Wireless Security Job Trends

Wireless Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Wireless Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 675 788
Rank change year-on-year +24 +113 +197
Permanent jobs citing Wireless Security 16 10 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.020% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.15% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £54,375 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £61,632 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% -31.52% +56.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,887 £95,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £52,500 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireless Security 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 9,835 6,729 10,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.62% 13.64% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,924 3,552 8,499
10th Percentile £25,875 £31,018 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +16.28% -4.44%

Wireless Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Wireless Security job vacancy trend in the UK

Wireless Security
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireless Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireless Security

Wireless Security
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless Security within the UK over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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 +35 16 £80,000 +29.80% 6
UK excluding London +38 9 - - 4
North of England - 6 - - 1
North East - 6 - -
South East +13 3 - - 1
London +26 1 £80,000 +26.45% 3

Wireless Security
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:

Applications
1 12 (75.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 12 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Wireless
2 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 13 (81.25%) LAN
2 13 (81.25%) Network Security
2 13 (81.25%) VPN
2 13 (81.25%) WAN
3 12 (75.00%) BGP
3 12 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (75.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 12 (75.00%) EIGRP
3 12 (75.00%) OSPF
3 12 (75.00%) SNMP
3 12 (75.00%) VLAN
3 12 (75.00%) WAAS
4 1 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
General
1 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Network Engineer
2 12 (75.00%) Senior
2 12 (75.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Sales Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Sales Operations Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Root Cause Analysis
2 12 (75.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 12 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (75.00%) Kalman Filter
2 12 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 12 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 12 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 12 (75.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (6.25%) SIEM
3 1 (6.25%) SOAR
3 1 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) CCIE
1 12 (75.00%) CCNP
1 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco
2 12 (75.00%) Blue Coat
2 12 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 12 (75.00%) F5
2 12 (75.00%) Infoblox
2 12 (75.00%) Motorola
2 12 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 12 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Meraki
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft