Structured Cabling Job Trends in the West Midlands

Structured Cabling
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 193 175
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 +108
Permanent jobs citing Structured Cabling 7 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.74% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £37,500 - £36,500
90th Percentile - - £36,700
England median annual salary £34,500 £33,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year +3.76% -11.33% -3.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Structured Cabling 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,215 679 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.07% 16.42% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 231 301 674
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,600 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £71,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Structured Cabling
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Structured Cabling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Structured Cabling job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Structured Cabling
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Structured Cabling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Structured Cabling

Structured Cabling
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Structured Cabling within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Worcestershire - 5 - -
Birmingham - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £35,000 -
Structured Cabling
England

Structured Cabling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) ISDN
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) PSTN
2 1 (14.29%) RTP
2 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cabling Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Audio Visual Installation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior VoIP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Driving Licence
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Aruba
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds