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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 295 214
Rank change year-on-year -11 -81 +47
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 121 141 508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.90% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.30% 7.36% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 88 77 420
10th Percentile £30,575 £29,800 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -4.76% +7.58%
75th Percentile £69,063 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £91,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £47,166 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.81% -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 2,284 1,916 4,996
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.11% 12.17% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,161 3,197
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -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 28 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 13 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Lightworks
1 2 (1.65%) Simulink
2 1 (0.83%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.36%) Azure
2 23 (19.01%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (14.88%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.79%) AWS
5 3 (2.48%) GCP
5 3 (2.48%) OCI
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.65%) Datadog
6 2 (1.65%) IaaS
6 2 (1.65%) PaaS
6 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (43.80%) Firewall
2 40 (33.06%) LAN
3 32 (26.45%) WAN
4 31 (25.62%) Network Security
5 25 (20.66%) SD-WAN
6 22 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
7 19 (15.70%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (14.88%) Bluetooth
8 18 (14.88%) Modbus
9 16 (13.22%) VLAN
10 14 (11.57%) VPN
11 13 (10.74%) WLAN
12 12 (9.92%) BGP
12 12 (9.92%) OSPF
13 11 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
13 11 (9.09%) DHCP
13 11 (9.09%) DNS
14 9 (7.44%) RS-232
14 9 (7.44%) RS-485
14 9 (7.44%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) Eclipse
2 4 (3.31%) Subversion
3 2 (1.65%) PetaLinux
3 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.83%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Metasploit
General
1 46 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.22%) Finance
3 14 (11.57%) Telecoms
4 13 (10.74%) Electronics
5 11 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 9 (7.44%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.96%) Marketing
9 3 (2.48%) Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Law
9 3 (2.48%) Legal
10 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.65%) Military
11 1 (0.83%) French Language
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (31.40%) Network Engineer
1 38 (31.40%) Senior
2 20 (16.53%) Embedded Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Senior Network Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) IT Support
5 13 (10.74%) Support Engineer
6 12 (9.92%) IT Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Consultant
8 9 (7.44%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Senior IT Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Cisco Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Network Consultant
10 6 (4.96%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.31%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.31%) Yocto
2 1 (0.83%) NumPy
2 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.83%) SciPy
2 1 (0.83%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (7.44%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (7.44%) Raspberry Pi
3 8 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.61%) Security Posture
4 7 (5.79%) IoT
5 5 (4.13%) FPGA
6 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.48%) Clustering
8 2 (1.65%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.65%) PCIe
8 2 (1.65%) Photography
8 2 (1.65%) Replication
8 2 (1.65%) SCADA
8 2 (1.65%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.65%) Verilog
8 2 (1.65%) VHDL
8 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.88%) Windows
2 12 (9.92%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.09%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (5.79%) Linux
5 4 (3.31%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.83%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.01%) Software Engineering
3 20 (16.53%) Project Delivery
4 13 (10.74%) Customer Service
5 12 (9.92%) Collaborative Culture
6 10 (8.26%) High Availability
6 10 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.44%) Presales
7 9 (7.44%) TDD
7 9 (7.44%) Unit Testing
8 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (5.79%) ITIL
9 7 (5.79%) Migration
9 7 (5.79%) Network Design
9 7 (5.79%) Project Management
10 6 (4.96%) CRM
10 6 (4.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (4.96%) Logistics
10 6 (4.96%) Telesales
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.53%) C
2 16 (13.22%) Python
3 14 (11.57%) C++
4 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
5 9 (7.44%) Embedded C
6 2 (1.65%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (19.83%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (16.53%) CCNP
3 14 (11.57%) DBS Check
4 12 (9.92%) Azure Certification
5 10 (8.26%) CCIE
5 10 (8.26%) CCNA
5 10 (8.26%) Degree
6 5 (4.13%) CCSA
6 5 (4.13%) CCSE
7 4 (3.31%) JNCIP
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.48%) CCIE Security
8 3 (2.48%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.65%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.83%) CWNA
10 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.13%) GDPR
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.48%) SLA
4 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.65%) ECSS
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (19.83%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.88%) Firmware
3 11 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (6.61%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.31%) vSphere
7 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (14.88%) FortiGate
2 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.31%) Terraform
4 3 (2.48%) Ansible
4 3 (2.48%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.65%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.65%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.83%) Nmap
6 1 (0.83%) SCCM
6 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (39.67%) Cisco
2 34 (28.10%) Microsoft
3 22 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 18 (14.88%) Meraki
5 16 (13.22%) Fortinet
6 9 (7.44%) Aruba
6 9 (7.44%) Ubiquiti
7 7 (5.79%) CheckPoint
7 7 (5.79%) Juniper
8 5 (4.13%) Veeam
8 5 (4.13%) VMware
9 4 (3.31%) Atmel
10 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.48%) Sophos
11 2 (1.65%) EMC
11 2 (1.65%) F5
11 2 (1.65%) HP
11 2 (1.65%) SonicWALL
11 2 (1.65%) WatchGuard
11 2 (1.65%) Xilinx