Wireless Security Jobs

Wireless Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Wireless Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireless Security over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 879 907
Rank change year-on-year +177 +28 +327
Permanent jobs citing Wireless Security 14 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.077% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile - £29,763 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £30,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -25.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £45,875 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £53,125 £57,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £37,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.81% -25.50% -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 11,973 13,063 13,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.97% 12.64% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,684 8,794 7,601
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £47,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% -7.50% -2.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -2.22% -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

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

Salary trend for Wireless Security in the UK

Wireless Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless Security over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireless Security in the UK

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 14 July 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 +149 14 £45,000 +20.81% 8
UK excluding London +159 11 £45,000 +20.81% 10
East of England - 6 £45,000 -
South East +70 5 £47,500 +48.44% 5
Work from Home - 3 £60,000 - 4
London - 3 £60,000 - 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Storage
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Wireless
2 12 (85.71%) DHCP
2 12 (85.71%) DNS
3 9 (64.29%) TCP/IP
4 7 (50.00%) LAN
4 7 (50.00%) WAN
5 6 (42.86%) Firewall
5 6 (42.86%) VPN
6 4 (28.57%) VLAN
7 3 (21.43%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (21.43%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (21.43%) IP Telephony
7 3 (21.43%) IPsec
7 3 (21.43%) MPLS
7 3 (21.43%) Spanning Tree
7 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
7 3 (21.43%) WLAN
8 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (14.29%) Network Security
9 1 (7.14%) WPA2
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
1 6 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Administrator
1 6 (42.86%) Support Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Systems Support
1 6 (42.86%) Systems Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Network Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) RF Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) RF Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) VMS
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Information Security
4 3 (21.43%) Network Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Market Research
6 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
6 1 (7.14%) Presales
6 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) R
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) CCNP
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) CCNA
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CWDP
5 1 (7.14%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) Meraki
3 3 (21.43%) Riverbed
4 2 (14.29%) Darktrace
4 2 (14.29%) Yardi
5 1 (7.14%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) Ekahau
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds