Wireless Security Job Trends

Wireless Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Wireless Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 775 771
Rank change year-on-year +110 -4 +382
Permanent jobs citing Wireless Security 11 21 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.22% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 5
10th Percentile - £32,850 £43,450
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £67,887 £51,250
90th Percentile - - £55,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -23.08%

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 7,231 9,414 9,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.62% 12.05% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,036 4,929 6,859
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,360 £27,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

Wireless Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless Security 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 5 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 18 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 +99 11 £45,000 -14.29% 3
UK excluding London +112 10 £45,000 -10.00% 3
East of England - 6 £45,000 -
South East +48 4 - - 1
London +58 1 - - 1

Wireless Security
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Storage
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Wireless
2 10 (90.91%) DHCP
2 10 (90.91%) DNS
3 9 (81.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) Firewall
4 4 (36.36%) LAN
4 4 (36.36%) VLAN
4 4 (36.36%) VPN
4 4 (36.36%) WAN
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco Wireless
5 3 (27.27%) IP Telephony
5 3 (27.27%) IPsec
5 3 (27.27%) MPLS
5 3 (27.27%) Spanning Tree
5 3 (27.27%) Wireshark
5 3 (27.27%) WLAN
6 1 (9.09%) BGP
6 1 (9.09%) OSPF
6 1 (9.09%) WPA2
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) 3rd Line Support
1 6 (54.55%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Administrator
1 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (54.55%) Systems Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Systems Support
1 6 (54.55%) Systems Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Network Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) RF Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) RF Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) VMS
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Project Management
2 6 (54.55%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (54.55%) Storage Management
3 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Information Security
4 3 (27.27%) Network Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (9.09%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) R
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CCNP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) CWDP
3 1 (9.09%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Riverbed
4 1 (9.09%) Arista
4 1 (9.09%) Aruba
4 1 (9.09%) Ekahau
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds