WLAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WLAN over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 570 665
Rank change year-on-year +89 +95 -89
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 235 108 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.92% 1.19% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 112 92 186
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,550 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +11.84% +1.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £69,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +18.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

WLAN 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 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
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 WLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Midlands +71 101 £48,500 +11.36% 4
West Midlands +72 79 £48,500 +106.38% 3
North of England +36 61 £44,250 -15.71% 3
Yorkshire +87 39 £37,500 -31.82%
South East -9 33 £50,000 +25.00% 16
North West +5 29 £60,000 +6.67% 3
East of England +15 22 £75,000 +150.00% 4
South West +11 22 £49,750 +15.70% 2
East Midlands -8 22 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Wales +27 3 £44,886 -28.46% 1
Scotland - 3 £65,000 -
North East -17 2 £43,500 +31.82%
Northern Ireland +17 1 - - 3
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.40%) IIS
2 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (8.94%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.34%) Azure
2 69 (29.36%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (15.32%) Entra ID
4 13 (5.53%) AWS
5 9 (3.83%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.98%) GCP
6 7 (2.98%) SaaS
7 5 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.13%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.70%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.28%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.85%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.85%) IaaS
10 2 (0.85%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.85%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.85%) PaaS
10 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.85%) Serverless
11 1 (0.43%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 157 (66.81%) LAN
2 122 (51.91%) WAN
3 90 (38.30%) Network Security
4 69 (29.36%) Internet
5 55 (23.40%) Firewall
6 46 (19.57%) Wireless
7 44 (18.72%) SD-WAN
8 38 (16.17%) VPN
9 29 (12.34%) DNS
9 29 (12.34%) OSPF
9 29 (12.34%) TCP/IP
10 26 (11.06%) BGP
10 26 (11.06%) DHCP
10 26 (11.06%) MPLS
11 25 (10.64%) VLAN
12 16 (6.81%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (5.53%) SAN
13 13 (5.53%) VoIP
14 8 (3.40%) EIGRP
14 8 (3.40%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.13%) MySQL
3 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 57 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.94%) Retail
3 11 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.68%) Finance
4 6 (2.55%) Automotive
4 6 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.70%) Agriculture
7 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.28%) Local Government
7 3 (1.28%) Police
7 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (34.47%) IT Support
2 80 (34.04%) IT Engineer
3 72 (30.64%) Support Engineer
4 67 (28.51%) IT Support Engineer
5 58 (24.68%) Analyst
6 28 (11.91%) Operations Analyst
6 28 (11.91%) Support Analyst
7 26 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (11.06%) Senior
8 25 (10.64%) Network Analyst
9 24 (10.21%) Network Engineer
9 24 (10.21%) Network Operations Analyst
10 16 (6.81%) IT Analyst
11 13 (5.53%) 2nd Line Support
12 11 (4.68%) IT Support Analyst
12 11 (4.68%) Senior Network Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) 3rd Line Support
14 8 (3.40%) LAN Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.28%) Web Services
2 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.43%) LDAP
2 1 (0.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (29.79%) Driving Licence
2 68 (28.94%) Onboarding
3 20 (8.51%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.40%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.40%) Smartphone
5 7 (2.98%) FMCG
5 7 (2.98%) PMI
5 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.55%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.13%) EMC VNX
8 4 (1.70%) PKI
9 2 (0.85%) CCTV
9 2 (0.85%) CMDB
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.85%) Robotics
9 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.43%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 132 (56.17%) Windows
2 84 (35.74%) Linux
3 39 (16.60%) Windows 10
4 33 (14.04%) Windows Server
5 15 (6.38%) Android
6 14 (5.96%) Apple iOS
7 13 (5.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (2.98%) Mac OS X
9 7 (2.98%) Windows 7
10 6 (2.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.70%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.70%) VMS
12 3 (1.28%) CentOS
12 3 (1.28%) Rocky
12 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.96%) ITIL
2 89 (37.87%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (34.47%) Computer Science
4 77 (32.77%) Mentoring
5 73 (31.06%) Network Management
6 68 (28.94%) Asset Management
7 67 (28.51%) IT Asset Management
8 47 (20.00%) Customer Service
9 31 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (12.77%) Service Delivery
11 28 (11.91%) Change Management
12 26 (11.06%) Service Management
13 17 (7.23%) Inventory Management
13 17 (7.23%) Network Architecture
14 16 (6.81%) ITSM
14 16 (6.81%) Project Delivery
15 15 (6.38%) Presales
16 14 (5.96%) Coaching
17 13 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
18 12 (5.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.21%) SQL
2 12 (5.11%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.13%) Bash
3 5 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 103 (43.83%) Cisco Certification
2 95 (40.43%) CCNP
3 90 (38.30%) Degree
4 87 (37.02%) CCNA
5 84 (35.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (34.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 78 (33.19%) MCSE
8 69 (29.36%) MCP
9 67 (28.51%) LPIC
10 17 (7.23%) CCIE
11 15 (6.38%) CCDP
12 7 (2.98%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 7 (2.98%) PMI Certification
12 7 (2.98%) SC Cleared
12 7 (2.98%) Security Cleared
13 6 (2.55%) HNC
13 6 (2.55%) HND
13 6 (2.55%) MCSA
14 5 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (1.28%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.81%) SLA
2 4 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (33.19%) Active Directory
2 37 (15.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.11%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.68%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (4.68%) vSphere
5 7 (2.98%) Firmware
6 5 (2.13%) Docker
7 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.85%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (7.66%) SCCM
3 8 (3.40%) Nagios
4 7 (2.98%) vCenter Server
4 7 (2.98%) WSUS
5 5 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.70%) Ansible
7 3 (1.28%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.28%) OfficeScan
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.43%) SCOM
9 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 155 (65.96%) Microsoft
2 117 (49.79%) Cisco
3 53 (22.55%) VMware
4 22 (9.36%) SolarWinds
5 18 (7.66%) Veeam
6 16 (6.81%) Fortinet
7 15 (6.38%) Citrix
8 13 (5.53%) Aruba
9 11 (4.68%) Meraki
9 11 (4.68%) Palo Alto
10 10 (4.26%) Sophos
11 9 (3.83%) Google
12 8 (3.40%) Apple
13 7 (2.98%) Ekahau
13 7 (2.98%) HP
14 6 (2.55%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.55%) Dell
14 6 (2.55%) Juniper
14 6 (2.55%) Ubiquiti
15 5 (2.13%) LogicMonitor