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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 45 246
Rank change year-on-year -128 +201 -64
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 56 302 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.80% 5.95% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.42% 34.59% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 38 46 53
10th Percentile £34,725 £31,500 £28,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £38,000 £35,700
Median % change year-on-year +51.32% +6.44% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,375 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £59,375 £69,375
England median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 872 873 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.46% 17.20% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 555 496 742
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,125
25th Percentile £31,125 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,375 £76,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -41 17 £54,000 +35.00% 1
Warwickshire -10 10 £57,500 +25.00% 1
Staffordshire -46 8 £48,750 +52.34% 2
Shropshire -19 7 - -
Solihull -18 4 £66,250 +85.31%
Worcestershire -20 4 £61,500 +40.57% 3
Dudley +2 2 £27,000 -12.90%
Wednesbury -5 2 - -
Coventry -5 1 £41,500 +9.21%
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 2 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (44.64%) WAN
2 22 (39.29%) Firewall
3 20 (35.71%) SD-WAN
4 19 (33.93%) LAN
5 14 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (23.21%) OSPF
7 12 (21.43%) VoIP
8 10 (17.86%) VLAN
8 10 (17.86%) VPN
9 9 (16.07%) MPLS
10 8 (14.29%) BGP
10 8 (14.29%) Bluetooth
10 8 (14.29%) WLAN
11 7 (12.50%) EIGRP
11 7 (12.50%) HSRP
11 7 (12.50%) Network Security
11 7 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (12.50%) VRRP
11 7 (12.50%) Wireshark
12 6 (10.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (26.79%) Retail
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Electronics
5 4 (7.14%) Automotive
5 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Senior
2 13 (23.21%) Network Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Analyst
4 11 (19.64%) Network Analyst
5 10 (17.86%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (17.86%) Senior Network Analyst
5 10 (17.86%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Network Operations Analyst
7 6 (10.71%) Operations Analyst
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) IP Architect
8 5 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) Yocto
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 7 (12.50%) FMCG
3 6 (10.71%) IoT
4 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
5 4 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (7.14%) Smartphone
5 4 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (5.36%) Device Driver
7 2 (3.57%) EPoS
7 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.79%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.36%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (5.36%) Linux
4 2 (3.57%) Android
5 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) ITIL
2 15 (26.79%) Project Delivery
3 11 (19.64%) Release Management
4 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.29%) Network Architecture
6 7 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 7 (12.50%) Change Management
6 7 (12.50%) Demand Management
6 7 (12.50%) High Availability
6 7 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (10.71%) Performance Management
8 5 (8.93%) Agile
8 5 (8.93%) Business Development
8 5 (8.93%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.93%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (8.93%) Roadmaps
8 5 (8.93%) Web Filtering
9 4 (7.14%) Availability Management
9 4 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (7.14%) C++
3 3 (5.36%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) C
4 1 (1.79%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (37.50%) CCNP
3 13 (23.21%) CCIE
3 13 (23.21%) CCNA
4 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
4 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
5 7 (12.50%) CCDP
5 7 (12.50%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 6 (10.71%) Degree
7 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
7 5 (8.93%) MCSE
7 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (7.14%) CCSA
8 4 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.79%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.36%) JTAG
4 2 (3.57%) SLA
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 12 (21.43%) Firmware
3 7 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (5.36%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.57%) PaperCut
2 2 (3.57%) SmoothWall
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) SCCM
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Cisco
2 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 14 (25.00%) Meraki
4 11 (19.64%) Aruba
4 11 (19.64%) Fortinet
5 10 (17.86%) Juniper
5 10 (17.86%) VMware
6 9 (16.07%) Palo Alto
7 7 (12.50%) Ekahau
7 7 (12.50%) HP
7 7 (12.50%) Veeam
8 5 (8.93%) Sophos
9 4 (7.14%) Apple
9 4 (7.14%) Avaya
10 3 (5.36%) Barracuda Networks
10 3 (5.36%) F5
10 3 (5.36%) Lauterbach
11 2 (3.57%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds