Wireless Jobs in Scotland

Wireless
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Wireless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireless over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 76 112
Rank change year-on-year -104 +36 +10
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 100 171 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.49% 3.72% 2.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.43% 22.71% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 91 37 13
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,000 £33,600
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +10.82% -18.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,000 £54,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £57,800
UK median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -11.76% +2.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

Wireless 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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 648 753 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.66% 16.39% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 389 257 397
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,542 £27,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless in Scotland.

Salary trend for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Wireless in Scotland

Wireless
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +8 38 £52,500 +16.67% 11
Aberdeen -12 23 £35,000 - 9
West Lothian -3 14 £60,000 - 2
Glasgow -143 5 £57,500 +76.92% 4
Aberdeenshire - 4 £28,500 - 5
East Ayrshire -4 3 £29,500 -
Midlothian -2 1 £35,000 -36.67% 2
Dundee -19 1 £38,000 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (11.00%) Azure
3 7 (7.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.00%) AWS
5 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.00%) Asana
6 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.00%) MailChimp
6 3 (3.00%) Route 53
6 3 (3.00%) SaaS
6 3 (3.00%) Serverless
6 3 (3.00%) Slack
6 3 (3.00%) Zapier
7 1 (1.00%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (18.00%) LAN
2 18 (18.00%) WAN
3 15 (15.00%) Ethernet
4 13 (13.00%) RS-232
5 11 (11.00%) Firewall
6 10 (10.00%) VPN
7 9 (9.00%) Bluetooth
8 5 (5.00%) DHCP
8 5 (5.00%) DNS
8 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 4 (4.00%) Internet
9 4 (4.00%) VLAN
10 3 (3.00%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (2.00%) IPsec
11 2 (2.00%) NGFW
11 2 (2.00%) OSPF
11 2 (2.00%) Spanning Tree
12 1 (1.00%) SAN
12 1 (1.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Git
1 1 (1.00%) JIRA
1 1 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 55 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (45.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (13.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (8.00%) Finance
5 6 (6.00%) Legal
6 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.00%) Automotive
7 3 (3.00%) Electronics
7 3 (3.00%) Marketing
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (66.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 28 (28.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 26 (26.00%) Senior
4 25 (25.00%) Graduate
4 25 (25.00%) Junior
4 25 (25.00%) Junior Embedded Engineer
5 21 (21.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 20 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 20 (20.00%) Software Engineer
7 19 (19.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 19 (19.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 19 (19.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) IT Manager
11 3 (3.00%) Network Analyst
11 3 (3.00%) Support Analyst
11 3 (3.00%) Support Specialist
11 3 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) Yocto
2 1 (1.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Device Driver
2 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.00%) CCTV
4 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.00%) PKI
5 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.00%) Linux
2 14 (14.00%) Embedded Linux
3 11 (11.00%) Windows
4 4 (4.00%) CentOS
4 4 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.00%) Android
7 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.00%) OpenWrt
7 1 (1.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.00%) Software Engineering
2 43 (43.00%) Computer Science
3 36 (36.00%) Mathematics
3 36 (36.00%) Physics
4 13 (13.00%) OOD
5 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (7.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (6.00%) B2B
7 6 (6.00%) ITIL
7 6 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (5.00%) Agile
9 4 (4.00%) Customer Experience
9 4 (4.00%) DevOps
9 4 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (4.00%) ITSM
9 4 (4.00%) Network Design
9 4 (4.00%) Ticket Management
10 3 (3.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (3.00%) Innovative Thinking
10 3 (3.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (65.00%) C
2 58 (58.00%) Embedded C
3 5 (5.00%) Bash
3 5 (5.00%) C++
3 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.00%) SQL
5 1 (1.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.00%) Perl
5 1 (1.00%) Python
5 1 (1.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (48.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.00%) HND
4 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.00%) CCNA
5 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.00%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.00%) MCP
5 1 (1.00%) MCSA
5 1 (1.00%) MCSE
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (55.00%) Firmware
2 28 (28.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Ansible
1 4 (4.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.00%) Autotask
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) VMware
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.00%) Cisco
4 5 (5.00%) Juniper
4 5 (5.00%) Meraki
4 5 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.00%) Apple
6 3 (3.00%) EMC
6 3 (3.00%) Facebook
6 3 (3.00%) HubSpot
7 2 (2.00%) ConnectWise
7 2 (2.00%) Google
8 1 (1.00%) Aruba
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.00%) Veeam