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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 151 168
Rank change year-on-year -103 +17 +86
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 323 614 866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 1.88% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.23% 13.12% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 252 198 736
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,291 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,625 £29,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £40,125
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.38% -5.59%
75th Percentile £66,500 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £68,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -

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 7,642 4,680 7,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.13% 14.30% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,806 2,399 6,043
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,063 £36,250 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +16.28% -4.44%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,875 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -20 130 £42,500 - 88
Midlands -56 47 £52,500 - 35
North of England -57 39 £30,000 -45.45% 50
Scotland +5 38 £51,000 +40.69% 10
West Midlands -2 36 £61,000 +12.96% 20
East of England -64 34 £57,750 +5.00% 31
North West -18 19 £30,000 -52.00% 28
South West -28 18 £36,051 -37.30% 33
North East -9 11 £29,000 -63.75% 10
East Midlands -66 11 £36,000 +10.77% 15
Wales -13 10 £42,500 -1.16% 9
Yorkshire -58 9 £28,000 -7.44% 15
Northern Ireland - 7 £70,000 - 5
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 25 (7.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (6.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) CMS
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 88 (27.24%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (26.93%) Azure
3 27 (8.36%) Entra ID
4 19 (5.88%) AWS
5 7 (2.17%) Google Workspace
6 6 (1.86%) GCP
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.93%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.62%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.62%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.62%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.62%) Serverless
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon Ads
10 1 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.31%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (34.98%) Firewall
2 93 (28.79%) WAN
3 85 (26.32%) LAN
4 75 (23.22%) VPN
5 54 (16.72%) VLAN
6 53 (16.41%) DHCP
7 49 (15.17%) DNS
7 49 (15.17%) SD-WAN
8 41 (12.69%) TCP/IP
9 36 (11.15%) BGP
10 30 (9.29%) OSPF
10 30 (9.29%) Wireshark
11 27 (8.36%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (7.74%) VoIP
12 25 (7.74%) WLAN
13 23 (7.12%) Internet
14 22 (6.81%) Network Security
15 20 (6.19%) EIGRP
15 20 (6.19%) MPLS
16 16 (4.95%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.31%) FileMaker
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.86%) JIRA
2 4 (1.24%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.24%) Git
2 4 (1.24%) Subversion
3 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 121 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.62%) Telecoms
3 42 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.05%) Electronics
5 22 (6.81%) Manufacturing
6 18 (5.57%) Finance
6 18 (5.57%) Retail
7 17 (5.26%) Law
8 9 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.86%) Military
10 6 (1.86%) Welsh Language
11 5 (1.55%) Automotive
11 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.55%) Legal
11 5 (1.55%) Marketing
12 4 (1.24%) Wearables
13 3 (0.93%) Games
14 2 (0.62%) Advertising
14 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 53 (16.41%) Network Engineer
2 52 (16.10%) IT Support
3 47 (14.55%) Support Engineer
4 30 (9.29%) IT Engineer
5 26 (8.05%) Software Engineer
6 24 (7.43%) Senior
7 23 (7.12%) 2nd Line Support
8 22 (6.81%) Technical Engineer
8 22 (6.81%) Technical Support
9 20 (6.19%) Analyst
10 19 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (5.57%) Technical Support Engineer
12 16 (4.95%) Embedded Engineer
13 15 (4.64%) 3rd Line Support
13 15 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
14 14 (4.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 14 (4.33%) Support Analyst
15 13 (4.02%) Senior Network Engineer
16 12 (3.72%) Lead
16 12 (3.72%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.48%) REST
2 3 (0.93%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.62%) Web Services
4 1 (0.31%) NumPy
4 1 (0.31%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.31%) SciPy
4 1 (0.31%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.46%) Data Centre
2 33 (10.22%) Driving Licence
3 29 (8.98%) Management Information System
4 25 (7.74%) IoT
5 24 (7.43%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.55%) CCTV
7 5 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.55%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (1.55%) Replication
8 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.24%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.62%) BYOD
10 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.62%) FPGA
10 2 (0.62%) PKI
10 2 (0.62%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 84 (26.01%) Windows
2 48 (14.86%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.26%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.95%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.02%) Linux
6 11 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (2.79%) Android
8 8 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.31%) CentOS
10 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.31%) Rocky
10 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (21.67%) Customer Service
3 34 (10.53%) Change Management
3 34 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
4 32 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (8.67%) Mentoring
5 28 (8.67%) Software Engineering
6 27 (8.36%) ITIL
6 27 (8.36%) Load Balancing
7 25 (7.74%) Collaborative Working
8 24 (7.43%) Asset Management
9 22 (6.81%) Logistics
9 22 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (6.19%) Network Virtualisation
11 20 (6.19%) Project Delivery
11 20 (6.19%) Project Management
12 18 (5.57%) Problem Management
12 18 (5.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.84%) Python
2 28 (8.67%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.88%) C++
4 14 (4.33%) C
5 5 (1.55%) VB
6 4 (1.24%) Embedded C
7 2 (0.62%) SQL
7 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.31%) Bicep
8 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 46 (14.24%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (13.31%) CCNP
3 33 (10.22%) Degree
4 19 (5.88%) DBS Check
5 13 (4.02%) CCNA
6 7 (2.17%) CCIE
6 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.86%) Security Cleared
8 5 (1.55%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.31%) CCDA
11 1 (0.31%) CHECK Team Member
11 1 (0.31%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) GPEN
11 1 (0.31%) OSCP
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.86%) Data Quality
1 6 (1.86%) SLA
2 5 (1.55%) PMO
2 5 (1.55%) QA
3 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.31%) GRC
4 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (24.46%) Active Directory
2 39 (12.07%) Hyper-V
3 24 (7.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (6.19%) Firmware
5 5 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.55%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.31%) Docker
8 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 18 (5.57%) Ansible
4 9 (2.79%) Terraform
5 4 (1.24%) Backup Exec
5 4 (1.24%) Grafana
5 4 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.93%) Autotask
7 2 (0.62%) Nagios
8 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.31%) Nessus
8 1 (0.31%) Nmap
8 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.31%) SCCM
8 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 112 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 96 (29.72%) Cisco
3 51 (15.79%) Meraki
4 36 (11.15%) Fortinet
5 35 (10.84%) SolarWinds
6 34 (10.53%) Palo Alto
7 26 (8.05%) CheckPoint
8 25 (7.74%) VMware
9 17 (5.26%) Aruba
10 15 (4.64%) Veeam
11 13 (4.02%) SonicWALL
12 12 (3.72%) Apple
12 12 (3.72%) F5
13 10 (3.10%) Juniper
14 9 (2.79%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.48%) Google
16 7 (2.17%) HP
16 7 (2.17%) WatchGuard
17 6 (1.86%) Zoho
18 5 (1.55%) Splunk