VLAN
8 39 (9.82%) SD-WAN
9 36 (9.07%) BGP
10 34 (8.56%) OSPF
10 34 (8.56%) TCP/IP
11 27 (6.80%) Network Security
11 27 (6.80%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (5.79%) EIGRP
12 23 (5.79%) WLAN
13 21 (5.29%) Broadband
13 21 (5.29%) Cisco Wireless
14 20 (5.04%) Bluetooth
15 19 (4.79%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (4.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.76%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) Git
3 4 (1.01%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.01%) Subversion
4 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.55%) Electronics
3 26 (6.55%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.04%) Retail
5 18 (4.53%) Manufacturing
6 16 (4.03%) Law
7 15 (3.78%) Finance
8 13 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.02%) Military
11 7 (1.76%) Automotive
11 7 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.51%) Marketing
12 6 (1.51%) Welsh Language
13 5 (1.26%) Advertising
13 5 (1.26%) Legal
13 5 (1.26%) Wearables
14 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (15.37%) Senior
2 56 (14.11%) Network Engineer
3 54 (13.60%) IT Support
4 52 (13.10%) Support Engineer
5 42 (10.58%) IT Technician
6 37 (9.32%) Software Engineer
7 32 (8.06%) IT Engineer
8 26 (6.55%) IT Support Engineer
9 24 (6.05%) Senior IT Technician
9 24 (6.05%) Senior Technician
10 23 (5.79%) Embedded Engineer
11 22 (5.54%) 2nd Line Support
11 22 (5.54%) Senior Network Engineer
12 21 (5.29%) Support Technician
13 20 (5.04%) Administrator
13 20 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (4.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 19 (4.79%) Trainee
15 18 (4.53%) Network Administrator
15 18 (4.53%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.02%) REST
2 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.50%) Web Services
3 1 (0.25%) NumPy
3 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.25%) SciPy
3 1 (0.25%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.34%) Driving Licence
2 44 (11.08%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.55%) IoT
4 21 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.02%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.52%) Smart Home
7 8 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.76%) CCTV
9 6 (1.51%) Raspberry Pi
10 5 (1.26%) Replication
11 4 (1.01%) ASIC
11 4 (1.01%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.01%) Podcast
11 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.76%) NB-IoT
12 3 (0.76%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 117 (29.47%) Windows
2 76 (19.14%) Windows Server
3 21 (5.29%) Apple iOS
4 20 (5.04%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.02%) Linux
5 12 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.02%) Android
7 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.25%) CentOS
11 1 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Unix
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (13.85%) Customer Service
3 44 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (11.08%) Software Engineering
4 34 (8.56%) Service Delivery
5 30 (7.56%) ITIL
6 26 (6.55%) Root Cause Analysis
7 25 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (6.05%) Time Management
9 23 (5.79%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (5.54%) Logistics
11 21 (5.29%) Project Delivery
12 20 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (5.04%) Network Monitoring
13 18 (4.53%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (4.28%) ITSM
15 16 (4.03%) CRM
15 16 (4.03%) Kalman Filter
15 16 (4.03%) Mentoring
15 16 (4.03%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.82%) Python
2 23 (5.79%) C++
3 22 (5.54%) PowerShell
4 19 (4.79%) C
5 5 (1.26%) Embedded C
5 5 (1.26%) VB
6 2 (0.50%) SQL
6 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 57 (14.36%) DBS Check
2 54 (13.60%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (11.84%) CCNP
4 43 (10.83%) Degree
5 21 (5.29%) Network+ Certification
6 19 (4.79%) A+ Certification
7 15 (3.78%) CCNA
8 11 (2.77%) CCIE
9 10 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.51%) SC Cleared
11 6 (1.51%) Security Cleared
12 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.50%) HP APS
15 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.25%) CHECK Team Member
15 1 (0.25%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.78%) SLA
2 8 (2.02%) PMO
3 6 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.26%) QA
5 4 (1.01%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.50%) GDPR
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) JTAG
8 1 (0.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (20.91%) Active Directory
2 46 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.05%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.79%) Firmware
5 9 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (2.02%) ProxySG
7 6 (1.51%) vSphere
8 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.03%) Ansible
2 15 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.27%) FortiGate
4 8 (2.02%) Terraform
5 4 (1.01%) Backup Exec
5 4 (1.01%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.76%) Grafana
6 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.76%) SCCM
7 2 (0.50%) Nagios
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.25%) Nmap
8 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 127 (31.99%) Microsoft
2 89 (22.42%) Cisco
3 48 (12.09%) VMware
4 44 (11.08%) Fortinet
5 31 (7.81%) Meraki
6 29 (7.30%) Aruba
7 21 (5.29%) SolarWinds
8 16 (4.03%) CheckPoint
8 16 (4.03%) F5
8 16 (4.03%) Palo Alto
9 13 (3.27%) Juniper
10 12 (3.02%) Veeam
11 11 (2.77%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.52%) Apple
12 10 (2.52%) HP
13 8 (2.02%) Blue Coat
13 8 (2.02%) Infoblox
13 8 (2.02%) Motorola
14 7 (1.76%) HubSpot
15 6 (1.51%) Salesforce