Wireless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 50 150
Rank change year-on-year -144 +100 +53
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,105 3,217 1,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 5.82% 2.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.92% 30.36% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 870 512 687
10th Percentile £24,000 £23,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £38,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -11.63% -9.47%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,250 £59,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.62% +3.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wireless 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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,116 10,597 11,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.63% 19.18% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,154 4,554 6,521
10th Percentile £25,760 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,675 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -78 341 £37,500 +7.14% 83
North of England -152 235 £40,000 -11.11% 57
East of England -67 155 £60,000 +41.18% 53
Midlands -150 144 £44,750 +19.16% 34
North West -127 143 £42,500 -10.53% 35
South West -126 125 £37,500 +13.64% 33
Scotland -100 113 £52,500 +19.32% 23
Yorkshire -77 95 £40,000 -11.11% 18
West Midlands -109 94 £55,000 +57.14% 11
East Midlands -126 44 £39,000 -8.24% 23
Wales -29 32 £40,000 +16.44% 12
North East -94 14 £39,000 +6.12% 5
Northern Ireland -10 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 (10.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.27%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.63%) IIS
5 6 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2000
5 6 (0.54%) SAS
6 5 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.36%) WordPress
8 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 104 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.45%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.45%) Simulink
6 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 283 (25.61%) Microsoft 365
2 235 (21.27%) Azure
3 73 (6.61%) AWS
4 71 (6.43%) Entra ID
5 47 (4.25%) Google Workspace
6 24 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 21 (1.90%) GCP
8 17 (1.54%) IaaS
9 15 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (0.81%) OCI
11 7 (0.63%) AWS IoT
11 7 (0.63%) Dropbox
12 6 (0.54%) PaaS
12 6 (0.54%) Twilio
13 5 (0.45%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.45%) GitHub
13 5 (0.45%) Serverless
14 4 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.36%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 320 (28.96%) Firewall
2 283 (25.61%) LAN
3 258 (23.35%) WAN
4 222 (20.09%) Wi-Fi
5 143 (12.94%) TCP/IP
6 139 (12.58%) DNS
7 122 (11.04%) VPN
8 110 (9.95%) DHCP
9 77 (6.97%) Internet
9 77 (6.97%) SD-WAN
10 75 (6.79%) Network Security
10 75 (6.79%) OSPF
11 73 (6.61%) MPLS
12 69 (6.24%) Bluetooth
13 68 (6.15%) BGP
14 66 (5.97%) Ethernet
15 63 (5.70%) VoIP
16 60 (5.43%) LTE
16 60 (5.43%) VLAN
17 48 (4.34%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.63%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (0.27%) MySQL
4 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.18%) Big Data
5 2 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.18%) Power BI
5 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.090%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.090%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (2.71%) Git
2 23 (2.08%) JIRA
3 22 (1.99%) LabVIEW
4 10 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.81%) Subversion
6 5 (0.45%) Xcode
7 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.36%) GDB
7 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.18%) PetaLinux
10 1 (0.090%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.090%) GitLab
10 1 (0.090%) TeamCity
General
1 324 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 113 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 109 (9.86%) Electronics
4 96 (8.69%) Finance
5 94 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 94 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 68 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (3.53%) Retail
8 38 (3.44%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.99%) Legal
9 33 (2.99%) Marketing
10 26 (2.35%) Games
10 26 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.08%) Automotive
12 19 (1.72%) Mandarin Language
13 17 (1.54%) Military
14 14 (1.27%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.18%) Law
15 13 (1.18%) Local Government
16 12 (1.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (16.74%) Senior
2 172 (15.57%) Network Engineer
3 146 (13.21%) IT Support
4 136 (12.31%) Embedded Engineer
5 126 (11.40%) Support Engineer
6 97 (8.78%) Software Engineer
7 92 (8.33%) IT Engineer
8 77 (6.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 77 (6.97%) IT Support Engineer
9 73 (6.61%) IT Technician
10 68 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 68 (6.15%) Support Technician
11 59 (5.34%) Analyst
11 59 (5.34%) Senior Network Engineer
12 49 (4.43%) Lead
13 46 (4.16%) IT Support Technician
14 44 (3.98%) Hardware Engineer
15 43 (3.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 43 (3.89%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 40 (3.62%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.54%) Yocto
2 15 (1.36%) 802.1X
3 13 (1.18%) REST
4 11 (1.00%) .NET
5 6 (0.54%) React
6 5 (0.45%) Apache Cordova
6 5 (0.45%) Core Animation
6 5 (0.45%) Core Data
6 5 (0.45%) RESTful
7 4 (0.36%) Flash
7 4 (0.36%) HTML
7 4 (0.36%) HTML5
7 4 (0.36%) LAMP
7 4 (0.36%) Redux
8 3 (0.27%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.27%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.27%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.27%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.27%) WPF
9 2 (0.18%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.05%) Driving Licence
2 84 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 78 (7.06%) IoT
4 57 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 42 (3.80%) Embedded Systems
7 37 (3.35%) CCTV
8 23 (2.08%) Replication
9 22 (1.99%) Acoustics
9 22 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.99%) Satnav
10 21 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.90%) Device Driver
11 17 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.27%) FPGA
13 12 (1.09%) ARM Cortex
13 12 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.90%) Analogue Electronics
14 10 (0.90%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 326 (29.50%) Windows
2 150 (13.57%) Windows Server
3 134 (12.13%) Linux
4 80 (7.24%) Windows 10
5 55 (4.98%) Apple iOS
6 47 (4.25%) Embedded Linux
7 44 (3.98%) Mac OS
8 41 (3.71%) Android
9 39 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (1.81%) Mac OS X
13 17 (1.54%) VyOS
14 10 (0.90%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.72%) Windows 8
16 7 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
16 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
17 5 (0.45%) ThreadX
18 4 (0.36%) VMS
18 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
2 157 (14.21%) Software Engineering
3 146 (13.21%) Customer Service
4 113 (10.23%) Agile
5 108 (9.77%) ITIL
6 88 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 80 (7.24%) Computer Science
8 72 (6.52%) Mathematics
9 57 (5.16%) Project Delivery
10 55 (4.98%) Coaching
10 55 (4.98%) Mentoring
11 54 (4.89%) Roadmaps
12 50 (4.52%) Project Management
12 50 (4.52%) Service Delivery
13 49 (4.43%) Cybersecurity
14 43 (3.89%) Change Management
15 42 (3.80%) Network Management
15 42 (3.80%) Service Management
15 42 (3.80%) Test Automation
16 40 (3.62%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 150 (13.57%) C
2 91 (8.24%) Python
3 85 (7.69%) Embedded C
4 67 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 40 (3.62%) C++
6 26 (2.35%) SQL
7 23 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.63%) C#
9 11 (1.00%) Assembly Language
10 10 (0.90%) Java
11 9 (0.81%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.63%) Bash
13 6 (0.54%) Swift
14 5 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.45%) VB
15 3 (0.27%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.27%) Perl
16 2 (0.18%) PHP
16 2 (0.18%) R
16 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (19.28%) Degree
2 143 (12.94%) Cisco Certification
3 108 (9.77%) CCNA
4 89 (8.05%) Security Cleared
5 74 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 64 (5.79%) CCNP
7 47 (4.25%) DBS Check
8 31 (2.81%) CCIE
9 30 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (2.17%) JNCIA
11 17 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.36%) MCP
13 14 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.00%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.81%) MCSA
15 9 (0.81%) MCSE
16 8 (0.72%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.34%) SLA
2 35 (3.17%) GDPR
3 15 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.00%) QA
5 8 (0.72%) IEC 62304
5 8 (0.72%) ISO 13485
5 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (0.63%) JTAG
7 6 (0.54%) MISRA
8 4 (0.36%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
10 2 (0.18%) PMO
11 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.090%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 242 (21.90%) Active Directory
2 119 (10.77%) Firmware
3 97 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (8.24%) Hyper-V
5 50 (4.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 16 (1.45%) vSphere
7 15 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.63%) Terminal Services
10 7 (0.63%) XenApp
11 5 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.36%) Docker
13 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.090%) Dovecot
15 1 (0.090%) NFS
15 1 (0.090%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 77 (6.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (4.16%) SCCM
3 24 (2.17%) Ansible
4 15 (1.36%) FortiGate
5 13 (1.18%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (1.18%) ServiceCenter
6 12 (1.09%) SmoothWall
7 9 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.72%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (0.72%) WSUS
9 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (0.63%) SCOM
10 6 (0.54%) PaperCut
10 6 (0.54%) Terraform
11 5 (0.45%) Autotask
11 5 (0.45%) Opsview
12 4 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.36%) Nmap
13 3 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 335 (30.32%) Microsoft
2 250 (22.62%) Cisco
3 136 (12.31%) VMware
4 86 (7.78%) Fortinet
5 79 (7.15%) Aruba
5 79 (7.15%) Meraki
6 66 (5.97%) Apple
6 66 (5.97%) Palo Alto
7 64 (5.79%) Google
8 56 (5.07%) Juniper
9 49 (4.43%) Ruckus Wireless
10 41 (3.71%) HP
11 39 (3.53%) Veeam
12 33 (2.99%) Citrix
13 31 (2.81%) CheckPoint
14 26 (2.35%) Nokia
15 22 (1.99%) Draytek
16 20 (1.81%) Sophos
17 19 (1.72%) Ekahau
17 19 (1.72%) EMC