Wireless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 58 141
Rank change year-on-year -129 +83 +49
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,061 3,312 1,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.52% 5.32% 2.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.85% 29.93% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 867 525 703
10th Percentile £23,000 £22,200 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% -5.49%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wireless is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,777 11,064 10,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.99% 17.78% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,126 4,920 6,508
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
South East -64 339 £36,500 +4.29% 89
North of England -134 213 £40,000 -11.11% 51
Midlands -110 147 £45,000 +28.57% 33
East of England -62 139 £60,000 +33.33% 46
North West -113 126 £40,000 -11.11% 29
South West -114 120 £37,500 +13.64% 45
Scotland -97 109 £52,500 +16.67% 22
West Midlands -79 101 £51,250 +57.69% 16
Yorkshire -75 88 £33,625 -25.28% 18
East Midlands -114 40 £37,000 -22.11% 17
Wales -38 30 £35,000 -12.50% 4
North East -83 14 £39,500 +5.33% 5
Northern Ireland -6 4 £37,500 +3.45% 4
Wireless
UK

Wireless
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
1 122 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.32%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.66%) IIS
5 6 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2000
6 5 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.38%) SAS
7 4 (0.38%) WordPress
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.094%) nginx
Applications
1 122 (11.50%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.47%) Simulink
6 4 (0.38%) OrCAD
7 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.094%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 280 (26.39%) Microsoft 365
2 210 (19.79%) Azure
3 61 (5.75%) AWS
4 58 (5.47%) Entra ID
5 47 (4.43%) Google Workspace
6 20 (1.89%) OneDrive
7 16 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (1.51%) IaaS
8 13 (1.23%) GCP
9 7 (0.66%) AWS IoT
9 7 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.57%) Dropbox
10 6 (0.57%) PaaS
10 6 (0.57%) Twilio
11 5 (0.47%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.47%) GitHub
11 5 (0.47%) Serverless
12 4 (0.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 307 (28.93%) Firewall
2 271 (25.54%) LAN
3 244 (23.00%) WAN
4 211 (19.89%) Wi-Fi
5 136 (12.82%) TCP/IP
6 132 (12.44%) DNS
7 113 (10.65%) VPN
8 110 (10.37%) DHCP
9 76 (7.16%) Internet
10 72 (6.79%) OSPF
10 72 (6.79%) SD-WAN
11 71 (6.69%) MPLS
12 70 (6.60%) Bluetooth
12 70 (6.60%) VLAN
13 68 (6.41%) BGP
14 61 (5.75%) Ethernet
15 60 (5.66%) Network Security
16 55 (5.18%) LTE
17 54 (5.09%) VoIP
18 49 (4.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.66%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.38%) MySQL
5 3 (0.28%) Power BI
6 2 (0.19%) Big Data
6 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.19%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.094%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.094%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.094%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.094%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (2.54%) Git
2 24 (2.26%) JIRA
3 22 (2.07%) LabVIEW
4 10 (0.94%) Subversion
5 8 (0.75%) Burp Suite
5 8 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.75%) Metasploit
6 6 (0.57%) GDB
7 5 (0.47%) Xcode
8 4 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.19%) PetaLinux
10 1 (0.094%) GitLab
10 1 (0.094%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.094%) TeamCity
General
1 329 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 117 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (10.18%) Telecoms
4 105 (9.90%) Electronics
5 93 (8.77%) Finance
6 79 (7.45%) Manufacturing
7 65 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (3.49%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.39%) Retail
10 26 (2.45%) Legal
10 26 (2.45%) Marketing
10 26 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (2.36%) Games
12 19 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
13 18 (1.70%) Automotive
14 16 (1.51%) Law
15 15 (1.41%) Local Government
16 13 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 12 (1.13%) Military
18 11 (1.04%) Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (16.97%) Senior
2 167 (15.74%) Network Engineer
3 149 (14.04%) IT Support
4 141 (13.29%) Embedded Engineer
5 138 (13.01%) Support Engineer
6 99 (9.33%) Software Engineer
7 90 (8.48%) IT Engineer
8 78 (7.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 73 (6.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 70 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 66 (6.22%) Support Technician
12 65 (6.13%) IT Technician
13 64 (6.03%) Analyst
14 56 (5.28%) Senior Network Engineer
15 47 (4.43%) IT Support Technician
16 43 (4.05%) Hardware Engineer
16 43 (4.05%) Junior
17 42 (3.96%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 41 (3.86%) Technical Support
19 39 (3.68%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.70%) Yocto
2 15 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 12 (1.13%) REST
4 8 (0.75%) React
5 6 (0.57%) HTML
5 6 (0.57%) HTML5
5 6 (0.57%) Redux
6 5 (0.47%) Apache Cordova
6 5 (0.47%) Core Animation
6 5 (0.47%) Core Data
6 5 (0.47%) RESTful
7 4 (0.38%) Flash
7 4 (0.38%) LAMP
8 3 (0.28%) .NET
8 3 (0.28%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.28%) OAuth
8 3 (0.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 96 (9.05%) Driving Licence
2 79 (7.45%) Data Centre
3 64 (6.03%) IoT
4 55 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (3.77%) Embedded Systems
5 40 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.58%) CCTV
7 23 (2.17%) Device Driver
7 23 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.07%) Acoustics
8 22 (2.07%) Satnav
9 21 (1.98%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.89%) Replication
11 13 (1.23%) FPGA
12 12 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
12 12 (1.13%) Clustering
13 10 (0.94%) Analogue Electronics
13 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 335 (31.57%) Windows
2 151 (14.23%) Windows Server
3 130 (12.25%) Linux
4 86 (8.11%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.43%) Embedded Linux
6 46 (4.34%) Apple iOS
7 43 (4.05%) Mac OS
7 43 (4.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (3.30%) Android
8 35 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (1.79%) VyOS
11 17 (1.60%) Mac OS X
12 10 (0.94%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.75%) Windows 8
14 7 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
14 7 (0.66%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.66%) Unix
14 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (15.46%) Software Engineering
3 150 (14.14%) Customer Service
4 112 (10.56%) Agile
5 100 (9.43%) ITIL
6 89 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 83 (7.82%) Computer Science
8 73 (6.88%) Mathematics
9 54 (5.09%) Project Delivery
10 52 (4.90%) Coaching
11 49 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
12 48 (4.52%) Mentoring
12 48 (4.52%) Project Management
13 46 (4.34%) Physics
14 41 (3.86%) Service Delivery
15 40 (3.77%) Service Management
16 39 (3.68%) Kalman Filter
16 39 (3.68%) Network Management
16 39 (3.68%) Test Automation
17 37 (3.49%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (15.08%) C
2 95 (8.95%) Python
3 91 (8.58%) Embedded C
4 69 (6.50%) PowerShell
5 43 (4.05%) C++
6 32 (3.02%) SQL
7 22 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.89%) C#
9 17 (1.60%) Bash
10 12 (1.13%) Java
11 10 (0.94%) Assembly Language
12 9 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.57%) Swift
14 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.47%) VB
15 3 (0.28%) Perl
16 2 (0.19%) PHP
16 2 (0.19%) R
16 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.094%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 211 (19.89%) Degree
2 157 (14.80%) Cisco Certification
3 126 (11.88%) CCNA
4 86 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 70 (6.60%) SC Cleared
6 59 (5.56%) CCNP
7 50 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (4.05%) DBS Check
9 34 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
10 28 (2.64%) JNCIA
11 26 (2.45%) CCIE
12 23 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (2.07%) MCITP
14 16 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.51%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (1.23%) MCP
16 11 (1.04%) MCSA
17 9 (0.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.43%) SLA
2 33 (3.11%) GDPR
3 15 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (0.94%) QA
6 8 (0.75%) IEC 62304
6 8 (0.75%) ISO 13485
6 8 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 8 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.66%) JTAG
8 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.57%) MISRA
9 5 (0.47%) NIST
10 4 (0.38%) Automotive SPICE
10 4 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
10 4 (0.38%) IEC 61131
11 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.094%) MISRA C
System Software
1 227 (21.39%) Active Directory
2 127 (11.97%) Firmware
3 93 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (8.11%) Hyper-V
5 50 (4.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 21 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.89%) vSphere
8 13 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.66%) XenApp
10 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.47%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.47%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.19%) Docker
13 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.094%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.094%) NFS
14 1 (0.094%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 76 (7.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (4.15%) SCCM
3 21 (1.98%) Ansible
4 16 (1.51%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.32%) SmoothWall
6 13 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 13 (1.23%) ServiceCenter
7 9 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.85%) SCOM
7 9 (0.85%) Terraform
7 9 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (0.75%) Nmap
8 8 (0.75%) WSUS
9 7 (0.66%) PaperCut
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.47%) Opsview
11 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (0.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 328 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 260 (24.51%) Cisco
3 134 (12.63%) VMware
4 86 (8.11%) Aruba
5 81 (7.63%) Fortinet
6 73 (6.88%) Meraki
7 65 (6.13%) Google
8 63 (5.94%) Apple
9 57 (5.37%) Juniper
10 55 (5.18%) Palo Alto
11 46 (4.34%) Ruckus Wireless
12 43 (4.05%) Veeam
13 36 (3.39%) HP
14 33 (3.11%) Citrix
15 32 (3.02%) CheckPoint
16 28 (2.64%) Nokia
17 19 (1.79%) Draytek
17 19 (1.79%) Vyatta
18 17 (1.60%) EMC
18 17 (1.60%) Sophos