WLAN Jobs in the Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 287 308
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 -48
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 65 20 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.06% 1.17% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 54 6 53
10th Percentile £37,750 £22,125 £24,150
25th Percentile £41,563 £26,188 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £36,054 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.52% +14.46% -3.63%
75th Percentile £50,250 £38,301 £47,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £44,150 £53,750
England median annual salary £49,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.47% - +11.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

WLAN 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 Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,601 1,715 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.81% 20.18% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,267 715 1,086
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £43,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -3.89% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £58,938
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the Midlands.

Salary trend for WLAN in the Midlands

WLAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Midlands +45 58 £48,500 +65.81% 3
East Midlands -27 7 £47,500 +28.00% 3
WLAN
England

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 12 (18.46%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.62%) AWS
3 3 (4.62%) Google Workspace
4 2 (3.08%) Mimecast
4 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 64 (98.46%) LAN
2 54 (83.08%) WAN
3 43 (66.15%) SD-WAN
4 34 (52.31%) MPLS
5 29 (44.62%) BGP
5 29 (44.62%) OSPF
6 16 (24.62%) Firewall
7 13 (20.00%) VPN
8 10 (15.38%) TCP/IP
8 10 (15.38%) VoIP
9 9 (13.85%) SAN
9 9 (13.85%) VLAN
9 9 (13.85%) Wireless
10 7 (10.77%) EIGRP
10 7 (10.77%) HSRP
10 7 (10.77%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (10.77%) VRRP
10 7 (10.77%) Wireshark
11 6 (9.23%) Network Security
12 5 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Power BI
General
1 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Retail
3 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Automotive
4 1 (1.54%) Law
4 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (58.46%) Analyst
1 38 (58.46%) Network Analyst
2 36 (55.38%) Network Operations Analyst
2 36 (55.38%) Operations Analyst
3 13 (20.00%) Senior
4 11 (16.92%) Network Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 9 (13.85%) 3rd Line Support
6 9 (13.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Support
6 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Support Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Network Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) FMCG
2 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.62%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
1 4 (6.15%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.08%) Android
2 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.08%) Mac OS X
2 2 (3.08%) VMS
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.54%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (13.85%) Network Architecture
3 9 (13.85%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (12.31%) Change Management
4 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
4 8 (12.31%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (10.77%) Business Analysis
5 7 (10.77%) Demand Management
5 7 (10.77%) High Availability
5 7 (10.77%) Project Delivery
5 7 (10.77%) Release Management
6 6 (9.23%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (7.69%) ITIL
7 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.15%) Project Management
9 3 (4.62%) Analytics
9 3 (4.62%) Change Control
10 2 (3.08%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (63.08%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (58.46%) CCNP
3 29 (44.62%) CCIE
3 29 (44.62%) CCNA
4 27 (41.54%) CCDP
5 8 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (12.31%) Degree
6 7 (10.77%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 5 (7.69%) JNCIA
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
9 3 (4.62%) MCSE
9 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (3.08%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (3.08%) MCSA
11 1 (1.54%) CWNA
11 1 (1.54%) HNC
11 1 (1.54%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.08%) GDPR
1 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.77%) Firmware
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.62%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (35.38%) Cisco
2 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (20.00%) VMware
4 11 (16.92%) Sophos
5 9 (13.85%) Citrix
5 9 (13.85%) HP
5 9 (13.85%) Juniper
5 9 (13.85%) Veeam
6 8 (12.31%) Ekahau
7 6 (9.23%) Meraki
8 4 (6.15%) Google
8 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.62%) Apple
10 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.08%) Snow
10 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.54%) MikroTik
11 1 (1.54%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (1.54%) Zscaler