Wireless Job Trends

Wireless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 195 167
Rank change year-on-year -96 -28 +160
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 459 789 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.59% 1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.67% 11.67% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 330 311 1,003
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,125
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.38% -5.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireless 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 9,829 6,760 10,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.74% 13.58% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,923 3,597 8,409
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,890 £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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the UK

Wireless
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 -98 400 £50,000 -9.09% 276
UK excluding London -103 323 £42,500 -10.53% 257
South East -20 130 £42,500 - 86
London +14 122 £68,750 -14.06% 71
Work from Home -1 101 £51,000 -18.40% 72
Midlands -56 47 £52,500 - 38
North of England -57 39 £30,000 -45.45% 52
Scotland +5 38 £51,000 +40.69% 10
West Midlands -2 36 £61,000 +12.96% 21
East of England -64 34 £57,750 +5.00% 35
North West -18 19 £30,000 -52.00% 29
South West -28 18 £36,051 -37.30% 37
North East -9 11 £29,000 -63.75% 10
East Midlands -66 11 £36,000 +10.77% 17
Wales -13 10 £42,500 -1.16% 8
Yorkshire -58 9 £28,000 -7.44% 16
Northern Ireland - 7 £70,000 - 5

Wireless
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:

Application Platforms
1 33 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.65%) Confluence
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) nginx
4 2 (0.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.14%) MS Visio
3 17 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.22%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 131 (28.54%) Azure
2 104 (22.66%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 37 (8.06%) AWS
5 9 (1.96%) Google Workspace
5 9 (1.96%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.74%) GCP
7 7 (1.53%) SaaS
8 4 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.65%) Datadog
10 2 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.44%) IaaS
10 2 (0.44%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.44%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 186 (40.52%) Firewall
2 154 (33.55%) WAN
3 136 (29.63%) LAN
4 108 (23.53%) VPN
5 97 (21.13%) VLAN
6 89 (19.39%) SD-WAN
7 66 (14.38%) DNS
8 65 (14.16%) DHCP
9 62 (13.51%) BGP
10 59 (12.85%) Network Security
10 59 (12.85%) TCP/IP
11 57 (12.42%) Wi-Fi
12 56 (12.20%) OSPF
13 45 (9.80%) Cisco Wireless
14 42 (9.15%) WLAN
15 40 (8.71%) Wireshark
16 35 (7.63%) EIGRP
17 34 (7.41%) VoIP
18 30 (6.54%) Cisco Nexus
19 29 (6.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.31%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.44%) Metadata
4 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.44%) MySQL
4 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.22%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 10 (2.18%) Burp Suite
1 10 (2.18%) Metasploit
2 6 (1.31%) Git
2 6 (1.31%) JIRA
3 5 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.87%) Subversion
5 2 (0.44%) GitLab
5 2 (0.44%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.44%) MLflow
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 165 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.64%) Finance
3 54 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 27 (5.88%) Electronics
5 25 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 21 (4.58%) Retail
7 19 (4.14%) Law
8 12 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.96%) Wearables
10 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.53%) Marketing
12 6 (1.31%) Games
12 6 (1.31%) Military
12 6 (1.31%) Welsh Language
13 5 (1.09%) Automotive
13 5 (1.09%) Legal
14 3 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 99 (21.57%) Network Engineer
2 64 (13.94%) Senior
3 63 (13.73%) IT Support
4 55 (11.98%) Support Engineer
5 45 (9.80%) Analyst
6 37 (8.06%) IT Engineer
7 28 (6.10%) Senior Network Engineer
8 27 (5.88%) Support Analyst
9 26 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support
9 26 (5.66%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
11 23 (5.01%) Technical Engineer
11 23 (5.01%) Technical Support
12 22 (4.79%) Consultant
13 20 (4.36%) Lead
14 19 (4.14%) Technical Support Engineer
15 18 (3.92%) Cisco Consultant
15 18 (3.92%) Cisco Network Consultant
15 18 (3.92%) Network Consultant
15 18 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.40%) REST
2 5 (1.09%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.44%) FastAPI
3 2 (0.44%) Kafka
3 2 (0.44%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.44%) Web Services
3 2 (0.44%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.22%) MFC
4 1 (0.22%) NumPy
4 1 (0.22%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.22%) SciPy
4 1 (0.22%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 43 (9.37%) Management Information System
3 34 (7.41%) Driving Licence
3 34 (7.41%) IoT
4 31 (6.75%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.01%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.53%) iPhone
9 7 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.31%) CCTV
10 6 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.31%) iPad
11 5 (1.09%) PKI
11 5 (1.09%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.09%) Replication
12 4 (0.87%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 104 (22.66%) Windows
2 58 (12.64%) Windows Server
3 25 (5.45%) Windows 10
4 23 (5.01%) Apple iOS
5 17 (3.70%) Linux
6 11 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.18%) Android
8 9 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.74%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.87%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.22%) CentOS
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.22%) Rocky
12 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (19.83%) Customer Service
3 56 (12.20%) Network Monitoring
4 53 (11.55%) Change Management
5 51 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 45 (9.80%) ITIL
7 44 (9.59%) Coaching
7 44 (9.59%) Load Balancing
8 43 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (7.41%) Asset Management
9 34 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
9 34 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 33 (7.19%) Problem Management
11 32 (6.97%) Project Delivery
12 29 (6.32%) Agile
12 29 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (6.32%) Network Virtualisation
13 28 (6.10%) Software Engineering
14 27 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (13.29%) Python
2 38 (8.28%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.14%) C++
4 14 (3.05%) C
5 9 (1.96%) Bash
6 5 (1.09%) VB
7 4 (0.87%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.65%) SQL
9 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) Bicep
10 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 95 (20.70%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (18.52%) CCNP
3 62 (13.51%) Degree
4 25 (5.45%) CCIE
5 22 (4.79%) CCNA
5 22 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.79%) DBS Check
6 19 (4.14%) CHECK Team Member
6 19 (4.14%) CREST Certified
6 19 (4.14%) OSCP
7 18 (3.92%) CCSAM
7 18 (3.92%) CHECK Team Leader
7 18 (3.92%) Security Cleared
8 16 (3.49%) SC Cleared
9 7 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.09%) CWNA
12 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.65%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.70%) SLA
2 12 (2.61%) PMO
3 7 (1.53%) QA
4 6 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.31%) NIST
5 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.87%) GDPR
5 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 94 (20.48%) Active Directory
2 43 (9.37%) Hyper-V
3 32 (6.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.36%) Firmware
5 10 (2.18%) ProxySG
6 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (1.09%) vSphere
8 3 (0.65%) Docker
8 3 (0.65%) KVM
8 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.44%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.32%) Ansible
3 23 (5.01%) FortiGate
4 11 (2.40%) Nessus
4 11 (2.40%) Terraform
5 7 (1.53%) Grafana
6 6 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.87%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.65%) Autotask
8 3 (0.65%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.65%) SCCM
8 3 (0.65%) VxRail
9 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Nagios
9 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.22%) CA Spectrum
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.22%) Nmap
10 1 (0.22%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 166 (36.17%) Cisco
2 143 (31.15%) Microsoft
3 90 (19.61%) Meraki
4 61 (13.29%) SolarWinds
5 58 (12.64%) Palo Alto
6 48 (10.46%) CheckPoint
7 45 (9.80%) Fortinet
8 33 (7.19%) VMware
9 23 (5.01%) Aruba
9 23 (5.01%) F5
10 17 (3.70%) ServiceNow
10 17 (3.70%) Veeam
11 16 (3.49%) Infoblox
12 14 (3.05%) Apple
13 13 (2.83%) Juniper
13 13 (2.83%) SonicWALL
14 12 (2.61%) Motorola
15 10 (2.18%) Blue Coat
15 10 (2.18%) Google
16 9 (1.96%) HP