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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 96 215
Rank change year-on-year -139 +119 -185
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 614 1,059 720
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 3.06% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.57% 18.23% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 477 237 547
10th Percentile £28,650 £26,300 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £30,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.77% -11.76% +8.97%
75th Percentile £68,750 £52,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £71,100
UK median annual salary £48,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.94% -15.00% +9.29%

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 5,309 5,810 7,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.89% 16.80% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,574 3,171 4,662
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £37,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -17.78% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -95 186 £47,500 +18.75% 136
North of England +6 163 £47,500 +63.79% 66
Midlands -78 104 £42,500 -17.07% 37
North West +32 90 £57,500 +74.24% 37
East of England -104 86 £42,500 -5.56% 50
Yorkshire -22 57 £35,000 +22.81% 19
West Midlands +15 56 £42,500 +1.19% 19
South West -44 53 £48,750 +21.88% 40
East Midlands -92 48 £41,500 -23.85% 18
Scotland +11 18 £55,000 +7.84% 13
North East -52 16 £65,000 +124.14% 11
Wales -55 5 £34,000 -31.66% 4
Northern Ireland -71 1 £34,000 -36.15% 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 64 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 56 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.30%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.58%) Lightworks
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.49%) Simulink
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.98%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.16%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 144 (23.45%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (16.12%) Azure
3 54 (8.79%) Entra ID
4 27 (4.40%) AWS
5 10 (1.63%) OneDrive
6 9 (1.47%) Mimecast
7 6 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.81%) GCP
9 4 (0.65%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.49%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.33%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.33%) SaaS
11 2 (0.33%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.16%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 161 (26.22%) Firewall
2 119 (19.38%) LAN
3 117 (19.06%) WAN
4 115 (18.73%) VPN
5 84 (13.68%) Wi-Fi
6 81 (13.19%) VLAN
7 77 (12.54%) Network Security
8 66 (10.75%) DNS
9 62 (10.10%) DHCP
10 58 (9.45%) TCP/IP
11 45 (7.33%) SD-WAN
12 39 (6.35%) Bluetooth
13 33 (5.37%) Broadband
14 31 (5.05%) OSPF
14 31 (5.05%) WLAN
15 30 (4.89%) BGP
16 28 (4.56%) 5G
17 21 (3.42%) VoIP
17 21 (3.42%) ZigBee
18 20 (3.26%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.33%) Power BI
3 1 (0.16%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.16%) MySQL
3 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (3.42%) Git
2 6 (0.98%) GDB
2 6 (0.98%) GitLab
2 6 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.81%) JIRA
4 4 (0.65%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.49%) PetaLinux
6 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 192 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.10%) Telecoms
3 51 (8.31%) Electronics
4 47 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.03%) Manufacturing
6 35 (5.70%) Finance
7 31 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.28%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.28%) Retail
9 12 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.79%) Legal
10 11 (1.79%) Marketing
11 10 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.30%) Automotive
14 7 (1.14%) Advertising
15 6 (0.98%) Law
16 5 (0.81%) Military
16 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.65%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 106 (17.26%) Support Engineer
2 104 (16.94%) Network Engineer
3 94 (15.31%) Senior
4 92 (14.98%) IT Support
5 75 (12.21%) IT Engineer
6 61 (9.93%) IT Support Engineer
7 57 (9.28%) Embedded Engineer
8 56 (9.12%) Software Engineer
9 49 (7.98%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 45 (7.33%) IT Technician
11 36 (5.86%) Systems Engineer
12 31 (5.05%) Technical Engineer
13 27 (4.40%) Technical Support
13 27 (4.40%) Technical Support Engineer
14 24 (3.91%) Senior IT Technician
14 24 (3.91%) Senior Technician
15 23 (3.75%) Administrator
16 22 (3.58%) Lead
16 22 (3.58%) Support Technician
16 22 (3.58%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.44%) Yocto
2 4 (0.65%) pytest
2 4 (0.65%) Unity DI Container
3 3 (0.49%) Flash
3 3 (0.49%) Jinja
3 3 (0.49%) JSON
3 3 (0.49%) YAML
4 2 (0.33%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.52%) Driving Licence
2 41 (6.68%) Data Centre
3 39 (6.35%) IoT
4 35 (5.70%) Embedded Systems
5 27 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (4.23%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.75%) CCTV
8 15 (2.44%) Device Driver
9 14 (2.28%) FPGA
9 14 (2.28%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.12%) ASIC
10 13 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.63%) Raspberry Pi
12 8 (1.30%) ARM Cortex
12 8 (1.30%) Smart Home
13 7 (1.14%) Clustering
14 6 (0.98%) PMI
14 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
15 4 (0.65%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 158 (25.73%) Windows
2 116 (18.89%) Windows Server
3 30 (4.89%) Linux
4 25 (4.07%) Windows 10
5 19 (3.09%) Apple iOS
6 15 (2.44%) FreeRTOS
7 14 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.81%) Android
12 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 89 (14.50%) Software Engineering
4 85 (13.84%) Customer Service
5 47 (7.65%) Project Delivery
6 44 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (7.17%) Root Cause Analysis
7 41 (6.68%) Service Delivery
8 40 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 40 (6.51%) ITIL
9 37 (6.03%) Collaborative Culture
9 37 (6.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (5.21%) Mentoring
11 30 (4.89%) Network Monitoring
12 27 (4.40%) Decision-Making
12 27 (4.40%) Validation
13 26 (4.23%) CRM
13 26 (4.23%) ITSM
13 26 (4.23%) Network Design
14 25 (4.07%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 52 (8.47%) Python
2 47 (7.65%) C
3 37 (6.03%) C++
3 37 (6.03%) PowerShell
4 14 (2.28%) Embedded C
5 7 (1.14%) Ruby
6 6 (0.98%) Bash
6 6 (0.98%) SQL
7 5 (0.81%) Rust
8 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.33%) Bicep
9 2 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (14.17%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (12.38%) Degree
3 59 (9.61%) CCNP
4 56 (9.12%) DBS Check
5 43 (7.00%) CCNA
6 28 (4.56%) Network+ Certification
7 19 (3.09%) A+ Certification
8 16 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 15 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.44%) Security Cleared
10 14 (2.28%) SC Cleared
11 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.79%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.98%) CCIE
13 6 (0.98%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.81%) HNC
15 4 (0.65%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.49%) CISSP
16 3 (0.49%) HP APS
17 2 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.95%) GDPR
3 12 (1.95%) SLA
4 11 (1.79%) JTAG
5 4 (0.65%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.49%) ECSS
6 3 (0.49%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.49%) PMO
6 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.33%) QA
8 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 133 (21.66%) Active Directory
2 68 (11.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (8.63%) Hyper-V
4 36 (5.86%) Firmware
5 16 (2.61%) vSphere
6 12 (1.95%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.49%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.28%) FortiGate
3 10 (1.63%) Ansible
4 6 (0.98%) Terraform
5 5 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.65%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.65%) SCCM
7 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.16%) WSUS
9 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 193 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 133 (21.66%) Cisco
3 73 (11.89%) VMware
4 63 (10.26%) Fortinet
5 61 (9.93%) Aruba
6 30 (4.89%) Palo Alto
7 29 (4.72%) Juniper
7 29 (4.72%) Meraki
8 20 (3.26%) Ubiquiti
9 19 (3.09%) CheckPoint
10 16 (2.61%) HP
10 16 (2.61%) Veeam
11 13 (2.12%) F5
12 10 (1.63%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.47%) Sophos
14 8 (1.30%) Apple
14 8 (1.30%) HubSpot
14 8 (1.30%) SolarWinds
14 8 (1.30%) WatchGuard
15 6 (0.98%) Adobe