WLAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WLAN over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 191 250
Rank change year-on-year +32 +59 +15
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 38 66 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.87% 0.89% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.98% 6.63% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16 55 4
10th Percentile - £38,250 £21,675
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,750 £22,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £48,500 £29,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +65.81% -35.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 £50,250 £38,750
90th Percentile £38,500 £56,100 £45,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.82% +14.12% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

WLAN 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 476 995 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.84% 13.49% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 309 818 522
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,227 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -3.94% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for WLAN in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WLAN 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 WLAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Staffordshire +23 14 £35,000 -27.84% 1
Warwickshire +1 9 - - 8
Birmingham +21 3 £51,800 +3.60%
Worcestershire 0 2 - - 1
Coventry -6 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Smethwick - 1 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Bilston - 1 - -
WLAN
England

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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:

Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Google Workspace
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) Internet
1 23 (60.53%) Network Security
2 16 (42.11%) Firewall
3 15 (39.47%) DHCP
3 15 (39.47%) DNS
3 15 (39.47%) TCP/IP
4 14 (36.84%) BGP
4 14 (36.84%) OSPF
4 14 (36.84%) VLAN
5 2 (5.26%) LAN
5 2 (5.26%) MPLS
5 2 (5.26%) WAN
6 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.63%) Wireless
General
1 14 (36.84%) Automotive
1 14 (36.84%) Retail
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (94.74%) IT Engineer
2 22 (57.89%) IT Support
2 22 (57.89%) IT Support Engineer
2 22 (57.89%) Support Engineer
3 14 (36.84%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Analyst
4 1 (2.63%) Architect
4 1 (2.63%) Lead
4 1 (2.63%) Lead Architect
4 1 (2.63%) Network Analyst
4 1 (2.63%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 23 (60.53%) Driving Licence
2 14 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 14 (36.84%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (94.74%) Linux
1 36 (94.74%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Mac OS X
2 14 (36.84%) Ubuntu
2 14 (36.84%) Windows 10
2 14 (36.84%) Windows Server
2 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (94.74%) Computer Science
2 23 (60.53%) ITIL
2 23 (60.53%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (57.89%) Asset Management
3 22 (57.89%) IT Asset Management
3 22 (57.89%) Mentoring
3 22 (57.89%) Network Management
4 15 (39.47%) Systems Engineering
5 14 (36.84%) Business Case
5 14 (36.84%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (2.63%) Agile
6 1 (2.63%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (2.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
1 14 (36.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (94.74%) Computer Science Degree
1 36 (94.74%) Degree
1 36 (94.74%) MCSE
1 36 (94.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (60.53%) CCNA
2 23 (60.53%) CCNP
2 23 (60.53%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (57.89%) LPIC
3 22 (57.89%) MCP
4 14 (36.84%) HNC
4 14 (36.84%) HND
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) Nagios
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco
2 36 (94.74%) Microsoft
3 15 (39.47%) Fortinet
4 14 (36.84%) Apple
4 14 (36.84%) Dell
4 14 (36.84%) Google
4 14 (36.84%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (5.26%) Meraki
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds