802.11 Job Trends

IEEE 802.11
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring 802.11 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 770 762
Rank change year-on-year +119 -8 +427
Permanent jobs citing 802.11 19 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.021% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 5
10th Percentile - £58,641 £44,500
25th Percentile - £66,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +35.00% -29.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £82,000 £64,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £80,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% +60.00% +14.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

802.11 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,135 9,236 9,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.52% 11.91% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,966 4,939 6,975
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,297 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,985
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -1.93% -2.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

802.11
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 802.11 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 802.11.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing 802.11

802.11
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 802.11 over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 802.11 within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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
England +127 16 £40,000 -50.00% 2
UK excluding London +104 15 £40,000 -50.00% 2
South East +47 7 £40,000 - 2
South West +78 5 - -
London +85 3 £65,000 +2.74%
East of England -7 1 £65,000 -18.75%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

802.11
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) AutoCAD
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) Wireless
2 11 (57.89%) LTE
3 10 (52.63%) VSAT
4 9 (47.37%) WAN
5 8 (42.11%) LAN
6 6 (31.58%) Network Security
6 6 (31.58%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (26.32%) BGP
7 5 (26.32%) IPsec
7 5 (26.32%) OSPF
7 5 (26.32%) SD-WAN
7 5 (26.32%) VoIP
7 5 (26.32%) VPN
8 4 (21.05%) 5G
8 4 (21.05%) Firewall
8 4 (21.05%) Internet
8 4 (21.05%) MPLS
8 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
8 4 (21.05%) VLAN
8 4 (21.05%) WLAN
General
1 13 (68.42%) Manufacturing
2 10 (52.63%) Aerospace
2 10 (52.63%) Automotive
2 10 (52.63%) Billing
2 10 (52.63%) Electronics
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Games
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Support Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Technical Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Technical Support
1 10 (52.63%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (21.05%) BYOD
2 4 (21.05%) IoT
3 3 (15.79%) CCTV
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Commercial Awareness
1 10 (52.63%) Customer Service
1 10 (52.63%) Fault Management
1 10 (52.63%) Proactive Monitoring
1 10 (52.63%) Statistics
2 5 (26.32%) Network Design
2 5 (26.32%) Presales
3 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (21.05%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) Economics
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Logistics
4 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
5 2 (10.53%) Network Optimisation
6 1 (5.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) CCNA
1 11 (57.89%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (52.63%) GCSC
2 10 (52.63%) JNCIA
2 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Freshdesk
2 4 (21.05%) Avaya
2 4 (21.05%) F5
2 4 (21.05%) Ruckus Wireless
3 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) SevOne
3 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft