Wireless Job Trends in the West Midlands

Wireless
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 131 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 -45 +100
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 34 68 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.65% 1.57% 2.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.77% 9.62% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 26 33 71
10th Percentile £26,750 £43,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,900 £51,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +16.13% +9.41%
75th Percentile £66,500 £67,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,125 £70,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -

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 1,228 707 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.35% 16.30% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 244 305 639
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 £58,250 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,125 £73,987 £74,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Wireless job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Wireless

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 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
Birmingham +16 9 £61,000 +12.96% 2
Shropshire -17 9 £27,500 -42.11%
Staffordshire -19 4 £75,000 +44.58% 2
West Bromwich - 4 £28,600 -
Warwickshire +15 2 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Worcestershire -14 2 £62,500 -1.57% 8
Willenhall - 2 - -
Herefordshire - 2 £63,000 -
Wireless
England

Wireless
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (38.24%) DHCP
1 13 (38.24%) DNS
2 12 (35.29%) VPN
2 12 (35.29%) WAN
3 11 (32.35%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (29.41%) SD-WAN
5 9 (26.47%) ADSL
5 9 (26.47%) Ethernet
5 9 (26.47%) Internet
5 9 (26.47%) VDSL
5 9 (26.47%) VoIP
6 7 (20.59%) Firewall
7 6 (17.65%) LAN
8 5 (14.71%) Broadband
8 5 (14.71%) PBX
8 5 (14.71%) WebEx
9 4 (11.76%) iSCSI
9 4 (11.76%) WLAN
10 3 (8.82%) Bluetooth
10 3 (8.82%) Cisco Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 12 (35.29%) Manufacturing
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Retail
2 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Law
5 2 (5.88%) Electronics
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Technical Support
2 9 (26.47%) Support Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Technical Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Designer
3 6 (17.65%) Network Designer
4 5 (14.71%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Lead Designer
5 4 (11.76%) Project Support Officer
5 4 (11.76%) Support Officer
5 4 (11.76%) Technical Support Officer
6 3 (8.82%) Design Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Network Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Presales Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Network Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.94%) 3D Printing
3 1 (2.94%) Arduino
3 1 (2.94%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.59%) Customer Experience
2 7 (20.59%) Presales
3 6 (17.65%) Customer Service
4 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (11.76%) Proactive Maintenance
6 3 (8.82%) Logistics
6 3 (8.82%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.82%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (5.88%) Agile
7 2 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (5.88%) Migration
7 2 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (5.88%) Software Engineering
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (2.94%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.88%) CCNP
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) CCNA
3 1 (2.94%) HND
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
2 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Cisco
2 9 (26.47%) Aruba
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) Fortinet
3 6 (17.65%) Meraki
4 5 (14.71%) Juniper
4 5 (14.71%) Panasonic
4 5 (14.71%) Samsung
5 4 (11.76%) HP
6 2 (5.88%) EMC
6 2 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (5.88%) VMware
7 1 (2.94%) Dell
7 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.94%) Tanium
7 1 (2.94%) Tenable
7 1 (2.94%) Zscaler