Hybrid/Remote WLAN Job Trends

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring WLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 424 434
Rank change year-on-year +37 +10 +208
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 16 42 62
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% 1.76% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 55
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,607 £34,200
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +55.56% +0.37%
75th Percentile £88,438 £91,250 £78,348
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £94,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £63,264 £48,875
% change year-on-year -17.01% +29.44% -2.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,388 3,038
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.74% 12.02% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 996 1,377 2,537
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -4.76%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

WLAN 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 WLAN.

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

WLAN
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WLAN over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

WLAN 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
2 15 (93.75%) LAN
3 14 (87.50%) WAN
4 11 (68.75%) VPN
5 8 (50.00%) SD-WAN
5 8 (50.00%) Wireless
6 7 (43.75%) BGP
6 7 (43.75%) OSPF
7 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (37.50%) NX-OS
8 5 (31.25%) BIG-IP
8 5 (31.25%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (31.25%) EIGRP
8 5 (31.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (31.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (31.25%) Wireshark
9 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (18.75%) DNS
11 2 (12.50%) IPsec
11 2 (12.50%) MPLS
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infoblox Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Kalman Filter
2 7 (43.75%) Process Improvement
3 6 (37.50%) Change Management
4 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
4 5 (31.25%) Network Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Network Optimisation
4 5 (31.25%) Runbook
5 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 2 (12.50%) Email Filtering
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 2 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCSE
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Firmware
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) Fortinet
2 7 (43.75%) Palo Alto
2 7 (43.75%) SolarWinds
3 6 (37.50%) Aruba
3 6 (37.50%) CheckPoint
4 5 (31.25%) F5
5 3 (18.75%) Infoblox
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 2 (12.50%) arcserve
6 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
6 2 (12.50%) Meraki
6 2 (12.50%) Sophos