WLAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring WLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WLAN 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 244 234 282
Rank change year-on-year -10 +48 -52
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 7 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.095% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% 1.40% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 5
10th Percentile - £24,850 £30,625
25th Percentile £49,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,250 - £74,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% -3.03% -2.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

WLAN 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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 993 930 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.41% 16.70% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 684 539 739
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £37,389
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the Thames Valley

WLAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for WLAN in the Thames Valley

WLAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the Thames Valley

WLAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Thames Valley 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
Oxfordshire -12 6 £51,000 +13.33%
Berkshire +8 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £65,000 -
WLAN
South East

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior LAN/WAN Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) EMC VNX
3 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
2 3 (42.86%) Rocky
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Change Control
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Network Management
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) LPIC
4 1 (14.29%) MCP
4 1 (14.29%) MCSE
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Meraki
1 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Aruba
3 3 (42.86%) EMC
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Snow
5 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 1 (14.29%) ProCurve