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 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 209 283 304
Rank change year-on-year +74 +21 -39
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 128 20 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.93% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.69% 1.16% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 52 6 53
10th Percentile £36,750 £22,125 £24,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £26,188 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £36,054 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.52% +14.46% -3.08%
75th Percentile £51,125 £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 1,665 1,721 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.05% 20.26% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 724 1,085
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £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 £59,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,850 £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 9 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 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
West Midlands +82 106 £48,500 +65.81% 3
East Midlands -23 22 £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 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.06%) Azure
2 12 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.34%) AWS
3 3 (2.34%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.56%) Mimecast
4 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 71 (55.47%) Network Security
2 67 (52.34%) Internet
3 62 (48.44%) LAN
4 52 (40.63%) WAN
5 41 (32.03%) SD-WAN
6 32 (25.00%) MPLS
7 27 (21.09%) BGP
7 27 (21.09%) OSPF
8 16 (12.50%) Firewall
9 13 (10.16%) VPN
10 10 (7.81%) TCP/IP
10 10 (7.81%) VoIP
11 9 (7.03%) SAN
11 9 (7.03%) VLAN
11 9 (7.03%) Wireless
12 7 (5.47%) EIGRP
12 7 (5.47%) HSRP
12 7 (5.47%) Spanning Tree
12 7 (5.47%) VRRP
12 7 (5.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.56%) Power BI
General
1 21 (16.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.03%) Retail
3 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.78%) Automotive
4 1 (0.78%) Law
4 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (57.81%) Support Engineer
2 66 (51.56%) IT Engineer
3 65 (50.78%) IT Support
3 65 (50.78%) IT Support Engineer
4 36 (28.13%) Analyst
4 36 (28.13%) Network Analyst
5 34 (26.56%) Network Operations Analyst
5 34 (26.56%) Operations Analyst
6 13 (10.16%) Senior
7 11 (8.59%) Network Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 9 (7.03%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (7.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (50.78%) Driving Licence
1 65 (50.78%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.47%) FMCG
3 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.34%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 69 (53.91%) Windows
2 66 (51.56%) Linux
3 4 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.56%) Android
4 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.56%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.56%) VMS
4 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.03%) Computer Science
2 70 (54.69%) ITIL
2 70 (54.69%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (50.78%) Asset Management
3 65 (50.78%) IT Asset Management
3 65 (50.78%) Mentoring
3 65 (50.78%) Network Management
4 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (7.81%) Systems Engineering
6 9 (7.03%) Network Architecture
6 9 (7.03%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (6.25%) Change Management
7 8 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (5.47%) Business Analysis
8 7 (5.47%) Demand Management
8 7 (5.47%) High Availability
8 7 (5.47%) Project Delivery
8 7 (5.47%) Release Management
9 6 (4.69%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (3.91%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (81.25%) Cisco Certification
2 101 (78.91%) CCNP
3 92 (71.88%) CCNA
4 73 (57.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 73 (57.03%) Degree
5 68 (53.13%) MCSE
5 68 (53.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (50.78%) LPIC
6 65 (50.78%) MCP
7 27 (21.09%) CCIE
8 25 (19.53%) CCDP
9 7 (5.47%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 5 (3.91%) JNCIA
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.56%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (1.56%) MCSA
13 1 (0.78%) CWNA
13 1 (0.78%) HNC
13 1 (0.78%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.56%) GDPR
1 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.34%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (68.75%) Cisco
2 79 (61.72%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.16%) VMware
4 11 (8.59%) Sophos
5 9 (7.03%) Citrix
5 9 (7.03%) HP
5 9 (7.03%) Juniper
5 9 (7.03%) Veeam
6 8 (6.25%) Ekahau
7 6 (4.69%) Meraki
8 4 (3.13%) Google
8 4 (3.13%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.34%) Apple
10 2 (1.56%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.56%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.56%) Snow
10 2 (1.56%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.78%) MikroTik
11 1 (0.78%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.78%) Zscaler