Wireless Jobs

Wireless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 190 329
Rank change year-on-year -42 +139 -113
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 843 1,034 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.75% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.05% 12.50% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 354 764 771
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,075 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.02% -2.01% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £92,125 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,375 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +23.44% -11.11% -

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 10,474 8,273 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.09% 14.04% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,768 6,394 9,139
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless over the 6 months to 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the UK

Wireless
Top 16 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 16 January 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 -40 793 £55,000 +22.22% 211
UK excluding London 0 645 £49,375 +23.44% 166
South East -3 201 £47,500 +18.01% 55
Work from Home -89 176 £62,500 +25.00% 151
London -129 173 £80,000 +33.33% 56
Midlands -15 136 £54,000 +33.95% 20
East of England +19 133 £55,000 +37.50% 22
North of England -44 100 £40,000 - 39
East Midlands +19 69 £30,441 -3.36% 12
West Midlands -59 67 £54,000 +16.13% 8
North West -45 48 £55,000 - 21
Yorkshire +11 37 £30,000 -6.98% 15
South West -47 33 £55,000 +30.95% 13
Wales +40 25 £44,000 -7.37% 3
Scotland -17 20 £37,500 -21.04% 14
North East -11 15 £80,000 +105.10% 3

Wireless
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 53 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.24%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
1 5 (0.59%) SAP ERP
1 5 (0.59%) SAP SD
2 4 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 187 (22.18%) Azure
2 90 (10.68%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (6.29%) AWS
4 47 (5.58%) Entra ID
5 22 (2.61%) SaaS
6 11 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (1.19%) IaaS
8 9 (1.07%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.59%) Slack
10 4 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.47%) GCP
10 4 (0.47%) Google Workspace
10 4 (0.47%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.36%) Dropbox
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.36%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.36%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 295 (34.99%) Wi-Fi
2 260 (30.84%) Bluetooth
3 254 (30.13%) LTE
4 253 (30.01%) 5G
5 243 (28.83%) GSM
6 236 (28.00%) UMTS
7 231 (27.40%) Firewall
8 188 (22.30%) LAN
9 178 (21.12%) WAN
10 111 (13.17%) Network Security
11 110 (13.05%) DNS
11 110 (13.05%) VPN
12 109 (12.93%) DHCP
13 80 (9.49%) TCP/IP
14 71 (8.42%) SD-WAN
15 69 (8.19%) Internet
16 68 (8.07%) WLAN
17 61 (7.24%) Cisco Nexus
18 58 (6.88%) VLAN
19 51 (6.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.19%) Big Data
2 10 (1.19%) Data Lake
2 10 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (0.95%) Power BI
4 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (2.25%) JIRA
2 11 (1.30%) Burp Suite
2 11 (1.30%) Metasploit
2 11 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (0.95%) Git
3 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.12%) GDB
5 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 252 (29.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 248 (29.42%) Automotive
3 184 (21.83%) Social Skills
4 59 (7.00%) Telecoms
5 53 (6.29%) Finance
6 41 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (4.03%) Electronics
8 32 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 32 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.32%) Law
11 24 (2.85%) Marketing
12 20 (2.37%) Retail
13 18 (2.14%) Legal
14 14 (1.66%) Welsh Language
15 12 (1.42%) Back Office
15 12 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.19%) Games
17 9 (1.07%) Advertising
18 6 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (28.11%) Test Engineer
2 235 (27.88%) EMC Engineer
2 235 (27.88%) EMC Test Engineer
3 143 (16.96%) Senior
4 138 (16.37%) Network Engineer
5 67 (7.95%) Analyst
6 50 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 49 (5.81%) Senior Network Engineer
8 41 (4.86%) Consultant
8 41 (4.86%) IT Engineer
9 38 (4.51%) IT Support
10 37 (4.39%) Software Engineer
11 35 (4.15%) Architect
12 33 (3.91%) Network Consultant
13 29 (3.44%) Embedded Engineer
14 27 (3.20%) Lead
14 27 (3.20%) Senior Consultant
15 25 (2.97%) IT Analyst
15 25 (2.97%) Senior Network Consultant
16 22 (2.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.63%) 802.1X
2 10 (1.19%) HTML
3 8 (0.95%) Yocto
4 6 (0.71%) LDAP
5 5 (0.59%) CSS
5 5 (0.59%) Middleware
5 5 (0.59%) Web Services
5 5 (0.59%) YAML
6 3 (0.36%) React
7 2 (0.24%) Flask
7 2 (0.24%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.24%) Node.js
7 2 (0.24%) NumPy
7 2 (0.24%) SAML
7 2 (0.24%) SciPy
8 1 (0.12%) EDI
8 1 (0.12%) HTML5
8 1 (0.12%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 236 (28.00%) Satnav
2 61 (7.24%) IoT
3 56 (6.64%) Data Centre
4 54 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (3.68%) Driving Licence
6 23 (2.73%) CCTV
7 21 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.25%) Smartphone
9 16 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
9 16 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
9 16 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
10 12 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (1.30%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.30%) Device Driver
12 10 (1.19%) NB-IoT
12 10 (1.19%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (23.37%) Windows
2 86 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 80 (9.49%) Linux
4 61 (7.24%) Windows 10
5 30 (3.56%) Android
6 18 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.78%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (1.30%) Kali Linux
9 9 (1.07%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (1.07%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.24%) Debian
12 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.24%) Solaris
12 2 (0.24%) SUSE
12 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (32.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 241 (28.59%) Test Automation
3 236 (28.00%) Data Management
3 236 (28.00%) Test Scripting
4 122 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (10.32%) ITIL
6 79 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
7 73 (8.66%) Customer Service
8 70 (8.30%) Roadmaps
9 61 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 52 (6.17%) Network Management
11 48 (5.69%) Agile
12 45 (5.34%) Software Engineering
13 41 (4.86%) Service Delivery
14 40 (4.74%) Time Management
15 38 (4.51%) Disaster Recovery
16 34 (4.03%) Project Delivery
17 33 (3.91%) Migration
18 31 (3.68%) Information Security
18 31 (3.68%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (5.34%) Python
2 36 (4.27%) C
3 35 (4.15%) C++
4 16 (1.90%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.19%) Bash
6 9 (1.07%) SQL
7 8 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.83%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.83%) PHP
9 6 (0.71%) Java
10 3 (0.36%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.36%) Go
10 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.24%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.24%) C#
11 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 324 (38.43%) Degree
2 122 (14.47%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (9.13%) CCNP
4 61 (7.24%) CCNA
5 39 (4.63%) CCIE
6 25 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (2.02%) CREST Certified
8 17 (2.02%) OSCP
8 17 (2.02%) Security Cleared
9 16 (1.90%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.66%) CWNA
11 13 (1.54%) CWTS
12 10 (1.19%) CHECK Team Leader
12 10 (1.19%) CISSP
12 10 (1.19%) GIAC
13 9 (1.07%) MBA
13 9 (1.07%) MCP
13 9 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.03%) SLA
2 32 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.73%) GDPR
4 22 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 17 (2.02%) NIST
7 16 (1.90%) QA
8 13 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.83%) Automotive SPICE
10 7 (0.83%) AUTOSAR
10 7 (0.83%) NCSC
11 5 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.47%) GRC
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.36%) MISRA
13 3 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 131 (15.54%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.63%) Hyper-V
3 38 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (4.03%) Firmware
5 15 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.95%) Docker
7 4 (0.47%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.36%) vSphere
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (3.68%) FortiGate
3 19 (2.25%) Ansible
4 17 (2.02%) Terraform
5 11 (1.30%) SCCM
5 11 (1.30%) WSUS
6 10 (1.19%) Nessus
7 8 (0.95%) Nmap
8 5 (0.59%) WMI
9 3 (0.36%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.36%) Cisco CME
9 3 (0.36%) Grafana
9 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.24%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.24%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.24%) QRadar
10 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 245 (29.06%) EMC
2 195 (23.13%) Microsoft
3 183 (21.71%) Cisco
4 52 (6.17%) VMware
5 48 (5.69%) Palo Alto
6 38 (4.51%) SolarWinds
7 37 (4.39%) Meraki
8 35 (4.15%) Aruba
9 32 (3.80%) F5
10 31 (3.68%) Apple
11 26 (3.08%) Fortinet
12 25 (2.97%) Veeam
13 21 (2.49%) Juniper
14 18 (2.14%) HP
15 17 (2.02%) SAP
16 15 (1.78%) Infoblox
16 15 (1.78%) Riverbed
17 13 (1.54%) Dell
18 12 (1.42%) Avaya
18 12 (1.42%) Zscaler