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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 728 726
Rank change year-on-year +70 -2 +349
Permanent jobs citing Wireless Security 7 18 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.027% 0.015%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.23% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - £44,250 £43,450
25th Percentile - £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,382 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.76% -22.48%
75th Percentile - £67,887 £51,250
90th Percentile - £68,748 £55,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 6,523 7,812 8,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.76% 11.55% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 4,013 6,597
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 4 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 8 November 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 +77 7 - - 8
UK excluding London +78 6 - - 6
South East +42 6 - - 4
London +66 1 - - 4

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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) VLAN
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) IP Telephony
3 2 (28.57%) IPsec
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
3 2 (28.57%) WLAN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) WPA2
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Operations Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Sales Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Sales Operations Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) RF Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) RF Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Network Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (14.29%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) R
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CWDP
3 1 (14.29%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Riverbed
3 1 (14.29%) Arista
3 1 (14.29%) Aruba
3 1 (14.29%) Ekahau
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds