Wireless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 193 54 146
Rank change year-on-year -139 +92 +42
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,038 3,268 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.45% 5.53% 2.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.64% 30.12% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 847 516 683
10th Percentile £23,800 £23,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £31,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -8.51%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,000 £58,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £64,375 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Wireless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireless in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Wireless in the UK excluding London

Wireless
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the UK excluding London 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
South East -69 327 £37,500 +7.14% 85
North of England -136 217 £40,000 -11.11% 62
East of England -72 142 £60,000 +37.14% 63
Midlands -130 140 £45,000 +24.14% 39
North West -120 131 £40,000 -11.11% 27
South West -126 119 £37,500 +17.19% 46
Scotland -104 100 £52,500 +16.67% 30
West Midlands -96 97 £53,750 +53.57% 17
Yorkshire -77 87 £35,000 -22.22% 30
East Midlands -123 37 £38,000 -10.59% 22
Wales -33 30 £35,000 -12.50% 5
North East -84 12 £38,250 +2.00% 7
Northern Ireland +1 3 £37,500 -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 116 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (5.01%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.35%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.67%) IIS
5 6 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2000
5 6 (0.58%) SAS
6 5 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.39%) WordPress
8 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.096%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 109 (10.50%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.48%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.48%) Simulink
6 3 (0.29%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.19%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 268 (25.82%) Microsoft 365
2 210 (20.23%) Azure
3 61 (5.88%) AWS
4 60 (5.78%) Entra ID
5 45 (4.34%) Google Workspace
6 23 (2.22%) OneDrive
7 16 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (1.35%) IaaS
9 13 (1.25%) GCP
10 7 (0.67%) AWS IoT
11 6 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.58%) Dropbox
11 6 (0.58%) PaaS
11 6 (0.58%) Twilio
12 5 (0.48%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.48%) GitHub
12 5 (0.48%) Serverless
13 4 (0.39%) Google Sheets
13 4 (0.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 303 (29.19%) Firewall
2 250 (24.08%) LAN
3 225 (21.68%) WAN
4 212 (20.42%) Wi-Fi
5 134 (12.91%) TCP/IP
6 130 (12.52%) DNS
7 110 (10.60%) VPN
8 104 (10.02%) DHCP
9 77 (7.42%) Internet
10 74 (7.13%) SD-WAN
11 73 (7.03%) OSPF
12 71 (6.84%) MPLS
13 70 (6.74%) Bluetooth
14 67 (6.45%) BGP
15 65 (6.26%) Network Security
16 60 (5.78%) Ethernet
17 56 (5.39%) LTE
17 56 (5.39%) VoIP
18 53 (5.11%) VLAN
19 46 (4.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.67%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.39%) Power BI
5 3 (0.29%) MySQL
6 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.19%) Big Data
6 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.19%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.096%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.096%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (2.70%) Git
2 23 (2.22%) JIRA
3 22 (2.12%) LabVIEW
4 9 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.87%) Subversion
5 6 (0.58%) GDB
6 5 (0.48%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.48%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.48%) Xcode
7 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.19%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.096%) TeamCity
General
1 309 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 112 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 106 (10.21%) Electronics
4 90 (8.67%) Finance
4 90 (8.67%) Telecoms
5 86 (8.29%) Manufacturing
6 58 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (3.76%) Retail
8 36 (3.47%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.08%) Legal
10 29 (2.79%) Marketing
11 25 (2.41%) Games
12 24 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (2.22%) Automotive
14 19 (1.83%) Mandarin Language
15 15 (1.45%) Law
16 14 (1.35%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.35%) Local Government
16 14 (1.35%) Military
17 12 (1.16%) Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (16.67%) Senior
2 158 (15.22%) Network Engineer
3 146 (14.07%) IT Support
4 134 (12.91%) Embedded Engineer
5 125 (12.04%) Support Engineer
6 93 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 88 (8.48%) IT Engineer
8 76 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
9 72 (6.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 67 (6.45%) IT Technician
10 67 (6.45%) Support Technician
11 66 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 56 (5.39%) Analyst
13 52 (5.01%) Senior Network Engineer
14 47 (4.53%) IT Support Technician
15 43 (4.14%) Hardware Engineer
15 43 (4.14%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 42 (4.05%) Junior
17 41 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 36 (3.47%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.64%) Yocto
2 15 (1.45%) 802.1X
3 12 (1.16%) REST
4 8 (0.77%) React
5 6 (0.58%) HTML
5 6 (0.58%) HTML5
5 6 (0.58%) Redux
6 5 (0.48%) Apache Cordova
6 5 (0.48%) Core Animation
6 5 (0.48%) Core Data
6 5 (0.48%) RESTful
7 4 (0.39%) Flash
7 4 (0.39%) LAMP
8 3 (0.29%) .NET
8 3 (0.29%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.29%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.29%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.29%) WPF
9 2 (0.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.34%) Driving Licence
2 80 (7.71%) Data Centre
3 69 (6.65%) IoT
4 54 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.95%) Embedded Systems
5 41 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 37 (3.56%) CCTV
7 22 (2.12%) Acoustics
7 22 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.12%) Satnav
8 21 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.02%) Device Driver
9 20 (1.93%) Replication
10 17 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.35%) FPGA
12 12 (1.16%) ARM Cortex
13 10 (0.96%) Analogue Electronics
13 10 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 313 (30.15%) Windows
2 142 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 133 (12.81%) Linux
4 74 (7.13%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.91%) Apple iOS
6 46 (4.43%) Embedded Linux
7 44 (4.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 41 (3.95%) Mac OS
9 39 (3.76%) Android
10 34 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (1.93%) Mac OS X
13 18 (1.73%) VyOS
14 10 (0.96%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.77%) Windows 8
16 7 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
16 7 (0.67%) Ubuntu
17 5 (0.48%) CentOS
17 5 (0.48%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.48%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (14.84%) Software Engineering
3 132 (12.72%) Customer Service
4 114 (10.98%) Agile
5 98 (9.44%) ITIL
6 85 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 79 (7.61%) Computer Science
8 70 (6.74%) Mathematics
9 53 (5.11%) Project Delivery
10 50 (4.82%) Coaching
11 48 (4.62%) Mentoring
12 46 (4.43%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (4.34%) Project Management
14 43 (4.14%) Service Delivery
15 41 (3.95%) Physics
16 40 (3.85%) Kalman Filter
16 40 (3.85%) Network Management
16 40 (3.85%) Test Automation
17 39 (3.76%) Service Management
18 38 (3.66%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (14.64%) C
2 93 (8.96%) Python
3 85 (8.19%) Embedded C
4 64 (6.17%) PowerShell
5 40 (3.85%) C++
6 29 (2.79%) SQL
7 22 (2.12%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.73%) C#
9 12 (1.16%) Java
10 11 (1.06%) Assembly Language
10 11 (1.06%) Bash
11 9 (0.87%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.58%) Swift
13 5 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.48%) VB
14 3 (0.29%) Perl
15 2 (0.19%) PHP
15 2 (0.19%) R
15 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.096%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 208 (20.04%) Degree
2 137 (13.20%) Cisco Certification
3 108 (10.40%) CCNA
4 85 (8.19%) Security Cleared
5 71 (6.84%) SC Cleared
6 60 (5.78%) CCNP
7 41 (3.95%) DBS Check
8 30 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (2.70%) CCIE
10 25 (2.41%) JNCIA
11 23 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
13 16 (1.54%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.54%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (1.35%) MCP
15 13 (1.25%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.87%) MCSA
17 8 (0.77%) CCSA
17 8 (0.77%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.95%) SLA
2 34 (3.28%) GDPR
3 12 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.06%) QA
5 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.77%) IEC 62304
6 8 (0.77%) ISO 13485
6 8 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 8 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.67%) JTAG
8 6 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.58%) MISRA
9 4 (0.39%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.39%) NIST
10 3 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
10 3 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
10 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.19%) PMO
12 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 227 (21.87%) Active Directory
2 121 (11.66%) Firmware
3 91 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 88 (8.48%) Hyper-V
5 48 (4.62%) Embedded Firmware
6 17 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.64%) vSphere
7 14 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.67%) XenApp
9 6 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.48%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.48%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.29%) Docker
12 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.096%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.096%) NFS
13 1 (0.096%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 73 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (4.14%) SCCM
3 24 (2.31%) Ansible
4 14 (1.35%) SmoothWall
5 13 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 13 (1.25%) ServiceCenter
6 9 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 8 (0.77%) Cisco Prime
7 8 (0.77%) Terraform
7 8 (0.77%) WSUS
8 6 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.58%) PaperCut
8 6 (0.58%) SCOM
9 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.48%) Nmap
9 5 (0.48%) Opsview
10 4 (0.39%) Autotask
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 317 (30.54%) Microsoft
2 240 (23.12%) Cisco
3 131 (12.62%) VMware
4 84 (8.09%) Fortinet
5 78 (7.51%) Aruba
6 73 (7.03%) Meraki
7 63 (6.07%) Apple
8 62 (5.97%) Google
9 59 (5.68%) Palo Alto
10 58 (5.59%) Juniper
11 46 (4.43%) Ruckus Wireless
12 38 (3.66%) HP
12 38 (3.66%) Veeam
13 34 (3.28%) Citrix
14 29 (2.79%) CheckPoint
15 27 (2.60%) Nokia
16 22 (2.12%) Draytek
17 20 (1.93%) Sophos
18 18 (1.73%) EMC
18 18 (1.73%) Vyatta