CWNA Job Trends

CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CWNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 701 704
Rank change year-on-year +55 +3 +305
Permanent jobs citing CWNA 4 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.033% 0.027%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.021% 0.092% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 13
10th Percentile - £33,625 £31,000
25th Percentile £58,011 £37,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £43,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.83% -45.63% +60.00%
75th Percentile £71,017 £46,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £77,007 £50,688 £91,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £43,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year - +22.54% -27.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CWNA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,408 19,496 15,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.72% 35.21% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,815 7,847 10,632
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

CWNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CWNA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CWNA job vacancy trend in the UK

CWNA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CWNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CWNA

CWNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CWNA over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CWNA in the UK

CWNA
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CWNA within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 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 - 4 £59,522 - 1
London - 1 - -

CWNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) WLAN
3 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (25.00%) BGP
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
4 1 (25.00%) WPA2
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Network Design
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (25.00%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCNA
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) RIBA
4 1 (25.00%) CCNP
4 1 (25.00%) CWDP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Ekahau
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds