Wireless Engineer
UK

The median Wireless Engineer salary in the UK is £36,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 888 964 1174
Rank change year-on-year +76 +210 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a Wireless Engineer 17 9 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.009% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.009% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 44
10th Percentile - - £30,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £37,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -46.79% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £57,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% -35.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Wireless Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Wireless Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless Engineer in the UK

Wireless Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless Engineer.

Salary trend for Wireless Engineer in the UK

Wireless Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Wireless Engineer in the UK

Wireless Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +120 17 £36,000 -3.36% 1
UK excluding London -4 8 £35,000 -22.22% 1
London +138 7 £36,000 +22.03%
South East +27 7 £35,000 +18.64% 1
Work from Home +82 6 £35,000 -22.22%
East of England - 2 £51,250 -
Yorkshire +90 1 £52,500 +16.67%
North of England +33 1 £52,500 +16.67%
Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
North West - 1 £52,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 -

Wireless Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Wireless Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Wireless Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Wireless
2 13 (76.47%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (58.82%) Firewall
4 9 (52.94%) DNS
4 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
5 8 (47.06%) Aruba
5 8 (47.06%) Cisco
5 8 (47.06%) Juniper
6 7 (41.18%) VLAN
6 7 (41.18%) DHCP
6 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
6 7 (41.18%) LAN
6 7 (41.18%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (35.29%) Meraki
8 5 (29.41%) CCTV
8 5 (29.41%) Yealink
8 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (29.41%) Creative Thinking
8 5 (29.41%) VoIP
8 5 (29.41%) Broadband
8 5 (29.41%) WAN
8 5 (29.41%) VPN
8 5 (29.41%) Ethernet
8 5 (29.41%) HP
8 5 (29.41%) Logitech
9 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
10 3 (17.65%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (17.65%) Linux
10 3 (17.65%) CCNP

Wireless Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Wireless
2 13 (76.47%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (58.82%) Firewall
4 9 (52.94%) DNS
5 7 (41.18%) DHCP
5 7 (41.18%) LAN
5 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
5 7 (41.18%) VLAN
6 5 (29.41%) Broadband
6 5 (29.41%) Ethernet
6 5 (29.41%) VoIP
6 5 (29.41%) VPN
6 5 (29.41%) WAN
7 2 (11.76%) BGP
7 2 (11.76%) GPON
7 2 (11.76%) Network Security
7 2 (11.76%) OSPF
7 2 (11.76%) PPP
7 2 (11.76%) WLAN
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) CCTV
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Debian
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (29.41%) Creative Thinking
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.88%) Mathematical Modelling
5 1 (5.88%) Mathematics
5 1 (5.88%) Physics
5 1 (5.88%) Presales
5 1 (5.88%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) Embedded C
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CCNP
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) JNCIS
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Icinga
1 2 (11.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Aruba
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco
1 8 (47.06%) Juniper
2 6 (35.29%) Meraki
3 5 (29.41%) HP
3 5 (29.41%) Logitech
3 5 (29.41%) Yealink
4 3 (17.65%) Ruckus Wireless
5 2 (11.76%) MikroTik
5 2 (11.76%) TP-LINK
5 2 (11.76%) ZyXEL
6 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) Polycom