Wi-Fi Jobs with Work from Home Options

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Wi-Fi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 440 449
Rank change year-on-year +182 +9 -103
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 420 236 488
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.08% 5.16% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 353 207 382
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,100
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Wi-Fi is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,198 4,576 7,710
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.44% 11.17% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 3,412 4,994
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,612 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Wi-Fi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Wi-Fi trend for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Wi-Fi salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 57 (13.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (12.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2000
4 5 (1.19%) Confluence
5 4 (0.95%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 47 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.95%) Trello
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) 1Password
6 1 (0.24%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.48%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 170 (40.48%) Azure
2 154 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (12.14%) Entra ID
4 47 (11.19%) AWS
5 22 (5.24%) SaaS
6 18 (4.29%) IaaS
7 13 (3.10%) PaaS
8 11 (2.62%) GCP
8 11 (2.62%) WhatsApp
9 10 (2.38%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.90%) Slack
12 7 (1.67%) Nutanix
13 6 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.19%) GitHub
14 5 (1.19%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.19%) Mimecast
15 4 (0.95%) AWS IoT
15 4 (0.95%) Power Platform
16 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 185 (44.05%) Firewall
1 185 (44.05%) LAN
2 183 (43.57%) WAN
3 91 (21.67%) SD-WAN
3 91 (21.67%) VPN
4 90 (21.43%) Wireless
5 88 (20.95%) DNS
6 80 (19.05%) DHCP
7 48 (11.43%) TCP/IP
8 47 (11.19%) Network Security
9 45 (10.71%) VLAN
10 42 (10.00%) MPLS
11 38 (9.05%) VoIP
12 34 (8.10%) Internet
13 24 (5.71%) Ethernet
13 24 (5.71%) RS-232
14 23 (5.48%) Cisco ISE
15 20 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
16 16 (3.81%) Bluetooth
17 15 (3.57%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.90%) MySQL
2 7 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.43%) Tableau
4 5 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (4.29%) JIRA
2 5 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.71%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) Subversion
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 139 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.71%) Finance
3 36 (8.57%) Retail
4 26 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.19%) Manufacturing
4 26 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 22 (5.24%) Electronics
7 16 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.10%) Marketing
10 12 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.38%) Japanese Language
12 9 (2.14%) Games
13 7 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.43%) French Language
14 6 (1.43%) Portuguese Language
14 6 (1.43%) Spanish Language
14 6 (1.43%) Swedish Language
14 6 (1.43%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (17.86%) Network Engineer
2 65 (15.48%) IT Engineer
3 53 (12.62%) IT Support
4 50 (11.90%) Analyst
5 48 (11.43%) Senior
6 39 (9.29%) Support Engineer
7 38 (9.05%) Project Manager
8 37 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (7.38%) Embedded Engineer
10 28 (6.67%) IT Manager
10 28 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
11 27 (6.43%) Software Engineer
12 26 (6.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 21 (5.00%) Help Desk Analyst
13 21 (5.00%) Presales Engineer
14 20 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
15 19 (4.52%) Network Manager
15 19 (4.52%) WAN Engineer
16 17 (4.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 17 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.33%) Yocto
2 8 (1.90%) Laravel
3 7 (1.67%) Vue
4 6 (1.43%) CSS
4 6 (1.43%) HTML
4 6 (1.43%) React Native
5 4 (0.95%) Flask
6 2 (0.48%) Node.js
7 1 (0.24%) Flutter
7 1 (0.24%) JSON
7 1 (0.24%) LDAP
7 1 (0.24%) Middleware
7 1 (0.24%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.24%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.24%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.90%) Data Centre
2 40 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 36 (8.57%) Public Cloud
4 29 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.52%) IoT
6 14 (3.33%) Device Driver
7 13 (3.10%) Social Media
8 12 (2.86%) PKI
9 11 (2.62%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.19%) ARM Cortex
11 5 (1.19%) CCTV
11 5 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.19%) Smart Home
12 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.95%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.95%) Replication
12 4 (0.95%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.71%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 134 (31.90%) Windows
2 68 (16.19%) Windows Server
3 50 (11.90%) Windows 10
4 43 (10.24%) Linux
5 29 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (6.67%) Android
7 27 (6.43%) Mac OS
8 24 (5.71%) Apple iOS
9 22 (5.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (3.81%) Embedded Linux
10 16 (3.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (3.33%) Windows 7
12 11 (2.62%) Windows 8
13 7 (1.67%) Ubuntu
14 5 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
14 5 (1.19%) ThreadX
15 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.71%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (18.10%) Customer Service
2 65 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (14.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 58 (13.81%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (12.86%) ITIL
6 52 (12.38%) Agile
7 51 (12.14%) Project Management
8 39 (9.29%) Service Delivery
9 36 (8.57%) Mentoring
10 34 (8.10%) ERP
10 34 (8.10%) Project Delivery
11 33 (7.86%) Software Engineering
12 32 (7.62%) Migration
13 31 (7.38%) Presales
14 30 (7.14%) PRINCE2
15 29 (6.90%) Asset Management
16 27 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
17 24 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (5.24%) Computer Science
19 21 (5.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.62%) C
2 23 (5.48%) Embedded C
3 13 (3.10%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.90%) Bash
4 8 (1.90%) PHP
4 8 (1.90%) Python
5 7 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.43%) SQL
7 5 (1.19%) C++
8 4 (0.95%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (16.43%) Degree
2 55 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (8.57%) CCNP
4 32 (7.62%) CCNA
5 16 (3.81%) APMP
6 15 (3.57%) Security Cleared
7 14 (3.33%) CISSP
8 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.38%) CCIE
9 10 (2.38%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.90%) CCSA
10 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.43%) CCDP
11 6 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (1.43%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.19%) RIBA
13 4 (0.95%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.05%) SLA
3 15 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.19%) GDPR
5 5 (1.19%) MISRA
6 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.71%) NIST
7 2 (0.48%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 113 (26.90%) Active Directory
2 41 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (7.62%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.86%) Firmware
6 4 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.71%) Docker
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.48%) vSphere
9 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 37 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (7.86%) WSUS
3 9 (2.14%) SCCM
4 6 (1.43%) Ansible
5 5 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.19%) Terraform
6 4 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.95%) Autotask
6 4 (0.95%) PaperCut
6 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.71%) Nagios
7 3 (0.71%) OfficeScan
8 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.24%) Nmap
9 1 (0.24%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 164 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 159 (37.86%) Cisco
3 77 (18.33%) Meraki
4 55 (13.10%) VMware
5 50 (11.90%) Fortinet
6 40 (9.52%) Aruba
7 29 (6.90%) Palo Alto
8 21 (5.00%) Juniper
9 20 (4.76%) HP
9 20 (4.76%) Ruckus Wireless
10 16 (3.81%) Apple
11 15 (3.57%) Dell
12 13 (3.10%) CheckPoint
12 13 (3.10%) Ubiquiti
13 11 (2.62%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.14%) BT
14 9 (2.14%) Draytek
15 7 (1.67%) Datto
15 7 (1.67%) IBM
15 7 (1.67%) Nokia