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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 151 168
Rank change year-on-year -92 +17 +84
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 323 620 869
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.84% 1.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.23% 13.04% 12.10%
Number of salaries quoted 254 210 744
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £40,282
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +17.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £66,438 £65,938 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £68,000
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 7,637 4,756 7,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 14.08% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,838 2,404 6,029
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £30,500
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 £63,750 £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 6 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 6 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 -27 132 £42,500 -5.56% 83
Midlands -58 44 £52,000 -0.95% 42
North of England -66 39 £30,000 -45.45% 51
Scotland +13 38 £51,000 +36.00% 13
West Midlands +3 34 £61,000 +12.96% 24
East of England -60 34 £57,750 +5.00% 42
North West -16 19 £30,000 -52.00% 28
South West -13 18 £35,526 -36.84% 38
Wales -9 10 £42,500 -2.30% 8
North East -14 10 £29,000 -63.75% 8
Yorkshire -45 10 £28,000 -7.44% 17
East Midlands -70 10 £36,750 +13.95% 18
Northern Ireland - 8 £64,500 - 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 25 (7.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (7.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) CMS
4 2 (0.62%) WordPress
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (8.36%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.62%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 91 (28.17%) Azure
2 89 (27.55%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (8.67%) Entra ID
4 18 (5.57%) AWS
5 6 (1.86%) GCP
5 6 (1.86%) Google Workspace
6 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.24%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.93%) Mimecast
7 3 (0.93%) Power Automate
7 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.93%) PowerApps
7 3 (0.93%) Serverless
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Ads
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (35.60%) Firewall
2 92 (28.48%) WAN
3 87 (26.93%) LAN
4 74 (22.91%) VPN
5 58 (17.96%) DHCP
6 54 (16.72%) DNS
6 54 (16.72%) VLAN
7 46 (14.24%) SD-WAN
8 41 (12.69%) TCP/IP
9 34 (10.53%) BGP
10 30 (9.29%) Wireshark
11 29 (8.98%) OSPF
12 27 (8.36%) VoIP
13 26 (8.05%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (7.12%) Internet
14 23 (7.12%) WLAN
15 20 (6.19%) MPLS
16 19 (5.88%) EIGRP
16 19 (5.88%) Network Security
17 16 (4.95%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.31%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 7 (2.17%) 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
General
1 121 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.62%) Telecoms
3 38 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.36%) Electronics
5 25 (7.74%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.88%) Finance
7 18 (5.57%) Retail
8 17 (5.26%) Law
9 8 (2.48%) Automotive
10 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.86%) Military
11 6 (1.86%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.86%) Welsh Language
12 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.55%) Legal
12 5 (1.55%) Marketing
13 4 (1.24%) Wearables
14 3 (0.93%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.93%) Games
15 2 (0.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (16.10%) Network Engineer
2 50 (15.48%) IT Support
3 49 (15.17%) Support Engineer
4 32 (9.91%) IT Engineer
5 25 (7.74%) 2nd Line Support
5 25 (7.74%) Senior
5 25 (7.74%) Software Engineer
6 24 (7.43%) Technical Engineer
7 23 (7.12%) Technical Support
8 21 (6.50%) Analyst
9 20 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 19 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
11 17 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
12 15 (4.64%) Support Analyst
12 15 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (4.33%) Embedded Engineer
14 13 (4.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 13 (4.02%) Senior Network Engineer
15 12 (3.72%) Lead
16 11 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.48%) REST
2 4 (1.24%) 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 36 (11.15%) Data Centre
2 31 (9.60%) Driving Licence
3 29 (8.98%) Management Information System
4 24 (7.43%) IoT
5 23 (7.12%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.55%) CCTV
7 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.24%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.24%) Raspberry Pi
8 4 (1.24%) Replication
9 3 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.62%) BYOD
10 2 (0.62%) PKI
10 2 (0.62%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (26.32%) Windows
2 48 (14.86%) Windows Server
3 18 (5.57%) Apple iOS
4 14 (4.33%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.02%) Linux
6 11 (3.41%) Android
7 10 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.55%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.31%) CentOS
11 1 (0.31%) Rocky
11 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (22.29%) Customer Service
3 34 (10.53%) Change Management
4 33 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (10.22%) Network Monitoring
5 30 (9.29%) Mentoring
6 26 (8.05%) Software Engineering
7 25 (7.74%) ITIL
8 24 (7.43%) Asset Management
8 24 (7.43%) Collaborative Working
8 24 (7.43%) Load Balancing
9 23 (7.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 22 (6.81%) Project Delivery
11 21 (6.50%) Logistics
11 21 (6.50%) Project Management
12 20 (6.19%) Network Virtualisation
13 19 (5.88%) Network Management
14 18 (5.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.53%) Python
2 29 (8.98%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.88%) C++
4 14 (4.33%) C
5 4 (1.24%) Embedded C
5 4 (1.24%) VB
6 2 (0.62%) SQL
6 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 46 (14.24%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (12.69%) CCNP
3 30 (9.29%) Degree
4 17 (5.26%) DBS Check
5 15 (4.64%) CCNA
6 6 (1.86%) CCIE
6 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.55%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.24%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.31%) ACMT
11 1 (0.31%) CHECK Team Member
11 1 (0.31%) City & Guilds
11 1 (0.31%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.86%) Data Quality
1 6 (1.86%) SLA
2 5 (1.55%) QA
3 4 (1.24%) PMO
4 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.31%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (25.39%) Active Directory
2 41 (12.69%) Hyper-V
3 29 (8.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.88%) Firmware
5 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.55%) vSphere
6 4 (1.24%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.62%) Docker
8 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 18 (5.57%) Ansible
4 9 (2.79%) Terraform
5 5 (1.55%) Autotask
6 4 (1.24%) Grafana
6 4 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.93%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.62%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.62%) Nagios
9 1 (0.31%) Nessus
9 1 (0.31%) Nmap
9 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.31%) SCCM
9 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 117 (36.22%) Microsoft
2 95 (29.41%) Cisco
3 52 (16.10%) Meraki
4 35 (10.84%) Fortinet
5 34 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 34 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 31 (9.60%) VMware
7 23 (7.12%) CheckPoint
8 20 (6.19%) Aruba
9 16 (4.95%) Veeam
10 13 (4.02%) SonicWALL
11 12 (3.72%) Apple
12 11 (3.41%) F5
13 10 (3.10%) Juniper
14 9 (2.79%) HP
15 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
16 7 (2.17%) Google
16 7 (2.17%) WatchGuard
17 6 (1.86%) Zoho
18 5 (1.55%) Splunk