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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 429 427
Rank change year-on-year +69 -2 +199
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 13 41 65
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.086% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.94% 1.68% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13 24 59
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,475 £35,900
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,988 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +44.33% +2.11%
75th Percentile £88,750 £91,250 £71,250
90th Percentile - £98,550 £93,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,250 £48,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.98% -1.02%

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 1,380 2,444 2,979
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.08% 12.29% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 964 1,410 2,526
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,375 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.30% +6.00% -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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WLAN over the 6 months to 25 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
2 11 (84.62%) WAN
3 9 (69.23%) VPN
4 8 (61.54%) Wireless
5 6 (46.15%) SD-WAN
6 5 (38.46%) BGP
6 5 (38.46%) BIG-IP
6 5 (38.46%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (38.46%) EIGRP
6 5 (38.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 5 (38.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (38.46%) OSPF
6 5 (38.46%) Wireshark
7 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (30.77%) NX-OS
8 2 (15.38%) DNS
8 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (7.69%) DHCP
9 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Network Operations Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Technician
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Process Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 5 (38.46%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
3 5 (38.46%) Network Optimisation
4 4 (30.77%) Business Continuity
4 4 (30.77%) Change Management
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Runbook
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
7 1 (7.69%) Change Control
7 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (7.69%) Service Management
7 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.69%) MCSE
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Firmware
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) Palo Alto
3 6 (46.15%) Aruba
3 6 (46.15%) Fortinet
4 5 (38.46%) F5
4 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
5 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 1 (7.69%) arcserve
7 1 (7.69%) Forcepoint
7 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
7 1 (7.69%) Meraki
7 1 (7.69%) Sophos