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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 161 164
Rank change year-on-year -60 +3 +97
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 350 707 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.88% 1.65% 2.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.07% 13.04% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 258 260 549
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £51,876 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +29.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -5.00%

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 6,902 5,423 5,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.38% 12.67% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 2,715 4,189
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,950 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -13 134 £40,000 -15.79% 140
North of England -28 48 £29,000 -27.50% 65
Scotland +13 42 £51,000 +2.00% 15
East of England -63 40 £57,500 - 46
South West +29 35 £38,026 -39.16% 33
Midlands -61 35 £52,500 -2.78% 49
West Midlands -4 31 £50,000 -7.41% 28
Yorkshire -31 18 £28,000 -6.67% 21
North West +9 16 £32,000 -41.82% 41
North East +5 14 £29,000 -63.72% 5
Wales -12 8 £42,500 -3.41% 7
Northern Ireland - 8 £64,500 - 4
East Midlands -52 4 £57,500 +88.89% 20
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 37 (10.57%) SharePoint
2 35 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.14%) Confluence
4 6 (1.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.86%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.29%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 118 (33.71%) Azure
2 104 (29.71%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (9.71%) Entra ID
4 16 (4.57%) AWS
4 16 (4.57%) OneDrive
5 11 (3.14%) Power Automate
5 11 (3.14%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.14%) PowerApps
5 11 (3.14%) Serverless
6 8 (2.29%) GCP
7 5 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.43%) Google Workspace
7 5 (1.43%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.86%) SaaS
10 2 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Ads
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 118 (33.71%) Firewall
2 90 (25.71%) LAN
3 77 (22.00%) WAN
4 72 (20.57%) DHCP
5 70 (20.00%) VPN
6 68 (19.43%) DNS
7 61 (17.43%) VLAN
8 50 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 39 (11.14%) VoIP
10 31 (8.86%) SD-WAN
11 30 (8.57%) Internet
12 26 (7.43%) Wireshark
13 23 (6.57%) WLAN
14 18 (5.14%) Software-Defined Radio
14 18 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (4.57%) BGP
15 16 (4.57%) Bluetooth
16 15 (4.29%) Broadband
16 15 (4.29%) MPLS
17 14 (4.00%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.29%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 16 (4.57%) JIRA
2 4 (1.14%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.14%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.29%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (37.71%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.71%) Telecoms
3 51 (14.57%) Electronics
4 42 (12.00%) Finance
5 40 (11.43%) Manufacturing
6 23 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (6.29%) Automotive
8 16 (4.57%) Retail
9 13 (3.71%) Marketing
10 10 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.57%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.57%) Law
12 8 (2.29%) Billing
13 5 (1.43%) Legal
14 4 (1.14%) Wearables
15 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.86%) Games
15 3 (0.86%) Military
15 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.86%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 67 (19.14%) Support Engineer
2 51 (14.57%) IT Support
2 51 (14.57%) Technical Support
3 48 (13.71%) Technical Engineer
4 44 (12.57%) Network Engineer
5 41 (11.71%) Technical Support Engineer
6 35 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 33 (9.43%) IT Engineer
8 31 (8.86%) Embedded Engineer
8 31 (8.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 27 (7.71%) 2nd Line Support
10 24 (6.86%) Analyst
10 24 (6.86%) IT Support Engineer
11 22 (6.29%) Senior
12 17 (4.86%) 3rd Line Support
13 16 (4.57%) Support Analyst
14 14 (4.00%) Senior IT Engineer
15 12 (3.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 12 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.14%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.71%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.57%) Web Services
3 1 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 28 (8.00%) IoT
2 26 (7.43%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.00%) Driving Licence
4 20 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
5 18 (5.14%) e-Learning
5 18 (5.14%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.86%) MicroBlaze
6 17 (4.86%) RISC-V
7 15 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.57%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.71%) Clustering
10 5 (1.43%) CCTV
10 5 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.14%) Digital Signage
11 4 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 83 (23.71%) Windows
2 52 (14.86%) Windows Server
3 42 (12.00%) Linux
4 19 (5.43%) Apple iOS
5 18 (5.14%) Android
5 18 (5.14%) Mac OS
6 17 (4.86%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (3.14%) Windows 10
8 10 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.86%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (26.00%) Customer Service
2 56 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (10.57%) Software Engineering
4 34 (9.71%) Agile
5 30 (8.57%) Mentoring
6 29 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (8.00%) ITIL
8 27 (7.71%) Asset Management
8 27 (7.71%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (7.43%) Change Management
9 26 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (6.86%) Network Monitoring
11 22 (6.29%) Coaching
12 21 (6.00%) Load Balancing
12 21 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (5.71%) Innovative Thinking
14 19 (5.43%) Digital Signal Processing
14 19 (5.43%) Network Virtualisation
14 19 (5.43%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.14%) PowerShell
2 35 (10.00%) C++
3 30 (8.57%) C
4 19 (5.43%) Python
5 4 (1.14%) Bash
6 3 (0.86%) SQL
7 2 (0.57%) R
7 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (11.14%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.29%) Degree
3 29 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.86%) CCNA
4 24 (6.86%) CCNP
5 8 (2.29%) GCSC
5 8 (2.29%) JNCIA
6 7 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (1.71%) ACMT
8 5 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.14%) OSCP
10 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.86%) HND
11 2 (0.57%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.57%) CWAP
11 2 (0.57%) CWDP
11 2 (0.57%) CWNA
11 2 (0.57%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.00%) GDPR
2 6 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.71%) SLA
3 5 (1.43%) QA
4 4 (1.14%) NIST
5 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 94 (26.86%) Active Directory
2 56 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 42 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (10.00%) Firmware
5 19 (5.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.00%) Docker
7 7 (2.00%) vSphere
8 6 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (15.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.43%) FortiGate
3 16 (4.57%) Autotask
4 11 (3.14%) Ansible
5 9 (2.57%) Terraform
6 7 (2.00%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.71%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.14%) Grafana
8 4 (1.14%) Nmap
8 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.86%) SCCM
10 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 142 (40.57%) Microsoft
2 92 (26.29%) Cisco
3 49 (14.00%) Meraki
4 46 (13.14%) VMware
5 35 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 28 (8.00%) Fortinet
6 28 (8.00%) Veeam
7 26 (7.43%) SolarWinds
7 26 (7.43%) SonicWALL
8 24 (6.86%) Aruba
9 23 (6.57%) Apple
10 17 (4.86%) CheckPoint
10 17 (4.86%) Sophos
11 15 (4.29%) WatchGuard
12 11 (3.14%) Atlassian
13 10 (2.86%) HP
13 10 (2.86%) Samsung
14 9 (2.57%) Sage
15 8 (2.29%) Juniper
15 8 (2.29%) Ubiquiti