Hybrid/Remote Wireless Job Trends

Wireless
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Wireless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 290 209
Rank change year-on-year -25 -81 +61
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 108 143 529
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.93% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.95% 7.47% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 77 82 437
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,594 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,417 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% - +7.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £94,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,183 1,915 5,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.03% 12.52% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,146 3,316
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,138 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Wireless and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Wireless job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Wireless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Wireless

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Wireless over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Wireless salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Acrobat
1 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.93%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.19%) Azure
2 15 (13.89%) Entra ID
2 15 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.48%) AWS
4 4 (3.70%) GCP
5 3 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.78%) OCI
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.85%) Datadog
6 2 (1.85%) IaaS
6 2 (1.85%) PaaS
6 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (41.67%) Firewall
2 36 (33.33%) LAN
3 29 (26.85%) WAN
4 28 (25.93%) Network Security
5 25 (23.15%) SD-WAN
6 23 (21.30%) Cisco ISE
7 17 (15.74%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (14.81%) Bluetooth
8 16 (14.81%) Modbus
9 15 (13.89%) WLAN
10 14 (12.96%) VLAN
11 12 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
11 12 (11.11%) VPN
12 11 (10.19%) BGP
12 11 (10.19%) OSPF
13 10 (9.26%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (9.26%) DNS
14 9 (8.33%) DHCP
15 8 (7.41%) Profibus
15 8 (7.41%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Eclipse
2 4 (3.70%) Subversion
3 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) PetaLinux
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 13 (12.04%) Telecoms
4 12 (11.11%) Electronics
5 10 (9.26%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Marketing
8 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Law
9 3 (2.78%) Legal
10 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.85%) Military
10 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) French Language
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (35.19%) Network Engineer
2 36 (33.33%) Senior
3 16 (14.81%) Senior Network Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Embedded Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.96%) Support Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) IT Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) IT Support
8 9 (8.33%) Senior IT Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Consultant
9 8 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.48%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.93%) NumPy
2 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.93%) SciPy
2 1 (0.93%) Yocto
2 1 (0.93%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.41%) Raspberry Pi
4 6 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.70%) FPGA
5 4 (3.70%) IoT
6 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.85%) NB-IoT
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) PCIe
6 2 (1.85%) Photography
6 2 (1.85%) Replication
6 2 (1.85%) SCADA
6 2 (1.85%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.11%) Windows
2 9 (8.33%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.70%) Linux
5 2 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (17.59%) Project Delivery
3 18 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 13 (12.04%) Customer Service
5 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 9 (8.33%) High Availability
7 8 (7.41%) Presales
7 8 (7.41%) TDD
7 8 (7.41%) Unit Testing
8 7 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (6.48%) Kalman Filter
8 7 (6.48%) Network Design
9 6 (5.56%) CRM
9 6 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (5.56%) ITIL
9 6 (5.56%) Network Architecture
9 6 (5.56%) Project Management
9 6 (5.56%) Telesales
9 6 (5.56%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) C
2 14 (12.96%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) C++
4 6 (5.56%) Embedded C
4 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (20.37%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (17.59%) CCNP
3 13 (12.04%) DBS Check
4 10 (9.26%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.26%) CCIE
5 8 (7.41%) Degree
6 7 (6.48%) CCNA
7 5 (4.63%) CCSA
7 5 (4.63%) CCSE
8 4 (3.70%) JNCIP
9 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.78%) CCIE Security
9 3 (2.78%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.93%) CCSP
11 1 (0.93%) CWNA
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) SLA
3 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.93%) ECSS
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.81%) Firmware
3 10 (9.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (4.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.78%) vSphere
7 1 (0.93%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (18.52%) FortiGate
2 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.70%) Ansible
3 4 (3.70%) Terraform
4 2 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.85%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.93%) SCCM
5 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (41.67%) Cisco
2 24 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 22 (20.37%) Palo Alto
4 16 (14.81%) Meraki
5 15 (13.89%) Fortinet
6 9 (8.33%) Aruba
7 8 (7.41%) Ubiquiti
8 7 (6.48%) CheckPoint
9 6 (5.56%) Juniper
10 5 (4.63%) Veeam
11 4 (3.70%) Atmel
11 4 (3.70%) VMware
12 3 (2.78%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.78%) Sophos
13 2 (1.85%) Broadcom
13 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.85%) EMC
13 2 (1.85%) F5
13 2 (1.85%) HP
13 2 (1.85%) WatchGuard