Wireless
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 196 343 341
Rank change year-on-year +147 -2 -83
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 964 1,251 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 1.02% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.15% 8.25% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 754 873 1,153
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £33,053 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireless is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,935 15,167 16,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 12.41% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,194 10,320 11,502
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,528 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +150 879 £47,500 -5.00% 426
UK excluding London +69 592 £40,000 -11.11% 345
Work from Home +174 367 £50,000 -4.76% 157
London +275 343 £60,000 +11.06% 97
South East +65 145 £40,250 -19.50% 99
North of England +92 130 £40,000 -11.11% 62
Midlands +110 122 £40,000 -11.11% 59
South West +79 99 £46,500 +32.86% 48
West Midlands +100 90 £45,000 +6.51% 46
North West +112 62 £55,000 +57.14% 30
Scotland +47 56 £40,341 +0.47% 28
Yorkshire +29 53 £32,500 -27.78% 26
East of England +56 46 £39,435 -12.37% 51
East Midlands +59 31 £34,750 -30.50% 13
North East +50 19 £39,005 +4.01% 6
Northern Ireland +36 5 £47,500 +55.74% 3
Wales +12 4 £47,500 +3.83% 2

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
1 122 (12.66%) MS Exchange
2 30 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.14%) IIS
5 8 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.41%) WordPress
7 2 (0.21%) Apache
7 2 (0.21%) Confluence
7 2 (0.21%) MODX
7 2 (0.21%) Site Server
8 1 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2000
8 1 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.10%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.41%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.21%) ScheduALL
2 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 319 (33.09%) Microsoft 365
2 281 (29.15%) Azure
3 83 (8.61%) Entra ID
4 75 (7.78%) AWS
5 22 (2.28%) SaaS
6 20 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (1.35%) IaaS
8 11 (1.14%) Google Workspace
8 11 (1.14%) PaaS
9 9 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (0.83%) WhatsApp
11 7 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.62%) Rubrik
13 5 (0.52%) Mimecast
13 5 (0.52%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.52%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.31%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 439 (45.54%) WAN
2 371 (38.49%) Firewall
3 306 (31.74%) LAN
4 241 (25.00%) VPN
5 212 (21.99%) SD-WAN
6 175 (18.15%) DNS
7 162 (16.80%) DHCP
8 128 (13.28%) BGP
8 128 (13.28%) Cisco IOS
9 118 (12.24%) VLAN
10 116 (12.03%) OSPF
11 102 (10.58%) WebEx
12 96 (9.96%) TCP/IP
12 96 (9.96%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (9.54%) Internet
14 90 (9.34%) MPLS
15 84 (8.71%) Network Security
16 83 (8.61%) Cisco ASA
17 61 (6.33%) SAN
18 60 (6.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (3.11%) Big Data
2 30 (3.11%) Data Lake
2 30 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.31%) MySQL
4 3 (0.31%) Power BI
5 2 (0.21%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.10%) DB2
6 1 (0.10%) OLAP
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 16 (1.66%) JIRA
2 7 (0.73%) GDB
2 7 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.41%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.41%) Git
3 4 (0.41%) Metasploit
3 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.21%) Subversion
5 1 (0.10%) GitLab
5 1 (0.10%) Mercurial
General
1 366 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 135 (14.00%) Telecoms
3 87 (9.02%) Finance
4 80 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 35 (3.63%) Electronics
9 34 (3.53%) Law
10 31 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.49%) Marketing
13 21 (2.18%) Legal
14 13 (1.35%) Banking
15 12 (1.24%) Local Government
16 10 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Retail
18 8 (0.83%) Automotive
19 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
20 5 (0.52%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 219 (22.72%) Network Engineer
2 165 (17.12%) IT Support
3 108 (11.20%) Support Engineer
4 105 (10.89%) Support Specialist
5 104 (10.79%) Senior
6 102 (10.58%) IT Support Specialist
7 74 (7.68%) IT Engineer
8 73 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 68 (7.05%) Analyst
10 53 (5.50%) Architect
11 49 (5.08%) Embedded Engineer
12 46 (4.77%) Senior Network Engineer
13 43 (4.46%) 3rd Line Support
14 38 (3.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 36 (3.73%) Network Support
16 35 (3.63%) IT Support Engineer
17 31 (3.22%) IT Analyst
17 31 (3.22%) Lead
17 31 (3.22%) Network Architect
18 29 (3.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.42%) 802.1X
2 10 (1.04%) HTML
3 7 (0.73%) HTML5
3 7 (0.73%) React
3 7 (0.73%) Redux
3 7 (0.73%) Yocto
4 5 (0.52%) LAMP
4 5 (0.52%) OAuth
5 2 (0.21%) CSS
5 2 (0.21%) LDAP
5 2 (0.21%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (0.21%) Velocity
6 1 (0.10%) EDI
6 1 (0.10%) Middleware
6 1 (0.10%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.10%) Wayland
6 1 (0.10%) Web Services
6 1 (0.10%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 122 (12.66%) Data Centre
2 102 (10.58%) Wiki
3 94 (9.75%) Video Conferencing
4 38 (3.94%) Driving Licence
5 33 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
6 28 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.07%) FPGA
9 19 (1.97%) Clustering
10 16 (1.66%) CCTV
10 16 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.45%) Replication
11 14 (1.45%) VHDL
12 13 (1.35%) IoT
13 10 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
14 8 (0.83%) Device Driver
14 8 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 8 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 412 (42.74%) Windows
2 177 (18.36%) Windows 10
3 159 (16.49%) Windows Server
4 119 (12.34%) Android
5 86 (8.92%) Linux
6 73 (7.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 73 (7.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 59 (6.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.97%) Mac OS
9 11 (1.14%) Unix
10 9 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
10 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.73%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.41%) VMS
14 3 (0.31%) CentOS
14 3 (0.31%) SUSE
14 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
2 161 (16.70%) ITIL
3 141 (14.63%) Computer Science
4 140 (14.52%) Customer Service
5 120 (12.45%) Business Continuity
6 107 (11.10%) Mobile Device Management
7 105 (10.89%) Contract Negotiation
8 103 (10.68%) BCP
8 103 (10.68%) Business Continuity Planning
9 95 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 91 (9.44%) Application Virtualisation
11 77 (7.99%) Network Monitoring
12 72 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
12 72 (7.47%) Load Balancing
12 72 (7.47%) Migration
13 67 (6.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 60 (6.22%) Network Design
15 59 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (6.02%) High Availability
16 58 (6.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (6.33%) C
2 58 (6.02%) PowerShell
3 54 (5.60%) Python
4 47 (4.88%) C++
5 35 (3.63%) Embedded C
6 21 (2.18%) SQL
7 17 (1.76%) Bash
8 16 (1.66%) MATLAB
9 13 (1.35%) C#
10 9 (0.93%) Java
11 6 (0.62%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.52%) PHP
13 4 (0.41%) Perl
13 4 (0.41%) VB
14 3 (0.31%) VBScript
15 2 (0.21%) AWK
15 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
15 2 (0.21%) sed
15 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.10%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 233 (24.17%) Cisco Certification
1 233 (24.17%) Degree
2 139 (14.42%) CCNP
3 132 (13.69%) CCNA
4 113 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (11.41%) Master's Degree
6 74 (7.68%) Security Cleared
7 61 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 57 (5.91%) SC Cleared
9 45 (4.67%) CCIE
10 30 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 30 (3.11%) DBS Check
11 29 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
12 25 (2.59%) MCITP
13 18 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.87%) PhD
14 16 (1.66%) MCSE
15 11 (1.14%) JNCIA
16 10 (1.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
16 10 (1.04%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.12%) SLA
2 51 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (1.87%) NIST
5 11 (1.14%) GDPR
5 11 (1.14%) NCSC
6 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.62%) PMO
7 6 (0.62%) QA
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.41%) RMADS
9 3 (0.31%) Automotive SPICE
9 3 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
9 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.10%) MISRA
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 3
System Software
1 328 (34.02%) Active Directory
2 115 (11.93%) VMware ESXi
3 111 (11.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (11.41%) XenApp
5 106 (11.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 106 (11.00%) XenDesktop
6 80 (8.30%) Hyper-V
7 69 (7.16%) Firmware
8 27 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (2.70%) vSphere
10 21 (2.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 9 (0.93%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.41%) Docker
13 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.31%) vCloud
14 3 (0.31%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.21%) KVM
16 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 125 (12.97%) SCCM
2 91 (9.44%) AirWatch
3 83 (8.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 72 (7.47%) FortiGate
5 17 (1.76%) Nessus
6 15 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
6 15 (1.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 15 (1.56%) SCOM
7 14 (1.45%) Ansible
8 9 (0.93%) CASB
8 9 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
9 7 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.73%) Icinga
10 6 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.62%) Nagios
10 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.52%) Backup Exec
11 5 (0.52%) Cacti
11 5 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 480 (49.79%) Cisco
2 377 (39.11%) Microsoft
3 157 (16.29%) VMware
4 141 (14.63%) Citrix
5 120 (12.45%) Aruba
6 118 (12.24%) Meraki
7 92 (9.54%) Juniper
8 91 (9.44%) Fortinet
9 86 (8.92%) CheckPoint
10 73 (7.57%) SolarWinds
11 71 (7.37%) Palo Alto
12 70 (7.26%) HP
13 69 (7.16%) Veeam
14 56 (5.81%) F5
15 32 (3.32%) Apple
16 30 (3.11%) Databricks
17 29 (3.01%) Zerto
18 28 (2.90%) Dell
19 27 (2.80%) Mitel
20 24 (2.49%) Nimble Storage