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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 159 171
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +92
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 766 737 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.23% 1.54% 1.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.46% 13.22% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 238 274 551
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,825 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,013 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £50,626 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +25.00% -11.96%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £42,250 £54,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -21.76% +16.13% -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 4,954 5,576 5,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.42% 11.63% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 2,742 4,361
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £37,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.10% +5.00% -4.76%

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 October 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 28 October 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
South East +37 249 £37,625 -20.79% 136
East of England +30 224 £48,500 -22.40% 28
Midlands +24 135 £46,000 -14.81% 46
East Midlands +32 113 £55,000 +69.23% 13
North of England -28 68 £29,000 -27.50% 62
South West +56 45 £35,000 -44.00% 42
Scotland -9 35 £51,000 +2.00% 12
Yorkshire -5 31 £28,000 -6.67% 20
West Midlands -7 22 £34,000 -37.04% 33
North West -24 20 £32,000 -41.82% 27
North East +12 17 £29,000 -63.72% 19
Wales -7 5 £49,750 +13.07% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £59,000 - 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 47 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.83%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
5 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 123 (16.06%) Azure
2 109 (14.23%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (5.35%) Entra ID
4 24 (3.13%) OneDrive
5 14 (1.83%) Power Automate
5 14 (1.83%) Power Platform
5 14 (1.83%) PowerApps
5 14 (1.83%) Serverless
6 13 (1.70%) AWS
7 6 (0.78%) Google Workspace
8 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.65%) GCP
8 5 (0.65%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.39%) Amazon Ads
10 3 (0.39%) SaaS
11 2 (0.26%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.26%) Facebook Ads
11 2 (0.26%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 439 (57.31%) Wi-Fi
2 433 (56.53%) Bluetooth
3 432 (56.40%) LTE
4 425 (55.48%) 5G
5 421 (54.96%) GSM
6 419 (54.70%) UMTS
7 110 (14.36%) Firewall
8 101 (13.19%) LAN
9 75 (9.79%) WAN
10 66 (8.62%) DHCP
11 62 (8.09%) DNS
11 62 (8.09%) VPN
12 55 (7.18%) VLAN
13 45 (5.87%) TCP/IP
14 42 (5.48%) VoIP
15 35 (4.57%) Internet
15 35 (4.57%) Software-Defined Radio
16 25 (3.26%) WLAN
17 22 (2.87%) SD-WAN
17 22 (2.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.13%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 17 (2.22%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.52%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 467 (60.97%) Electronics
2 133 (17.36%) Social Skills
3 62 (8.09%) Finance
4 50 (6.53%) Telecoms
5 36 (4.70%) Manufacturing
6 26 (3.39%) Automotive
7 15 (1.96%) Marketing
8 12 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (1.31%) Billing
10 10 (1.31%) Public Sector
11 7 (0.91%) Legal
12 5 (0.65%) Law
12 5 (0.65%) Retail
13 4 (0.52%) Games
13 4 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.39%) Advertising
14 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 424 (55.35%) Electronics Engineer
2 419 (54.70%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 419 (54.70%) Test Engineer
3 65 (8.49%) Support Engineer
4 56 (7.31%) Technical Support
5 52 (6.79%) IT Support
5 52 (6.79%) Technical Engineer
6 47 (6.14%) Embedded Engineer
6 47 (6.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 47 (6.14%) Software Engineer
7 46 (6.01%) Network Engineer
8 44 (5.74%) Technical Support Engineer
9 29 (3.79%) Analyst
10 28 (3.66%) IT Engineer
11 24 (3.13%) Senior
12 22 (2.87%) 2nd Line Support
13 19 (2.48%) IT Support Engineer
13 19 (2.48%) Support Analyst
14 15 (1.96%) 3rd Line Support
14 15 (1.96%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.96%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 435 (56.79%) Driving Licence
2 37 (4.83%) Embedded Systems
3 35 (4.57%) e-Learning
4 34 (4.44%) MicroBlaze
4 34 (4.44%) RISC-V
5 26 (3.39%) IoT
6 25 (3.26%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.57%) Digital Signage
10 11 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (1.31%) EPoS
12 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.91%) CCTV
14 6 (0.78%) Clustering
15 4 (0.52%) Blackberry
16 3 (0.39%) BYOD
16 3 (0.39%) Enterprise Storage
16 3 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (11.23%) Windows
2 57 (7.44%) Linux
3 54 (7.05%) Windows Server
4 34 (4.44%) Embedded Linux
5 22 (2.87%) Mac OS
6 21 (2.74%) Apple iOS
7 20 (2.61%) Android
8 19 (2.48%) Windows 10
9 13 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.39%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) VMS
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (59.01%) Mentoring
2 442 (57.70%) Coaching
3 426 (55.61%) Customer Requirements
4 421 (54.96%) Validation
5 419 (54.70%) Test Strategy
5 419 (54.70%) Verification and Validation
6 98 (12.79%) Customer Service
7 48 (6.27%) Software Engineering
8 46 (6.01%) Agile
9 41 (5.35%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (4.83%) Innovative Thinking
11 36 (4.70%) Digital Signal Processing
11 36 (4.70%) ITIL
11 36 (4.70%) Signal Processing
12 35 (4.57%) Asset Management
13 27 (3.52%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (3.39%) Collaborative Working
14 26 (3.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (3.00%) Change Management
15 23 (3.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.01%) C
1 46 (6.01%) C++
2 37 (4.83%) PowerShell
3 15 (1.96%) Python
4 4 (0.52%) Bash
5 3 (0.39%) SQL
6 2 (0.26%) R
7 1 (0.13%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 453 (59.14%) Degree
2 422 (55.09%) HND
3 53 (6.92%) Security Cleared
4 48 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (3.66%) CCNA
7 22 (2.87%) CCNP
8 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.57%) JNCIA
10 10 (1.31%) GCSC
11 6 (0.78%) ACMT
11 6 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.52%) OSCP
13 3 (0.39%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.39%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.26%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.26%) CWDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.57%) GDPR
2 7 (0.91%) SLA
3 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.52%) NIST
5 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 95 (12.40%) Active Directory
2 51 (6.66%) Hyper-V
3 49 (6.40%) Firmware
4 39 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (4.70%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.91%) Docker
8 6 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.78%) vSphere
9 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (8.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.61%) FortiGate
3 19 (2.48%) Autotask
4 7 (0.91%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.78%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.65%) SCCM
7 4 (0.52%) Ansible
7 4 (0.52%) Nmap
8 3 (0.39%) Terraform
9 1 (0.13%) CASB
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.13%) Grafana
9 1 (0.13%) Nagios
9 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 145 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 91 (11.88%) Cisco
3 52 (6.79%) Meraki
4 46 (6.01%) VMware
5 32 (4.18%) Veeam
6 30 (3.92%) Palo Alto
7 29 (3.79%) SonicWALL
8 28 (3.66%) Apple
9 22 (2.87%) Aruba
10 20 (2.61%) Fortinet
10 20 (2.61%) SolarWinds
11 19 (2.48%) Sophos
12 18 (2.35%) CheckPoint
13 17 (2.22%) WatchGuard
14 15 (1.96%) Samsung
15 14 (1.83%) Atlassian
16 13 (1.70%) Ubiquiti
17 12 (1.57%) Datto
18 10 (1.31%) Freshdesk
18 10 (1.31%) HP