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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 48 147
Rank change year-on-year -150 +99 +50
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 1,084 3,221 1,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 5.79% 2.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.78% 30.22% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 863 509 689
10th Percentile £24,000 £23,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £38,000 £43,150
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -11.94% -9.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £51,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,750 £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 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 10,052 10,657 11,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.72% 19.15% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 4,564 6,554
10th Percentile £25,759 £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 £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 9 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 9 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 -82 338 £37,500 +7.14% 80
North of England -148 229 £40,000 -11.11% 55
East of England -74 153 £60,000 +41.18% 45
North West -118 139 £42,000 -10.16% 34
Midlands -152 139 £45,000 +21.27% 37
South West -121 123 £37,500 +13.64% 32
Scotland -98 109 £52,500 +19.32% 20
Yorkshire -76 94 £35,000 -22.22% 16
West Midlands -114 93 £55,000 +57.14% 13
East Midlands -135 40 £39,000 -13.33% 24
Wales -29 32 £40,000 +16.44% 10
North East -93 12 £38,250 +4.08% 5
Northern Ireland -12 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
1 115 (10.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.29%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.65%) IIS
5 6 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2000
5 6 (0.55%) SAS
6 5 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.37%) WordPress
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 104 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.46%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.46%) Simulink
6 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 282 (26.01%) Microsoft 365
2 227 (20.94%) Azure
3 70 (6.46%) Entra ID
4 67 (6.18%) AWS
5 49 (4.52%) Google Workspace
6 24 (2.21%) OneDrive
7 16 (1.48%) IaaS
8 15 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (1.38%) GCP
9 7 (0.65%) AWS IoT
9 7 (0.65%) Dropbox
10 6 (0.55%) PaaS
10 6 (0.55%) Twilio
11 5 (0.46%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.46%) GitHub
11 5 (0.46%) Serverless
12 4 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.37%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 315 (29.06%) Firewall
2 272 (25.09%) LAN
3 247 (22.79%) WAN
4 221 (20.39%) Wi-Fi
5 141 (13.01%) TCP/IP
6 137 (12.64%) DNS
7 120 (11.07%) VPN
8 109 (10.06%) DHCP
9 77 (7.10%) Internet
10 76 (7.01%) SD-WAN
11 75 (6.92%) Network Security
11 75 (6.92%) OSPF
12 73 (6.73%) MPLS
13 69 (6.37%) Bluetooth
14 68 (6.27%) BGP
15 62 (5.72%) VoIP
16 60 (5.54%) Ethernet
17 59 (5.44%) LTE
17 59 (5.44%) VLAN
18 48 (4.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (0.28%) MySQL
4 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.092%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.092%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (2.68%) Git
2 23 (2.12%) JIRA
3 22 (2.03%) LabVIEW
4 9 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.83%) Subversion
5 5 (0.46%) Xcode
6 4 (0.37%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.37%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.37%) GDB
6 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.092%) TeamCity
General
1 320 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 112 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 109 (10.06%) Electronics
4 93 (8.58%) Telecoms
5 92 (8.49%) Manufacturing
6 91 (8.39%) Finance
7 66 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (3.60%) Retail
9 38 (3.51%) Public Sector
10 33 (3.04%) Legal
10 33 (3.04%) Marketing
11 26 (2.40%) Games
12 24 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (2.12%) Automotive
14 19 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
15 16 (1.48%) Military
16 14 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.20%) Law
17 13 (1.20%) Local Government
18 12 (1.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (16.88%) Senior
2 170 (15.68%) Network Engineer
3 146 (13.47%) IT Support
4 134 (12.36%) Embedded Engineer
5 126 (11.62%) Support Engineer
6 95 (8.76%) Software Engineer
7 92 (8.49%) IT Engineer
8 77 (7.10%) IT Support Engineer
9 75 (6.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 73 (6.73%) IT Technician
11 69 (6.37%) Support Technician
12 68 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (5.35%) Analyst
13 58 (5.35%) Senior Network Engineer
14 47 (4.34%) IT Support Technician
15 44 (4.06%) Hardware Engineer
16 43 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.87%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 41 (3.78%) Lead
19 40 (3.69%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.57%) Yocto
2 15 (1.38%) 802.1X
3 13 (1.20%) REST
4 7 (0.65%) .NET
5 6 (0.55%) React
6 5 (0.46%) Apache Cordova
6 5 (0.46%) Core Animation
6 5 (0.46%) Core Data
6 5 (0.46%) RESTful
7 4 (0.37%) Flash
7 4 (0.37%) HTML
7 4 (0.37%) HTML5
7 4 (0.37%) LAMP
7 4 (0.37%) Redux
8 3 (0.28%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.28%) WPF
9 2 (0.18%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.04%) Driving Licence
2 83 (7.66%) Data Centre
3 77 (7.10%) IoT
4 56 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 41 (3.78%) Embedded Systems
7 37 (3.41%) CCTV
8 22 (2.03%) Acoustics
8 22 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 22 (2.03%) Replication
8 22 (2.03%) Satnav
9 21 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.94%) Device Driver
10 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.29%) FPGA
12 12 (1.11%) ARM Cortex
12 12 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.92%) Analogue Electronics
13 10 (0.92%) Clustering
13 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 323 (29.80%) Windows
2 148 (13.65%) Windows Server
3 134 (12.36%) Linux
4 81 (7.47%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.98%) Apple iOS
6 47 (4.34%) Embedded Linux
7 42 (3.87%) Mac OS
8 40 (3.69%) Android
8 40 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (1.85%) Mac OS X
12 17 (1.57%) VyOS
13 10 (0.92%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.74%) Windows 8
15 7 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
15 7 (0.65%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.46%) ThreadX
17 4 (0.37%) VMS
17 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (14.21%) Software Engineering
3 144 (13.28%) Customer Service
4 111 (10.24%) Agile
5 105 (9.69%) ITIL
6 87 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 79 (7.29%) Computer Science
8 71 (6.55%) Mathematics
9 56 (5.17%) Project Delivery
10 49 (4.52%) Coaching
10 49 (4.52%) Cybersecurity
10 49 (4.52%) Service Delivery
11 48 (4.43%) Mentoring
11 48 (4.43%) Project Management
12 47 (4.34%) Roadmaps
13 42 (3.87%) Change Management
13 42 (3.87%) Network Management
14 41 (3.78%) Test Automation
15 40 (3.69%) Kalman Filter
15 40 (3.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (13.75%) C
2 91 (8.39%) Python
3 85 (7.84%) Embedded C
4 66 (6.09%) PowerShell
5 40 (3.69%) C++
6 26 (2.40%) SQL
7 23 (2.12%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.57%) C#
9 11 (1.01%) Assembly Language
10 10 (0.92%) Java
11 9 (0.83%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.65%) Bash
13 6 (0.55%) Swift
14 5 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.46%) VB
15 3 (0.28%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.28%) Perl
16 2 (0.18%) PHP
16 2 (0.18%) R
16 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 209 (19.28%) Degree
2 142 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
3 108 (9.96%) CCNA
4 89 (8.21%) Security Cleared
5 74 (6.83%) SC Cleared
6 63 (5.81%) CCNP
7 45 (4.15%) DBS Check
8 31 (2.86%) CCIE
9 30 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (2.21%) JNCIA
11 17 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.38%) MCP
13 14 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.83%) MCSA
15 9 (0.83%) MCSE
16 8 (0.74%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.52%) SLA
2 35 (3.23%) GDPR
3 14 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.01%) QA
5 8 (0.74%) IEC 62304
5 8 (0.74%) ISO 13485
5 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (0.65%) JTAG
7 6 (0.55%) MISRA
8 4 (0.37%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
10 2 (0.18%) PMO
11 1 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.092%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (21.96%) Active Directory
2 119 (10.98%) Firmware
3 95 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (8.39%) Hyper-V
5 49 (4.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 16 (1.48%) vSphere
7 15 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.65%) XenApp
12 6 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.46%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.28%) Docker
15 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.092%) Dovecot
16 1 (0.092%) NFS
16 1 (0.092%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 78 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (4.15%) SCCM
3 24 (2.21%) Ansible
4 15 (1.38%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.29%) SmoothWall
6 13 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
6 13 (1.20%) ServiceCenter
7 9 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (0.74%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (0.74%) WSUS
9 7 (0.65%) SCOM
10 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.55%) PaperCut
10 6 (0.55%) Terraform
11 5 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.46%) Opsview
12 4 (0.37%) Autotask
12 4 (0.37%) Nmap
13 3 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 330 (30.44%) Microsoft
2 248 (22.88%) Cisco
3 134 (12.36%) VMware
4 85 (7.84%) Fortinet
5 80 (7.38%) Aruba
6 78 (7.20%) Meraki
7 66 (6.09%) Apple
7 66 (6.09%) Google
7 66 (6.09%) Palo Alto
8 56 (5.17%) Juniper
9 48 (4.43%) Ruckus Wireless
10 40 (3.69%) HP
11 39 (3.60%) Veeam
12 34 (3.14%) Citrix
13 31 (2.86%) CheckPoint
14 26 (2.40%) Nokia
15 22 (2.03%) Draytek
16 20 (1.85%) Sophos
17 19 (1.75%) EMC
18 18 (1.66%) Ekahau