Wireless Jobs in the West Midlands

Wireless
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 149 66
Rank change year-on-year -27 -83 +80
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 20 101 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 1.40% 4.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.97% 10.10% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 82 44
10th Percentile £42,125 £26,500 £20,750
25th Percentile £43,688 £32,563 £29,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% +57.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £40,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £49,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

Wireless
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Wireless in the West Midlands

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireless in the West Midlands

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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 Wireless within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham +18 15 £56,250 -2.17% 11
Warwickshire -33 4 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Solihull +7 1 - -
Wireless
England

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (45.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Skype
1 9 (45.00%) Unified Communications
2 4 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (15.00%) Bluetooth
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 3 (15.00%) GSM
3 3 (15.00%) J1939
3 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (10.00%) BGP
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (10.00%) Network Security
4 2 (10.00%) VLAN
4 2 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) DHCP
5 1 (5.00%) DNS
5 1 (5.00%) MPLS
5 1 (5.00%) OSPF
5 1 (5.00%) TACACS
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
General
1 9 (45.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (15.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Collaboration Specialist
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Telematics Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Digital Signage
1 9 (45.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) CCTV
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) User Experience
2 3 (15.00%) Agile
2 3 (15.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (15.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (15.00%) Scrum
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (15.00%) Telematics
3 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (10.00%) Coaching
3 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C
2 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Automotive SPICE
1 3 (15.00%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Firmware
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Mitel
2 9 (45.00%) Polycom
2 9 (45.00%) ShoreTel
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) HP
4 3 (15.00%) Meraki
4 3 (15.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) Acronis
5 2 (10.00%) Aruba
5 2 (10.00%) Okta
6 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto