IEEE 802.11
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring 802.11 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited 802.11 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 862 967
Rank change year-on-year +188 +105 +219
Permanent jobs citing 802.11 10 23 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.023% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 4
10th Percentile £57,500 £32,625 £67,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £33,750 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £40,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -56.76% +37.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £40,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.67% +35.14%

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 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 802.11.

Salary trend for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 802.11 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for 802.11 in the UK

802.11
Top 6 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 30 April 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 +175 9 £80,000 +100.00% 6
Work from Home +181 6 £85,000 +6.25% 16
London +109 6 £85,000 - 1
UK excluding London +189 4 £80,000 +100.00% 6
East of England +54 3 £80,000 - 2
Wales - 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 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Wireless
2 9 (90.00%) BGP
2 9 (90.00%) LAN
2 9 (90.00%) MPLS
2 9 (90.00%) OSPF
2 9 (90.00%) WAN
3 8 (80.00%) DHCP
3 8 (80.00%) DNS
4 7 (70.00%) Multicast
5 6 (60.00%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (60.00%) DWDM
5 6 (60.00%) GLBP
5 6 (60.00%) IGRP
5 6 (60.00%) WLAN
6 4 (40.00%) VPN
7 3 (30.00%) Firewall
7 3 (30.00%) IPsec
7 3 (30.00%) Network Security
7 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (30.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Juniper Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Network Operations Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (60.00%) Network Management
1 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 6 (60.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) BCP
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) Presales
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNA
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Arista
2 6 (60.00%) Juniper
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Riverbed
3 3 (30.00%) Avaya
3 3 (30.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) ForeScout
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) SevOne
4 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks