Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 387 482
Rank change year-on-year +154 +95 -88
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 1,229 879 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 0.85% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.02% 5.50% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 650 858
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £63,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,100 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% -14.44% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wi-Fi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wi-Fi.

Salary trend for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wi-Fi over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Wi-Fi in the UK

Wi-Fi
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +156 1,142 £42,500 +6.25% 215
UK excluding London +88 910 £40,000 +3.90% 167
Work from Home +203 428 £47,500 +5.56% 73
London +170 289 £52,250 +4.50% 61
North of England +77 248 £40,000 - 43
South East +51 193 £40,000 +3.90% 47
Midlands +91 177 £39,750 +15.22% 26
North West +18 136 £40,000 - 25
South West +15 121 £40,000 - 19
East of England +50 119 £32,500 -5.80% 21
West Midlands +63 107 £33,500 -2.90% 13
Yorkshire +108 91 £40,250 +16.67% 15
East Midlands +36 65 £40,000 +14.29% 13
Scotland -76 40 £35,000 -32.04% 8
North East 0 25 £42,500 +10.39% 4
Wales +15 20 £33,750 -2.70% 6
Northern Ireland +31 5 - - 3

Wi-Fi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 151 (12.29%) SharePoint
2 123 (10.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.38%) Confluence
4 9 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2000
6 5 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.41%) IIS
7 4 (0.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 152 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.33%) Trello
6 1 (0.081%) 1Password
6 1 (0.081%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.33%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
3 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.081%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 494 (40.20%) Microsoft 365
2 392 (31.90%) Azure
3 159 (12.94%) Entra ID
4 90 (7.32%) AWS
5 75 (6.10%) OneDrive
6 54 (4.39%) SaaS
7 49 (3.99%) IaaS
8 47 (3.82%) PaaS
9 21 (1.71%) GCP
10 20 (1.63%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.55%) Google Workspace
12 16 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (1.14%) WhatsApp
14 12 (0.98%) Mimecast
15 9 (0.73%) Nutanix
16 8 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (0.65%) Slack
17 7 (0.57%) Datadog
18 6 (0.49%) GitHub
18 6 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 441 (35.88%) LAN
2 413 (33.60%) WAN
3 409 (33.28%) Firewall
4 278 (22.62%) Wireless
5 235 (19.12%) DHCP
6 227 (18.47%) DNS
7 209 (17.01%) VPN
8 143 (11.64%) VLAN
9 141 (11.47%) TCP/IP
10 118 (9.60%) SD-WAN
11 109 (8.87%) MPLS
11 109 (8.87%) Network Security
12 104 (8.46%) Internet
13 92 (7.49%) Bluetooth
14 79 (6.43%) Ethernet
15 73 (5.94%) VoIP
16 61 (4.96%) BGP
17 50 (4.07%) OSPF
18 45 (3.66%) LTE
19 41 (3.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.58%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.65%) MySQL
4 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.49%) Tableau
5 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (0.24%) Power BI
7 2 (0.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (2.93%) JIRA
2 22 (1.79%) LabVIEW
3 19 (1.55%) Git
4 5 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.33%) Subversion
5 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.24%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.081%) Eclipse
General
1 338 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 115 (9.36%) Finance
3 99 (8.06%) Telecoms
4 90 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.02%) Retail
6 65 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (5.21%) Manufacturing
8 60 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (4.48%) Electronics
10 48 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 34 (2.77%) Law
12 27 (2.20%) Marketing
13 26 (2.12%) Legal
14 23 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.63%) Local Government
16 12 (0.98%) Automotive
16 12 (0.98%) Back Office
16 12 (0.98%) Games
16 12 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 197 (16.03%) Network Engineer
2 184 (14.97%) IT Engineer
3 180 (14.65%) IT Support
4 178 (14.48%) Support Engineer
5 160 (13.02%) Senior
6 108 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 107 (8.71%) IT Support Engineer
8 91 (7.40%) Analyst
9 71 (5.78%) Embedded Engineer
10 69 (5.61%) Project Manager
11 66 (5.37%) IT Technician
12 64 (5.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 64 (5.21%) IT Manager
13 63 (5.13%) Software Engineer
14 61 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support
15 60 (4.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 58 (4.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 47 (3.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 44 (3.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
19 40 (3.25%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.22%) REST
1 15 (1.22%) Yocto
2 10 (0.81%) 802.1X
3 8 (0.65%) Laravel
4 7 (0.57%) Vue
4 7 (0.57%) X-Windows
5 6 (0.49%) CSS
5 6 (0.49%) HTML
5 6 (0.49%) NETCONF
5 6 (0.49%) React Native
6 5 (0.41%) .NET
7 4 (0.33%) Flask
8 3 (0.24%) Android Jetpack
8 3 (0.24%) COM
8 3 (0.24%) Node.js
8 3 (0.24%) OpenGL
8 3 (0.24%) Qt
8 3 (0.24%) SignalR
8 3 (0.24%) WinForms
9 2 (0.16%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 161 (13.10%) Driving Licence
2 137 (11.15%) Data Centre
3 61 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.23%) CCTV
5 49 (3.99%) IoT
6 44 (3.58%) EPoS
6 44 (3.58%) Management Information System
7 42 (3.42%) Public Cloud
8 40 (3.25%) Video Conferencing
9 37 (3.01%) Onboarding
10 25 (2.03%) PKI
11 22 (1.79%) Acoustics
11 22 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
11 22 (1.79%) Satnav
12 15 (1.22%) Device Driver
12 15 (1.22%) Social Media
13 12 (0.98%) iPad
13 12 (0.98%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.98%) PropTech
14 11 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 495 (40.28%) Windows
2 246 (20.02%) Windows Server
3 158 (12.86%) Windows 10
4 102 (8.30%) Linux
5 57 (4.64%) Mac OS
6 56 (4.56%) Android
7 52 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 50 (4.07%) Apple iOS
8 50 (4.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 44 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.93%) Embedded Linux
11 22 (1.79%) Windows 7
12 19 (1.55%) VyOS
13 11 (0.90%) Windows 8
14 10 (0.81%) Mac OS X
14 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (0.73%) Ubuntu
16 6 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
16 6 (0.49%) ThreadX
17 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (16.11%) Customer Service
2 194 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 167 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
4 150 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 129 (10.50%) Agile
6 126 (10.25%) ITIL
7 98 (7.97%) Project Management
8 84 (6.83%) Software Engineering
9 83 (6.75%) Service Delivery
10 74 (6.02%) Asset Management
11 65 (5.29%) Project Delivery
12 63 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
13 61 (4.96%) Mentoring
13 61 (4.96%) PRINCE2
14 55 (4.48%) Migration
15 51 (4.15%) Computer Science
16 50 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (3.82%) Coaching
17 47 (3.82%) Presales
18 46 (3.74%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 77 (6.27%) C
2 70 (5.70%) PowerShell
3 59 (4.80%) SQL
4 48 (3.91%) Python
5 44 (3.58%) Embedded C
6 24 (1.95%) C++
7 19 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.14%) C#
9 8 (0.65%) Bash
9 8 (0.65%) PHP
10 4 (0.33%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.24%) VB
12 1 (0.081%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.081%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (15.79%) Degree
2 139 (11.31%) Cisco Certification
3 89 (7.24%) CCNA
4 72 (5.86%) Security Cleared
5 65 (5.29%) CCNP
6 43 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.36%) CCIE
9 29 (2.36%) SC Cleared
10 28 (2.28%) A+ Certification
10 28 (2.28%) JNCIA
11 27 (2.20%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
13 22 (1.79%) CISSP
14 16 (1.30%) APMP
15 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.06%) MCSE
16 10 (0.81%) CCSA
16 10 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.16%) SLA
2 54 (4.39%) PCI DSS
3 46 (3.74%) GDPR
4 30 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.65%) IEC 62304
7 8 (0.65%) ISO 13485
7 8 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 8 (0.65%) NCSC
7 8 (0.65%) QA
8 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.41%) MISRA
9 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.33%) Automotive SPICE
9 4 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
9 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.33%) NIST
10 3 (0.24%) JTAG
11 2 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 359 (29.21%) Active Directory
2 137 (11.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (8.22%) Hyper-V
4 38 (3.09%) KVM
5 33 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (2.20%) Firmware
7 17 (1.38%) vSphere
8 13 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.41%) Docker
10 5 (0.41%) pfSense
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.081%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.081%) NFS
Systems Management
1 116 (9.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (3.66%) WSUS
3 42 (3.42%) SCCM
4 25 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
5 23 (1.87%) FortiGate
6 16 (1.30%) Autotask
7 12 (0.98%) PaperCut
8 11 (0.90%) SmoothWall
9 10 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
9 10 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.57%) Ansible
11 6 (0.49%) Backup Exec
11 6 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
11 6 (0.49%) Terraform
12 5 (0.41%) Nagios
12 5 (0.41%) OfficeScan
13 4 (0.33%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 479 (38.97%) Microsoft
2 330 (26.85%) Cisco
3 195 (15.87%) VMware
4 128 (10.41%) Meraki
5 95 (7.73%) Fortinet
6 83 (6.75%) Aruba
7 73 (5.94%) Apple
8 70 (5.70%) Veeam
9 65 (5.29%) Dell
10 60 (4.88%) HP
10 60 (4.88%) Juniper
11 55 (4.48%) Ruckus Wireless
12 50 (4.07%) Palo Alto
13 48 (3.91%) Citrix
14 39 (3.17%) Google
15 34 (2.77%) SolarWinds
16 32 (2.60%) Nokia
17 30 (2.44%) CheckPoint
18 27 (2.20%) Draytek
19 26 (2.12%) Ubiquiti